Anne Mette's Birthday

A couple of pictures from Anne Mette's birthday recently.

Anne Mettes Birthday

Trip to London for Braden's Birthday

Braden's B'day Weekend 2008

Rikke wins the L'Oréal Women in Science Grant

Rikke's L'Oréal Grant

New Year 2007

This year we were down in Odense where Peter and Kirsten hosted a New Year's party.


The host with the most (Peter) with Jorun and Henrik.


Aaron, Kirsten and Jesper.


The night always begins with the Queen's New Year's speech. This year she remarked clearly about the crisis with the Muhammed Cartoons and gave instructions to us immigrants that although it is difficult we should try hard to be integrated. Good advice... thanks Queenie!



In Danmark, we look to the clock on the town hall in Copenhagen to mark midnight.


Then the firework go crazy. There are so many fireworks and it is everywhere!

I also have a little video here.



Hey, that's our car!!!


Peter and I clouded in smoke.


Skål and happy new year!

Christmas 2006

We spent Christmas in Kolding with the family. This year we held Christmas at Anne Mette and Michael's new house.

Here are some clips from Christmas Eve... This is the typical Danish Christmas with a big dinner on Christmas Eve. After dinner candles are lit on the tree and then we dance around the tree singing Christmas carols. Sometimes there is a surprise visit from a jolly, old man and only then do we get into the presents.

Merry Christmas!

Love Aaron and Rikke.

Lauren's 21st Birthday Bash

The theme of the party was "L" in honour of the birthday girl. Rikke was a Licorice all-sort while Braden somehow misunderstood that the theme was "Freddie Mercury: The Musical".


Lauren came as a Leopard. Loco could have come as himself but knew that he looked better in stockings - Ladyboy!


Lillie came out of retirement. Another member of the 'tache club.


Stick that in your family album...




Lucifer.



Happy birthday, Lauren!

Adrian and Gilda's Wedding

Fancy meeting a pack of old faces from the AWMC in Portugal... You guessed it it must be another AWMC wedding :-) When are we geeks ever going to get a social life outside of the lab...

Christian and Simone Fux were also there but they managed somehow to avoid being in this photo.


"You may kiss the bride..." at least I guess that's what he said... The wedding was mostly in Portuguese with some English interludes. The happy couple looked great. So Happy.

I hate to see what Gilda's chiropractic bills look like though... :-)












There were no official speeches as such but I took the liberty of saying a few words...

The Bridal Waltz.

Next blog... some photos from our tour of Portugal.

New Year 2006

We managed to create quite a party in our little living room! Here we are enjoying the starter of venison prepared from a buck roe deer shot by Steen (one of our friends, actually to my right out of view). As I mentioned in the previous blog, hunting is popular here. If I remember, the distaste that I felt the previous day out in the forest at the thought of hunting those beautiful animals, was replaced on this evening by a rather lovely taste and washed down with copious amounts of red.

Ruth and Romain donned disguise to get closer to the locals.
Inge and I made a good cocktail team. As expressed in my face, this taste testing is a serious business!

Some of my Aussie habits have to be maintained, despite the sub-zero temperatures... Frozen daquiri anyone?

Come midnight the sky lights up with the spectacle of an every-man-for-himself amateur fireworks free-for-all that honestly has to be seen to be believed. The sale of fireworks is not restricted and it is a rite of passage for every young man to loose some portion of their anatomy during their teenage years to this orgy of fire. The body count was low this year - no deaths, several buildings and apartment burnt down and only one serious injury when one of this countries brightest minds put the rocket in his mouth before lighting...

Happy New Year!

Aaron's Birthday - 10th December, 2005

The birthday boy and Rikke