I will probably say it 1000 times before we move again but I love the area where our house is located. I love it! I am not sure if it's because I have always wanted to live near woods, hills, trails and creeks or because when I am out on the trail, I feel 'normal'--like I could be anywhere. I am not struggling to understand spoken danish, stammering "Jeg taler engelsk bedre end dansk" (I have a feeling these words will be used quite often in the coming months..years..), or attempting to differentiate between the 20 kroner (approx $3.75) and 10 kroner coins while staring into my now stuffed-to-the-brim coin purse.
Side story to go with the money here-I went into the gas station last night to buy ice cream and a magazine--a danish magazine. I didn't say anything to the girl that was ringing me up but when I began fishing the 80 kroner out of my coin purse, it became painfully obvious that I was not all that familiar with danish money, or danish for that matter. I'm sure as I left, she had to wonder why in the world I would be buying a danish magazine...and the ice cream. Well that was to sooth my depression over paying around $15 for stuff that in America, would have cost about $8 :)
So back to where we live. As I was saying, I love it. I am just another person out for a jog with my dog. No one gives me a second look. I have a feeling that scout and I will be spending a lot of time on the trails...
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| It's not difficult to see that Hans Christian Andersen had plenty of fairy tale inspiration all around him. I know he didn't write Little Red Riding Hood but sometimes running through here, I think about her...skipping through the forest to grandmother's house (which is probably the house with the thatched roof at the end of this particular trail!) |
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| Beginning of fall colors |
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| Perfect morning (not a gravestone behind ed in case you were wondering) |
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| In front of our house--scout smells rabbit, which is why he is licking his chops |
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| Scout, my running buddy |
How lovely!
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