Into the Woods...

This morning, Andrew and I hopped the train to Skørping, where we spent a few hours wandering through Denmark's largest forest (Rebild). We're having a beautiful autumn here and it was great to get out of the city and spend some time in NATURE today. Here's some footage of the fall foliage we saw on the train ride:

We hiked through the forest for a few hours, and, thanks to Andrew's GPS, we got off the [beaten] paths and explored a very beautiful part of Denmark. 

An interesting fact about Rebild is that the land was purchased by some American expatriates and donated back to Denmark with the stipulation that it be open to the public and available for the celebration of American holidays. There is a huge Fourth of July party held here every year, but today it was quiet and we didn't come across many people, let alone any Americans. It was a lovely way to spend an autumn afternoon and you can see the rest of our pictures from the day on our flickr page.

We're famous!

Andrew and I attended a dinner for expats at the local library here in Aalborg last week. It was a potluck dinner and over 100 people were there from different countries, each bringing a cuisine from their home countries (we made macaroni and cheese - I couldn't think of anything really American!).

It was a fun night, but the best part about it came yesterday when we found out that we'd made it into the feature on the local news. Check us out on Danish t.v. here. The clip isn't long, but it is almost entirely in Danish, so if you only want to see us, you can skip to 00:09 (saying that I'm from Chicago) and 00:15 (sitting with some friends, enjoying dinner - you can only see the back of Andrew's head and the side of my face, so you'll have to look carefully).