That's not rain....

My mum, dad and one of my oldest friends Anette visited me this weekend.
We had a great time even though the weather turned towards rain.
Funny it is always when I decide to do the golden circle that the rain starts...

However compared to the amount of rain that have fallen in Denmark it is really not much.
Copenhagen experienced veritable floodgates as you can probably see on the link below:

http://ekstrabladet.tv/nyheder/112/article1390863.ece

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So, today Thomas' vacation ended and I he left for Keflavik around 13:00.
I decided to spend part of my Sunday updating my neglected blog with pictures and events from the last 3 weeks of vacation time.

Anniversary. August 7th.

Me and Thomas' 6th anniversary :)
This year we decided to celebrate by eating out at Sjavarkjallarinn. Fantastic seafood restaurant in Reykjavik. This is what TIME said.

We opted for the Chef's exotic menu with selected wines and it was truly great. Half way through the dinner, Thomas spotted former Danish Prime Minister Mogens Lykketoft at the table behind us, which was quite amusing.

Gay Pride. August 7th.

Gay Pride in Reykjavik was totally great. I have never seen so many people on Laugavegur.

Work and rain, well mostly...

Lots of work to be done at CCP and the weather turned towards rain and clouds for most of the first week of August. However a few times the sun was out, so made the most of it and went for strolls along the coast.

August 2nd. Bank holiday.

I am pretty sure I was nursing a hangover and watching The Wire. I know, it is sacrilege, but I have not actually seen any episodes of The Wire yet. It is a very good series, if you are not familiar with it I can recommend checking out a few episodes.

Housewarming at Scott's place. August 1st.

A well stocked fridge:

Something was obviously very funny, but I can't for the life of me remember what is was:) . :

Octopus

The Octopus visited Reykjavik last week. The Octopus is the world's ninth largest superyacht, owned by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft.

Back to Iceland. August 28th.

Back to work for me. But Thomas still had vacation left, so he flew back to Reykjavik with me. Flight was delayed 45 min so we decided to go for burgers and beer at the sportsbar in the airport (after some serious taxfree shopping of course). GT on the plane, had to take advantage of the last day of vacation :) . Weather in Reykjavik was sunny and beautiful when we arrived.

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The wait was finally over. Since I didn't get the collector's edition at midnight, I chose the digital purchase option. 59 Euros, auch! In hindsight I should just have biked into town in the morning to pick up a collector's edition. Oh well. It is still a good game.

BBQ with Rikke

BBQ at Rikke's place:

Testing the color water fountain, somehow the chosen color always defaults to bordello red:

No visit complete without a game of Cranium. Damn we are talented. We also managed to find the unusual scribblings from the X-mas lunch. Even though we couldn't tell what we had tried to draw. The paper was also slightly burned for some reason (not shown here though).:

Stayed until 02:30 ish, which meant that I opted out of the Starcraft2 launch at midnight:

Tivoli

Spent a wonderful day in Tivoli with my parents.
Had breakfast together at the new Andersen Bakery in the newly resores Nimb building.

Flying the EVE colors in Denmark:

Lunch at "Grøften" famous Danish "Smørrebrøds" restaurant in Tivoli:

Misc. pictures from Denmark

Thomas' new apartment on the 4th floor:


Awesome summer evening sky seen from the kitchen window:

BBQ Evening

Thomas' brother Morten visited us one evening as well.
BBQ, beer, cool wine and a beautiful sunset.

Only 1 balcony in Thomas' new apartment, so we had to but 2/3 of our funiture in storage this summer too.


It was time to light the turtle candle too. I think it is 4 years old and I have not had the hearth to ignite the little bugger yet.

Charlie's Bar

No visit is complete to Denmark, without going to Charlie's Bar. Probably the best place in Copenhagen for beer. The selection rotates regularly. Giving one the opportunity to sample a wide variety of beers.


Here LB and Thomas is looking very intellectual after a few pints:


After sushi, back for some more beers: