Danish Birthday Parties and Hamlet's Castle

Day 2 here in Denmark! I blew off registration this morning because my host family said it was useless and I could get all of the info tomorrow. So, instead I went to a Danish birthday party!

Last night I went to bed at like 10:30 because I literally couldn't keep my eyes open, and then woke up around 2am and was wide awake (that is like 7pm Chi time). So, I read until about 5am and then fell back asleep. Both of my alarms failed me this morning, so I woke up at 11:30am when Henrik knocked on my door and said we were leaving for the party in 30min (oops!)

Anyway, as soon as we got to the party, we ate lunch and just talked. The conversation was in English about half the time and the other half Danish - just because everyone in DK may have the ability to speak English, they don't necessarily choose to speak it (though they try for my benefit!). The guest list included my whole host family, Peter's (the dad) brother, sister-in-law, and one of their two sons, and Peter's sister-in-law who hosted the party and 2 of her 3 children (one of them being the birthday boy). It also included Malou, a cocker spaniel owned by brother #1 and one VERY weird looking dog that I have never seen before (it was so ugly that it was really cute) owned by the sister-in-law. After lunch we drove to Hamlet's castle and saw that, then walked along the beach at the castle and saw Sweden across the Sound (about 3km away). After that they took me on a little driving tour of the city we were in (Helsingborg...I think). It is one of the oldest towns in DK and has all of the original buildings because in the 70's when DK was rebuilding everything the town was very poor so couldn't remodel (thank goodness!)

When we got back from our walk we had rolls with either chocolate, Danish butter, or jam on them, and then cake, and then finished watching Inglorious Basterds with Danish subtitles!

Tonight we are just taking it easy, everyone is going back to school and work tomorrow morning so we are all just hanging out. We watched a British TV show called "Super Skinny and Super Fat" (or something like that) where they make anorexic girls eat and fat people diet, it was pretty entertaining!

Food log:

Breakfast: apple (b/c I slept through breakfast)

Lunch: rice with a type of stew on top. The stew was unbelievably delicious. It was brown with meat, carrots, chick peas, some sort of fruit, and some other stuff. We also had salad, also really good with other stuff I didn't recognize, and nan bread with like olive oil, salt, parsley, and other seasonings.

Cake time: homemade rolls/biscuits with milk chocolate on top (the choc was a very thin "bark" type deal) and then bday cake with like raspberry filling (kind of like a pudding, light pink in color) with whipped cream frosting and sprinkles.

Dinner: curry flavored soup with bread and fresh squeezed oj (orange juice is apparently not a breakfast item, but rather something you drink whenever simply for the vitamins).