Denmark Trip - Day 5 - Tved, DK to Aalborg, DK
Summer House, Tved -- Weather sunny to part cloudy. Lotte, Carol, and I planned to go watch Erik compete at the Taekwondo competition in Aalborg. Marie will also be going. So, the plan was to meet Marie somewhere along the way and carpool in her car. Lotte said we should leave a little early so she could do some errands along the way. Plus, we needed to drop Gismo off at Erik’s place. Our phone cellular service was barely working so Carol called T-Mobile. They reset our cellular service which totally disconnected both of our phones and left us wondering what to do next. Our first thought was maybe we just need to reboot our phones. Thankfully, that worked, and our cellular service came back. Ironically, after rebooting, we received a text message saying we need to reboot our phones for our cellular service to work, 😕.
Carol and I walked to Lotte’s house from the summer house and had coffee and muffins with Lotte. We left to see Erik’s Taekwondo competition at around 10:30 AM and stopped at a jewelry shop where Lotte looked for a gift for a school colleague. We continued our road trip to a highway rest stop where we met Marie and switched to her car for the rest of the trip to Aalborg. In Aalborg, we stopped at Erik’s place and dropped off Gismo and continued to the “Gigantium” arena where the Taekwondo competition was being held. Lotte called Erik’s phone and arranged to meet him near the entrance. Erik said he would be doing single and double competitions a little later which gave us some time to get food (French hotdogs) and drinks. After getting our food and drinks, we found a place to sit near where Erik would be competing. Erik did very well and won several awards.
After Erik finished, we watched some other team competitions and eventually left to pick up Lotte’s car and carpool to Marie’s place in Aarhus (Carol with Marie and me with Lotte). We all hung out for a while at Marie’s place in her back garden where she showed us her cool little greenhouse and later watched her open some gifts including a few vinyl records (The Worst Of Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac - Rumours, and a Best of 1960’s record set).We left Marie’s and on the way back to Lotte’s house, stopped at the Mols Bierge National Park Visitor Center. The Visitor Center is in an ancient building with huge wooden beams and cool displays that describe the Mols Bierge National Park and Kalo Castle. After that, we stopped at the Mols Organic Butik (Store) and bought some cheese and a few gifts for folks back home. The store seemed strange because there wasn’t anyone there to take money. So, it depended on people being honest and paying for what you take by putting money in a little cash box or by using a phone app. Amazingly, Lotte said this was a very common way to do business in Denmark.
We returned to Lotte’s place where we snacked on bread, crackers, cheese, beer, or vino. Carol gave Lotte two puff quilts she made. The quilts were a little different than her normal quilts because each individual square was stuffed with batting rather than the whole quilt being stuffed. Lotte and Carol prepared a veggie omelet for dinner and after that, Carol and I returned to the summer house.
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