Keropie's Cuties: Denmark, the home of the Kingaroo..

Roderick scored a week off work so from the 4th to the 10th of September we hired a very noice car (which was meant to be a Merc, but we scored a swish Volvo instead) and drove 8 hours. We landed in a seaside town called Sondervig on the west coast which was amidst kilometers of grass covered sand dunes with gorgeous native flowers growing in the green. Julia had rented us a gorgeous holiday house complete with sauna (which we didn't get around to using) and jacuzzi in the sand dunes. The air was fresh, the breeze sometimes rough but as we discovered necessary because when the breeze wasn't there the mozzie and flies were! You couldn't see the beach from where we were as the sand dunes were so high and numerous. The kiddies and I went for a walk a few times through them and the view from the top of them down to the beach was gorgeous. The weather varied hour by hour, sometimes sunny and warm, sometimes torrential rain, sometimes windy - however whatever we were dealt with, we took advantage of it. During the rainy periods we renewed our love of Uno and discovered Trionimos by a warmly lit fire. When the breeze would blow we would be out flying our sporty kite (ask Damien how well he can fly it LOL)
The Danish beach was beautiful. After sliding down the sand dune on our feet to reach the beach, we were then faced with a path as far as the eye could see of rocks. Really nice smooth rocks of different varieties - like granite, rocks with small fossils and amber....lots and lots of amber! Amber is everywhere here in abundance and is made into jewelery. Julia spoilt the girls with adorable matching amber necklaces and me with a nice polished rock to adorn my neck. Ethan was given a specimen fit for a geologist.
Everywhere we went, Danish flags flew high and proud and after a little while even I felt a fondness for the red and white and was jealous that Mary married Frederick and not me! Unfortunately we didn't run into the royals because A. they were in Australia at the time, and B. Copenhagen is on the east side of the country and we weren't. Maybe next time.
Julia has been coming to Denmark every year since she was a child and knows where the good stuff is - including where to source the yummiest bread on a daily basis, topped with the most divine fruit filled, red strawberry conserve you've ever had pass your lips. Rod liked to devour freshly made liver pate everyday with the fried crisp onions and pickled cucumber slices - which too was surprisingly delicious. Hot dogs here were made in a similar way and would have to be the best hot dogs world over (I feel qualified to make that statement now). We discovered a new sauce called Romalade (sp??) that is a must when you have hot chips.
Roderick and Damien attempted fishing a few times. Unfortunately for them, I still hold the record for the most fish caught (back home in Forster, 2007). Damien did catch something really excessively boney, perhaps a herring. He said it tasted OK.

During our week, the kiddies were spoilt with Lego. Rod n' Jules got them some as their 2008 birthday gifts. Ashie picked some new Dinosaur Duplo and Aurora and Ethan picked some Castle Lego. Then we all got obsessed with wanting more Lego because they all sat and played so nice with it. So chores were decided on and so was an excessive pocket money amount on a daily basis to reach the required amount to get the Lego they wanted. I've never seen my kids so happy to do dishes and sweep the floor. In addition to their chore fund raising effort, Aurora happen to lose her second tooth while we are on holidays (she lost another one shortly before back in Berlin) which she added to the kitty and the Chicken Gods proved their worth as well. Yes we have truly embraced life as we knew it here on the Danish Coast, taken a story Julia told us and run with it and now we worship the Chicken Gods.
Apparently when you find a rock on the beach with a hole it and place it with something metallic, the Chicken Gods will give you money! By golly, it worked! Who would have thought!!
So by the end of our week in Denmark we now have an excessive amount of Lego to bring home from the home of Lego.

All in all Denmark was gorgeous, we all loved it. Thank you Rod and Julia for showing us your world!

Once again, randomly placed photographs

This is Damien flying the kite. This is as high as Damien can get it.

This is me flying the kite. Notice the lack of it's presence in the photograph. Could it be that it was too high in the sky to fit in? Perhaps...(yes hehe)

It's the girls, being girls!

Going for a walk in the nearby town of Ringkobing which was beautiful.

The holiday house we stayed in.

Damien driving the Volvo on the opposite side to what we are used to.

Playing Uno.

"Bling Bling", the Chicken Gods gifts have arrived. Bless the Danes as some of their money has holes in it, perfect for wearing around your neck.

At the beach there are some bunkers from WWII, apparently sometimes they can be completely covered with sand. They were built to protect the coast line here by the Germans however were never involved in conflict.

The kite we bought that only I can fly proved to be too strong for the children so we got them their own lighter weight kites which flew really well, even with no breeze worth mentioning.

Julia and the kiddies building their Lego together.

A view of the dunes from the top of the light house. Ethan was our photographer at the lighthouse, except of course not the photo's he features in. He did a great job!

This is the first light house we have ever been to the top of. Here are the kiddies sitting right at the top where the light is.

The light house.

Ethan on the beach, isn't he handsome?

And my cutie Ashie!

On the way back we got caught in a downpour that got quite bad at one point we had to hide under a house. But the kite worked for some of the walk back.