Adventures with Mom and Dad - Aeroe Island DK

Mom and Dad finally made it over to Europe!  They came for a 3 week vacation and I went and met them every chance I got.  When they first got here I went to Billund to pick them up and drove them through the flat Danish countryside to get home.  Was funny to see their first reaction was much like mine. "This seems a lot like Oregon".  The climate is very similar in the spring/summer/fall and the rolling green fields are very familiar  :-)

For the first couple days they stayed with us in Aarhus to get their bearings and get over jet lag a bit.  Their days were spent wandering around the town and just checking things out.  Was so nice to have them here, Warms my heart to have my family so close for a while!!  (just missing Kins, hopefully she gets to make it over here in the spring next year!!)

After a couple days they headed over to Aeroe Island, a quaint island in the Southern part of Denmark.  They had one night there alone to get settled before Nate and I headed down to crash the party.

My chauffeur - Euro Nate (don't worry, I popped his collar to be funny, he hasn't really been ruined over here totally yet)  ;-p

We spent the whole weekend riding bikes around, and walking around, and drinking tea and playing cards :-)  Mom and Dad had the best B & B owned by a very friendly English woman who would serve tea and cookies to you in the afternoon whenever you made it back.  Even though Nate and I were not staying there she still gave us tea and biscuits too.  And gave all of us enough left over breakfast bread and meats/cheese to make little sandwiches to eat for lunch so we didn't even have to worry about that.  So if anyone goes to this island (which is totally beautiful and was an amazing place to spend the weekend!!!), stay at Pension Vestergade 44 B&B, you won't regret it.

The cute little cobblestone streets around the little sleepy town. 

 Nate doing a little happy jig once we got there.

View from Mom and Dad's little nook at the top of the B&B

 Bike ride beginning, weather was nice

 Meandering through the canola fields

 Weather starting to turn nasty

 Evening walk out to the little beach huts.  These little huts lined the beach.  I guess they are packed full in the summer when the weather is nice.  This sleepy little town turns into a much more lively social party spot.  We were told these little places were very expensive to buy, and then you had to pay a lease fee each year for them or something.  So would be really nice to have to be able to store your stuff and be able to get out of the sun when it is hot.. but still seemed like an unreasonable expense... guess you'd have to be pretty loaded to own one  ;-) 

 Very cute though, really wanted one.  ;-)  Mom and dad were going to pretend like this is where I was going to be staying when I got there... but were going to pick one that looked more like a shed without so many windows so it did not look so wonderful.

 Now now Dad, you can't have one either.

 Windmill!!!!

 Not sure why I am making beaver face.. but is a nice pic of Nate  :-)

 Howdy Jim Dear, now who do you think I get my dorkiness from?

 Oh yes, hello Nate, so friendly

 I am glad you think you are so funny....

 True Love at it's finest - picture perfect

 We had to take a break to feed the horses some snacks of course.  They were very cute.  Funny that horses have very different personalities too, there were some that were much more aggressive/greedy and wanted to hog all the treats.  We made them share though  ;-)

 Best Danish made IPA we have found yet, Nate was in love

 Yep, back to being friendly again... bang bang

Was a great weekend, I would love to go back to this island one day, it's just too bad it takes ~3+ hours to get there between the drive and the ferry ride over there... Sunday I headed down to Germany for a compliance visit for work for a few days, then I headed down to Italy to meet them in Cinque Terre for a long weekend!  But that will have to be a story for another time  :-D