Hotel Domir Odense

... my group had made since the beginning of the tour.

We also had did something else to celebrate our Cast B 2009 boys :) Laura Lynn, our fearless music coordinator, made a video of famous fight scenes for our guys.

Of course the video started off with the "Jack, I'm flying!" scene from Titanic; just to get the boys a little worried about what the video ...

Happy Thanksgiving Day to everyone!

I had a turkey sandwich today... that was the extent of my Thanksgiving Day meal! I was thinking today about how bummed I was to miss out on the stuffing, turkey, mashed potatoes, fresh rolls, pumpkin pie, corn, and of course the chex mix! (a strict Luebke tradition)

But I am in Denmark so I got over it pretty quickly :)

Today I participated in a great regional learning activity. I toured some of Odense, Denmark ...

Hello from Odense, Denmark!

We are only here for about 2 days. We just arrived, have shows on Thursday and Friday, and then leave on Saturday morning for Sweden! Woah! What a whirlwind of travel! 3 countries in one week!

AND I have some great news! My travel blog received an award from TravelPod.com as one of the top ten best travel blogs on the network! Yes! I just got the email today!

Today (Wednesday ...

... with an extensive and beautiful 16th century altarpiece. Then I saw the place of H.C Andersons childhood. He was very poor and lived in a tiny house shared with five other families. The nice lady allowed me to go in for free because I had run out of Danish Krona. I am meeting Australians everywhere.

OK so there's only 8.3 Danish krone to the pound & and we had 3 kids so we always new Denmark was going to be punishingly expensive. However it was worth going, most museums have either cheap entry or low price for kids. Just returned from the Viking open air village in Ribe (Jutland) & the buried ship museum at Ladby in Funen (Fyn). Also the viking ship museum in Roskilde (Sealand).All places were very ...

... of delicious treats from their local bakery! After dinner we had a fun evening of fishing. No fish were caught but we had lots of laughs and no one got a hook in any part of their body! Always a good thing!

The next day we were excited to receive a "day in the life" tour with the Kristensen’s. We visited the world’s largest pig (in our minds, but it was 300kg!) at their grandparents farm and went to ...

... dressing up in the costumes!

Staying here really has solidified our decision to swap houses. You really get to meet some great people and live in communities that give you a sense of how people really live. We love hearing what people have enjoyed about Canada and the funny stories about the differences between our countries. We have gotten many laughs at our own expense trying to figure out certain things that are different ...

...to Denmark.
The original plan was to drive all the way to Copenhagen and stay on a campsite there. But since it rained and rained and rained, we decided to stop earlier and have a good rest before heading to Copenhagen and meeting up with Laurents & Iris at the airport there. We were lucky and found a really nice campsite right at the beach with a view of the Storebaelt Bridge :-)

When I woke up *nd opened the hotel room window, it w*s r*ining outside. P*ssers-by under their umbrell*s, r*indrops on the surf*ce of the w*ter c*n*l *long Abulev*rden, th*t w*s wh*t I could first see on Mond*y morning. However, by the time I h*d my bre*kf*st *nd checked out, the r*in stopped, so I didn't need to worry if I would get wet on my w*y to the r*ilw*y st*tion. For the first time *g*in *fter twenty five ye*rs, I w*s in * possession of *n Inter-R*il tr*in ticket. R*ilw*y network in ...

... Then, at a very very public party, the girl toasted to him something along the lines of, "To Andersen, whom I love like a brother." After the Andersen museum, we went to a town....constructed to look like a town in Andersen's time. It would have been more interesting had I not just been to the Open Air Museum which was much more well done and interesting. Then we went on a guided walk through ...