Going back to England!

OH YEAH! I am so excited, Jamey and I are moving back to England! Copenhagen has been great, but I just really loved England. I believe I will be able to get a job there, and I am going to go back to school in the Fall. We will be busy the next few weeks packing and getting ready for the move. Moving is no fun, but it will be great once it's all said and done. The weather here in Copenhagen is nice today. Sunny and almost above freezing! ~Jac

Bicycling

Today's subject is bicycling because I felt like I needed to blog about that bit of Danish culture. Tonight, Jamey and I rode our bikes to the gym. It was funny because as we were returning home and putting our bikes away in the shed, Jamey asked me "If someone had asked you, when you were 23 years old, what you would be doing five years from then, would you have ever thought that it would be riding your bike home from the gym, in the snow, in Denmark?". So I stopped to think about it, and , no, I would have never guessed that. It is really amazing how things turn out. The bicycle thing is really awesome here. Neither Jamey, nor I have a car. We rely on the train/bus, our bikes, or good ol' pat and charlie to get us everywhere we need to go. It's really neat, because sometimes we will have a "date" where we ride our bikes about 5 minutes into town to have a hotdog and see a movie. It's sort of one of "our little things we do". So there's no more opening the car door for me. It's now more like him locking my bicycle wheel for me. Just as sweet, yet, different. Life in Denmark, gotta love it!

Happy Birthday Brooke!

Today is Brooke's, one of my best friends, birthday. Happy Birthday to ya if you are reading this. That's one of the really hard things about living in Europe, the fact that I miss out on special occasions of my friends and family from back home. But then I think about it, and even if I were in NC right now, would I see Brooke and celebrate her birthday with her today, a Thursday? Probably not. She would be in class, 3 hours away from me, and I would be busy working. So it seems like it sucks to be away, but it's really not as bad as it seems. It will just make the future birthdays that we celebrate together even more special!

The weather here today has been weird. When I woke up this morning, it was snowing. Now, the sun is shining bright. Hope it stays this way.

I had to go to the US Embassy today to have more pages added to my passport. Yep, I have so many stamps in there that I was running out of pages! Pretty impressive, isn't it?

Yesterday was the first day of Lent. Now, I'm not Catholic, or any of the denominations that practice Lent, but I've decided I'm going to give it a go. From yesterday until Easter Sunday, I have given up CHOCOLATE! I'll definately enjoy my Cadbury Easter Eggs this year, won't I? I'll try to keep you posted on how I'm doing along the way. For now, I think I'll go and have some nice grapes for a snack.

Happy Mardi Gras!

So today is Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday). I really wonder what it is like today, and what it has been like for the past couple of weeks in New Orleans. It must be so sad there, without all the street parties and celebrations that the people of New Orleans have become accustomed to. I'm sure they still "celebrated", but I just can't imagine that it even came close to being the same. Will it ever be the same again?

As I am sitting here, in Copenhagen, it is cloudy and dreary outside. It was snowing pretty hard earlier this morning, but it has slowed down to just a few flurries now. It's really cold, so I'm procrastinating on going out to the grocery store. I miss the sunshine, but it will be here again soon.

The winter has actually been pretty easy here. From the beginning of November until the end of December, it's "Christmas in Denmark". There are lights everywhere, festivals, Christmas Markets, Tivoli is open, and just "Hygge" (Danish word for coziness). January and February are tough though, because all the Christmas lights are gone, festivals, etc..., and we are left with very short, cold, dreary days.

So, the spring and summer months are certainly anticipated by the Danes, and even more so by the expats living in Denmark. Everyone might think of England as always being rainy and cloudy, but if I remember correctly, the sun shined more in England than in Denmark. We shall see what March has in store for us!

My first blog entry

This is my first blog entry. Today marks the 1 year anniversary of my move to Europe. I lived in England for 6 months, and have been in Denmark since August. England was amazing. Jamey and I have traveled so much since we have been over here. We visited Paris, Venice, Amsterdam, Olde (Germany), several cities in England such as Reading (where we lived), London, York, Bath, just to name a few. We visited Zell and Vienna, both in Austria, Prague, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia. We just recently visited Oslo, Norway for some skiing to celebrate my birthday. We have visited several towns in Denmark (We live in Copenhagen, Jamey works in Hillerod). We visited Ireland, and Scotland also. In addition to Olde, I also visited Berlin, Germany. Jamey has also been to Poland, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. We still have lots of traveling ahead of us!

Today was such a beautiful day in Copenhagen. After so many rainy, cloudy, dreary days, it was really nice to see the sun. We had a pretty low key weekend. We spent a lot of time inside, actually, making plans for the future. Anyway, I won't write much for now. Just trying out the whole blog thing.