Winter
in New England
(Feb.20th
2004)
Great to finally have the newlywed Alken’s in New Jersey - it
was good fun and they impressed us with their ability to cover most
of the Midwest and the entire Mormon region in just 10 days.
“If
there was a Mount Rushmore for globetrotters, their faces would definitely
be on it…”
We already look forward to having you back in our New England residence.
Damn… suddenly it was Christmas and New Year. Again it came
as a huge and scary surprise - before we realized what had snook up
on us, the party was over. The only highlight was that Supriya and
Abhi gave us the pleasure of their company and made us relax and feel
comfortable for a few days. New Year's was spent apartment hunting
in Connecticut - 50 prospects were checked out before we decided on
a 6 month temporary apartment in downtown New Haven.
It is now February and we have just moved into our new apartment in the Yale campus. New Haven is a disparate mix of great historical Victorian architecture surrounded by impassive and quickly erected monster concrete facilities, again encircled by a growing pharmaceutical industry. Anyway… our little apartment, is in a cozy and beautiful neighborhood and so far everything is great here. I am confident that we will get to love it as much as Hoboken.
Hot,
humid and eventful
(Aug. 31st
2003)
Danish visitors, terror evacuation, the earthquake and the Blackout,
well... we are definitely not bored :)
The Pedersens (Line, Tine, Emil and Per) take Manhattan at it's warmest,
105 degree Farenheit. But that didn't stop the vacation ready Danes.
A complete collection of Manhattan sights, the LEGO office, Washington
D.C., Niagara falls and a water theme park. All in 3 weeks.
In summary; 3 states in the US and 1 in Canada, not bad at all. It
was good to see them all again. The unnecessary terror evacuation
allowed me to spend an extra day sightseeing with them.
The 24 hour North American "Blackout" makes you realize
how dependent you are on electricity. It was quite an experience,
but New Yorkers took it in stride. For us, hmmm... well, a 2 hour
walk to Port Authority, 1 hour drive through the Lincoln tunnel and
then a 2 hour walk again. The good thing was that we could skip exercising
for a week.
"Unfortunately" only the cats had the pleasure of the Hoboken
earthquake, measured to 3.8 on the Richter scale. Anyway nothing got
damaged and it never became more that a rumble in the ground. Quite
an eventful summer.
Now we are getting ready to recieve the newlyweds from Frederiksberg.
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Finally
spring
(Apr. 13th
2003)
My favorite season and we're laid up with the flu, a much looked forward
to long hot and sunny Easter weekend and we are really ill. I am just
so very pleased that I did not have to waste any working hours of
this unproductive matter. Dr. Daniel just couldn't get enough of it-
not 1 or 2 but a whole 3 rounds of the vicious virus.
Anyway.. we are both looking forward to seeing Rasmus and Karina.
They arrive in early June, and it is always fun to have great friends
around so we used the opportunity to take some time off and see the
city and not to forget Puerto Rican Day Parade.
Unfortunately the photo documentation from the P.R.D.P. is rated-R
and, therefore, cannot be shown here.
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Park Ave. Hoboken
(Feb. 2nd 2003) The
Danish furniture arrived safely- only 9 days late. Put together it
almost occopies 30% of the living room :)
So the echo echo is loud and clear.
The Ithaca interior needs to be packed, stacked and racked so after
a few loooong nights at Coddington Rd. we look forward to battling
it out with the few hundred highway exits on the way to NYC.
The
exits did not give in without a decent fight, and I guess we all learned
a bit about the American highways.
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Manhattan
Moments
(Jan 13th 2003)
It was a cold arrival to NYC- very very cold actually so cold that
even the Danes were wearing Siberian head warmers. The only one freezing
more than me is my camera, which refuses to function outdoors.
Danish time is still in my body, and that blesses me with the pleasure
of sitting in the window and watching Manhattan wake up.
Manhattan is beautiful dressed in its thick white winter coat, and
from my window I can follow the small ice breakers lonely struggle
for a sail route on the Hudson River.
Luckly there is no time for outdoor activities, so the American bureaucracy
can get my full and concentrated attention, and that is needed now.
The big highlight is that our apartment is ready, and just waiting
for us to come and heat it up.
Lets see what the move from Ithaca will bring, i.e., besides 2 cats.
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