Tuesday, 17 July

Today was the second and final day of our Århus tourist passes, which we used for art museums. First, we went to ARoS, Denmark’s new main art museum, with nine floors and a main spiral staircase. Kudos to Aila, who spent an awfully long time showing us different exhibits, translating from Danish, and giving us histories of many pieces in the museum (such as the interesting horse…). Ines and I decided to go all the way to the top, where there is a roof terrace and a great view of all of Århus. Then, while some went to get lunch and go shopping (Alex and Harald bought some more matching T-shirts…wery cute), the rest of us saw the Århus Kunst (art) building, which had a really cool exhibit about children and war.
We had been wanting to see the Harry Potter movie, so this morning we had booked tickets for an afternoon showing. Five of us went for that while the rest went shopping some more.
We all met back at Aila’s place for dinner, which Liselotte once again prepared and which once again impressed all of us. In the evening we finally, after being occupied all day, had some time to relax by practicing karate and wrestling on the beach, emailing home, sleeping, or doing whatever else needed to get done. This night was Jenny and Harald’s last night before they left in the morning, and we all felt that the reunion was in a way winding down, so we wanted to have some fun while not all, but at least most of us were still here. We had a great time and wound down with some good ol’ episodes of South Park In the end, we went to bed early enough to get up to see Jenny off at 8 am!

Love,
Dana
Minneapolis, USA

P.S.
A million bajillion gazillion infinillion apologies for taking so long to get this blog posted. I know you all have been waiting on bated breath to know what’s been going on. So, sorry again. I hope it lives up to your expectations…

P.P.S.
When Joline and Darya left, they said that the people who leave take 25% of the grief and those who stay take 75% of it. It must be true because the house seems so eerily empty without you all in it; we keep expecting to meet up with at least five more people. Just thought I'd let y'all know, we all miss you like hell.