Tivoli Gardens

After lunch we had a date at Tivoli with a couple of other friends, and their kids. Last time we were here was also three years ago.
Even though it was a Saturday afternoon during summer holidays, it was actually not too bad with the queues. We went on quite a few of the rides. We didn't go on this one though, one of the 2011 news - it looked horrendous, an upside down and rotating airplane going around and around!






Wise from our somewhat terrifying experience with 'Tranan' at Skara Sommarland, we stayed with the rather peaceful rides!
Here's Cecilie and Lucas in the classic 'Farfar's bilar', a ride that used to be MY favorite when I was a kid:









A little break to sugarfy the kids..:









Waiting patiently in line:








Katja and Dorthe:








It's really nice that all our friends here now have kids (or kids on the way) too. We were always hanging with this group of friends when we lived in Copenhagen, in kind of a "Friends-series" kind of way - and now there is a "Skygang" 2nd generation!
It's very cool!

We finished off this great day with a BBQ at the Viby residence in Frederiksberg, somewhat a summer tradition by now! Yummy food, some of their left-over wedding wine (!), nice conversation and many laughs.

Some of us got a cool ride back to the Metro at the end of the night! Thanks for a really nice day guys!

2008 in review - Part 3

Here comes part 3 of our year in review.

July:

The kids went horseback riding for the first time in Brunei, at the Royal stables at Jerudong Park. It was a hit:



Lucas finished school in the beginning of July with a big Kindy party:



We finally moved out of Rimba (after 11 1/2 months!) and into our new house, where we are very happy:



And then we were off on holiday, a long one - first we went to the UK, to see our good friends there, Jason, Maki & Wataru; Anna, David & Cameron; Chris, Michelle, Griffin & Hugo and Andrew, James & Thomas:





And then we were off to Denmark, to see both Danish and Swedish friends (too many to mention, sorry). We did so many nice things, went to Tivoli, Nyhavn, Legoland, Ströget, the beach, had bbqs etc:















We also went a few days to Jylland, and saw our friends the Petersens there in their new house; and also my friend Kamilla who had recently moved over there too:





August:

In August we left Denmark for Sweden, and had a nice time with Mormor and Morfar. Had crayfish party with the family, and went to Skara Sommarland. First time for Nathan and Linnea:





When Nathan left, I went to Stockholm to hang out with my girlfriends for a weekend:



Then Mormor and Morfar took the kids and me to Karlstad, to surprise visit my friend Linda and see her new baby:



And then we went from there to Astrid Lindgrens Värld in Småland - a superb day the kids still talk about!



Back home it was time for the boat to go on it's "maiden" voyage:



And back in Brunei again, both kids started school, Lucas in Reception and Linnea in Nursery:



September:

In September we celebrated the Chinese Moon Cake Festival at school:



Lucas started doing an after-school-activity, Bugs & Microscopes:



We were all out on the boat for the first time:



We celebrated Nathan's 35th birthday:



Anna and I did a presentation at a Montessori school, about Sweden:

Dejlige Danmark

Yesterday we spent an absolutely stunning day in central Copenhagen. The weather was gorgeous, the company was lovely and the kids were as happy as. Here is Lucas, having a pölse (=hot dog).



We followed the tourist route a bit, starting out with a bit of shopping along Köbmagergade and Ströget, having lunch in Nyhavn...







...(yes, I got my salad!), some more shopping and then we finished off with a short visit to Tivoli.



We had a big ice cream and went for a few rides. The merry-go-round and the Veteranbiler, of course...





We even met Santa yesterday!! Actually, a whole bunch of them, as it was the yearly Santa Convention at Bakken this week and they went parading in Ströget.



Lucas was asleep unfortunately, but Linnea was in front row and got loads of candy, a balloon and even got to shake Santas hand!



After that full on day, we went home to our friends place for a BBQ down in their garden.





Fab meal, good wine and totally relaxed as the kids could just run around and play as they pleased. This day could hardly have been any better - just perfect!