Active week

Had been quite socially active this week. Cristina came by to our place on Monday with Dino and baby Thomas, so we had a really good time catching up on things. She grew up in Triste, Italy, all her life, but had lived in Denmark for around 4 years, and I knew her through work.

We used to hang out a lot, together with 2 of our gal pals. She's ½ Danish (mother) and ½ Italian (father), and speaks both languages fluently. Unfortunately, she had decided to move back to Italy so I only get to see her once every year in July, when she makes her annual vacation trip to Copenhagen. I have yet to go to visit her in Triste, though, and I would really like to do that soon (will probably combine it with Venice, since they are quite close to each other).

Anyway, we had a great together dinner out on our balcony. Martin and I are really using our new balcony table to the max ;o).

Then Tuesday, it was out to meet Sandra, Per and Sean. It was so wonderful to see them again, even though we already last saw them in March this year, when we went to Singapore for our vacation (and had stayed with them pretty much the whole time). Anyway, we sent to Nyhavn for dinner in the warm summer evening, then over to their apartment for a nice warm cup of tea.

On Thursday, we went to Martin's aunt Lise's place (the aunt who had turned 60 this year). Martin's cousin, Dennis, had given her an iPod shuffle for her birthday gift, but she didn't really know what to do with it, so she offered to make us dinner while Dennis helped her to add music to her new gadget, and Martin helped a bit with her computer. I just helped to eat the food ;o).

She's such a cool aunt. I mean, someone her age walking around with an iPod shuffle has just GOT to be a cool aunt ;o). She told me that one of her all time favourite Danish singers is this guy called Lars Lilholt (all my Danish readers should know him), so I can just imagine her groovin' it while listening to his songs on her iPod shuffle. Oh, and btw, she drives a bus for a living, so don't mess with a woman who is strong enough to drive a big vehicle in the city area!

But yeah, it's been a busy week, and weekend is BBQ time with Sandra and gang at Caryn's place :o). I just hope the weather stays super good as it has been all week this week... .