Thanksgiving and More

The more part of this blog is that the sun came out one day and it was my day off - of which i am thankful for both. Jens asked me if i want to go to Amagerfælled (an old military area). I said yes and that i would make some coffee and take it along in a thermos and we could stop and pick up some danish on the way. There is a large pond in the fields with a few picnic benches and here we stopped to enjoy the sun, the view, the cake and coffee. Bounty enjoys a bite too.


After cake and coffee we continued on with our walk. We went up the hill to find out what the heck Lady Liberty was doing here at Amagerfælled. I thought it was pretty neat. I figured it must have something to do with the climate meetings that are soon going to be taking place at the convention center that is near by and also in the military fields. Then we got close enough to see that in fact, inscribed on the tablet was: 'Freedom to Pollute'. Uhhh......okayyyyy?
Here is what i could find from the net. I guess it's pretty extensive but it seems to be a bit of a yawn. Of course i have only glanced at it so what do i know. But give it a click if you want to find out more. There will probably be more photos on the site once the meetings actually take place. There already seems to be some pix now on a second site. Or if you want you can go directly to the pix of Lady Liberty. You will probably be able to find a lot on the net yourself.


So my good ol' American friend, Dan, who moved just around the block from me, invited me to Thanksgiving dinner. He was having 17 guest in all. 5 of us are American and the other 12 are Danes and Swedes. But for some reason 2 of the US folks didn't show up. Jens came alone which i was really glad but just shortly after we got there he ended up going back home. I was so excited about this dinner party being so close to home that it would enable Jens to join in and if it got to be too much, he could just simply walk home. I had to work that day and when i came home i could see that Jens was not at his peak. But he gave it a really good try and that made me very happy.
Dan was the only one with the camera that evening and he took only 3 shots. Here are 2 of them. I was the last one to the table so Dan stuck the fork and knife into my hands and gave me the job of playing butcher.

I made the salads - 2 different kinds. Dan somehow squeezed 2 big turkeys in his tiny Danish oven and made a to-die-for stuffing and Grandma's Jell-o which every body was raving about. Considering it was just Jell-o, it really was good. Corn, bread, wine,way-delicious pears (the most delicious i have ever tasted and they were from Steffen's back yard in Sweden), mashed potatoes with garhhhhhhhlic and more. The other American, Brent, was supposed to make fresh cranberries but forgot and ended up making apple pie and sweet potato's instead. Dan had a can of Ocean Spray cranberries and we split it 15 ways - and there was still a spoonful or two left over.
Dan also made two pumpkin pies. Brent and i were dying to try it. The Danes and Swedes had no idea what it was. Brent kept telling everyone that it has been over 6 years since he has last had pumpkin pie. I can't remember when i last had it, but it's been a while and just writing about it now really makes me want to be there with you at your table for another slice. One of the guest asked if it really comes from pumpkins. I said, - "surrrrrre it does".



see for yourself.