Our very first visitor (a one Mr. David Stone) arrived on Thursday! I picked him up from the train station in the afternoon, and what fun we've been having since. On Saturday, Andrew, Dave, and I explored a viking burial ground located about twenty minutes outside the city. We caught a bus for about five minutes, and then unnecessarily walked for about fifteen-twenty minutes, not realizing that the bus would have taken us the rest of the way there; but, it was actually a very nice walk as this weekend was uncharacteristically warm for Denmark (I think it broke 75 degrees on Saturday!). It was a very interesting park with burial sites, foundations of where their homes were, even a field that was preserved in sand from hundreds of years ago, and a replica of the type of thatched barn that they would have used. Also, roaming throughout the entire park were several goats that live there.
On Sunday, we caught the bus to Hals on the east coast of Denmark where we spent the afternoon at the beach. The weather was nice, but not all that hot, so Andrew was the only one brave enough to go all the way in (I only got as far in as my feet and spent the rest of the time sunbathing).
This morning, Dave and I visited Andrew at work and I finally got to see where he goes every day (yes, it is confirmed that he does, in fact, have a job). Dave and I picked up the bikes that Andrew's department is generously loaning to Andrew and me until we buy some, and we set off back to Aalborg. We had lunch and then spent the afternoon at the Aalborg Maritime Museum, which had several small ship replicas & boat paraphernalia, as well as actual boats (a submarine, a sail boat, and a torpedo boat) that we were able to walk through.
As always, more pictures of everything are on our flickr page here!
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