The Birthday Girl Anina Pedersen. She is 90 and still mentally alert and gets around on her little motorized scooter. She has been helping me with genealogy over many years. I think she has always felt she was my second mother. After my mother died she has taken it upon herself to keep the cousins in touch with each other.
This is Mogens my brother in law. We don't get too many pictures of him because he is always behind the camera. He and my sister put together a beautiful film about my aunts life and also made a photo album for her of her party.
Two of my sisters: Carla in the corner and my youngest sister Ulla in front.
My sister Anni talking to my aunt in her living room.
Picture from the party at the inn.
We spent the night with my cousin Aase and her husband. They have a small farm, and we were treated to a tour of the animals and the peach trees etc. A very nice place. My sister Carla is in the background.
This is the closest I could get to get a picture of all three of my sisters. This is at my sister Anni's apartment.
After we returned from Jutland. Carla had to go check on her horse. While she did that I had fun taking pictures of sheep and lambs. It was the lamming season and there were little lambs everywhere.
There were so many it was hard to get a picture of them all. It was fun to see the little lambs poke the utters of their mothers so the milk would let down. Then when the mothers were tired of the lambs sucking they would just walk off.
We found out it was possible to go in and see the section of Amalienborg palace that is being remodeled for the Crown-prince and his family to live in. It closes in July when they move in. We went in to see it the day before I went home. It was interesting to see they way they had renovated the place. The Crown prince couple likes modern art and they had had different artists paint murals on the walls of several of the rooms. I don't know what they will do if they get tired of some of the pictures. My favorite room was the big state dining room. They had big panels of mirrors that were made to look like frost flowers. It was very elegant. Of course we could only see the public rooms not their private quarters. The Queen lives in one of the other buildings in the palace. There are four buildings surrounding a large square. The palace in right in the center of Copenhagen.
Top picture is of Carla and her son Kenneth in front of the Queens palace. Here Carla and I are in front of the one The Crown Prince will be occupying. Note that the black windows are the windows into the Crown prince's office. It is just a few feet off the sidewalk where anyone can come. Isn't it refreshing not to have secret service people all over the place.
The palace is close to the harbor, and right across from it, is the new Danish Opera house. Finally I have to make a remark about my trip home. I had not been feeling well most of my time in Denmark and wanted to get home. I had planned to go home on Thursday but the flights did not look good out of Copenhagen. So I decided to go home on Wednesday. My trip was uneventful. The first thing I heard on the news the next morning was that most of the European airports were closed because of the volcanic dust from an Icelandic volcano. Airports were closed for 5 days. I feel someone was looking out for me.
