Make The Yuletide Gay

We just finished watching the movie called Make the Yuletide Gay.  What is Yuletide? - asked our French friends, Patrick and Fabian from Paris, who are here for the weekend helping us celebrate Christmas.  Yuletide is the English spelling of the Scandinavian word Juletid and it means Christmas time.  The award winning 2009 film is a cute story about 2 collage boys spending Christmas together with one of the boy's very crazy family.  You can easily get your own copy for just a few $ from Amazon.com

OK - Fabian and Patrick arrived to Copenhagen Thursday on Air France at 2:30 just as I was getting off of work.  It was such perfect timing.  By the time I had changed from my work clothes to my street clothes and moved the car from the personnel parking lot to the passenger pick up parking lot, I had to wait a total of 7 or 8 minutes.

The day they arrived, I made the guys a nice birthday BBQ dinner.  Fabian had his birthday on December 5th. After dinner we did fireworks and had a big slice of b-day cake.


We have finished our dinner and now we are digging into some very tasty birthday cake.

The next day we went to see all the Christmas decorations at Tivoli and then we had a typical Danish Christmas dinner at one of the restaurants near by. 

Here are a few pix from today.............

 

 

After Tivoli we went to Axelborg Bodega for a traditional Danish lunch/dinner.

 The following day, the plan was to take the boat from our apartment to the restaurant in Nyhavn.  But Patrick and Fabian wanted to start the day with "just a little" breakfast and then do some down town shopping.  Instead - Jens and I took the boat to meet Patrick and Fabian as they were already in town.  Here is Jens standing at the dock as the boat is approaching. This boat stop is just out in front of our apartment.

 Here we are now at the restaurant Skipperkroen in Nyhavn.  We just sat down and ordered an aperitif.

 Jul i Nyhavn - Christmas at the New Harbor....... with our stomachs full from a delicious meal, and hands filled with bags of down-town shopping, we now head back to our apartment.  At the end of the harbor is the boat stop and the 4 of us sail home. Click here for 10 sec. youtube clip in Nyhavn or click here for 2 minutes, 26 seconds youtube clip in Nyhavn.

 Inside the boat - it's only 3 stops and we are home.

We step off of the boat and walk 1 minute along the waterfront to snap this Kodak moment.

 Once inside the apartment I light the candles on the tree for just a moment - don't wanna burn the house down.

CLICK THIS LINK TO SEE ALL 109 PIX OF X-MAS IN TIVOLI

Canarian Birthdays

Jens and I did a quick and simple birthday at home in DK but our major celbration took place once again on the island of Gran Canaria.  Since we have been there 1,000,000,000 or more, the camera stayed in the hotel room most of the time.  But I did manage to snap a few pix.

 Enjoying a cocktail and late afternoon sunshine on the porch of our bungalow.

 This is the view from our porch.

 These are the flowers in front of our bungalow complex.

 The only time we took our pants on was when we were going out to eat.

 But before hitting the restaurant, we need to work up an appetite.

 Jens checks out his coordination.

 Now it's time for a birthday dinner at our favorite restaurant.

 Jumbo shrimp - there not really that big!

We think it is funny that Pia has her own Danish restaurant on Gran Canaria - Danish food is not really what one thinks about when going out to eat on the Spanish island.