Adventures in Aarhus

This is a blog to capture the adventures of Ken, Leysia, Max and Lilja while spending their first sabbatical in Aarhus, Denmark.

Friday, July 07, 2006

Inga's Party

Inga's Party

Inga Pedersen, a teacher at Lilja's pre-school in Aarhus, invited us over for a farewell party on July 4th. So, while we didn't celebrate U.S. Independence Day this year, we DID go to a party. (July 4th is just another day here in Denmark!) Inga is also the woman who saved our bacon by coming over to our apartment at 1 AM on June 11th to watch Max and Lilja when L. went into labor with Miles.

We arrived at Inga's lovely home (and garden) at around 3:30 PM and Inga spoiled us by making delicious waffles topped with a hazelnut chocolate sauce and ice cream! The kids then played in the yard either making stuff with Lego bricks or shooting Papa with water guns that Inga supplied.

Inga then lit up her grill and cooked up the salmon fillets that we had picked up at the fish market down at the harbor and followed that with chicken and pølse (think sausage). Everything tasted wonderful!

We finished by taking pictures of Inga with Miles and Lilja. Inga and Lilja grew quite close this year, so it was good that they had a chance to spend some one-on-one time!

Tusind Tak Inga!

Ken

2 Comments:

At 9:39 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The celebration in Rebild Hills, Denmark, is the largest Fourth of July party outside of the United States, so, no, the 4th of July is not "just another day in Denmark."

 
At 10:28 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

Interesting. None of the Danes we knew mentioned the event at Rebild Hills to us! Why would Danes celebrate a U.S. holiday?

 

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