Sunny Morning!?!?

Today is the first day I have been here in Denmark where I woke up and the sun was actually out! Usually, the sun does not rise until about 8-8:30, and by then I am already up, dressed, and in Copenhagen going to class! It felt really nice to sleep in and just take it easy today! I woke up, got dressed, and then helped my host family clean the house. Usually they have a cleaning lady (who is apparently very talkative so I'm excited to meet her!) but she is on vacation in...wait for it...Vietnam (wowza!) So the whole family got together and put away groceries (Peter went shopping that morning), cleaned the floors, scrubbed the kitchen, bathrooms, etc. It was pretty fun because we were all together and were making jokes and all that fun stuff!

For the rest of the day, I sat by the fire and read, me, Anne, Peter, and Malou went for a walk around the lake, and we did lots of eating! We also watched the championship game for handball as the Danish tried to defend their title of reigning European Handball Champions from those slobs from Iceland! I actually don't know who won because I left the game with like 10 minutes left and then my mom called, but it was very exciting to watch. Every time the Danes scored a goal they played "Sweet Caroline" which I laughed pretty hard at!

Food log:

Breakfast: apple

Lunch: "smorrebrod" is the typical lunch for a Dane, it is simply an open-faced sandwhich with Danish bread. So, today we made smorrebrods with scrambled eggs or smoked salmon (I know salmon is the thing to eat here but I had eggs b/c I'm not a huge fan of salmon to begin with and unless uncooked fish is hidden inside rice and seaweed, I get a little squeamish...). We also had leftover homemade tomato soup with pasta in it, which was absolutely fantastic!

Dinner: pork tenderloin wrapped in Danish bacon (not like American bacon, maybe a cross between our bacon and Canadian bacon, but different...) on top of pasta with a mushroom, cheese, cream sauce and steamed broccoli. Then, for dessert we had crepes (which they just call pancakes) with Danish ice cream or "soft ice" which is kind of like frozen cool whip, sugar, and jam.

If any of my lovely readers have any suggestions for different foods I can make for my host family, I would greatly appreciate it. They keep telling me that if I ever want to take the reigns and become head chef for the night they would buy all the ingredients and we could all cook but I don't really know what to cook them (as many of you may know, my specialty is Kraft mac and cheese, which 1. they don't sell here and 2. my health conscious/ vitamin-loving family probably wouldn't enjoy that). I've been trying to think of what I eat when I'm home but my host mom can't eat dairy (though she has a milk substitute) but literally everything we eat has butter and/or cheese...lol