Two departures and an early return
Yes, he’s back! Tony went to Greenland on Saturday 19th August and was back on Thursday 24th August having failed to do what he set out to do due to bad weather. The weather was bad in Denmark, in Iceland and in Greenland. He and his colleague managed to get to Greenland via Air Greenland but their pilot couldn’t get from Iceland to Greenland because of bad weather and even if he had done, it is doubtful they would have been able to do their aerial surveys because the weather was also bad in Greenland so in the end they pulled the plug and returned early.
On the 19th Mia had her first birthday party with the whole class invited. It seemed to go well but Mia was not happy about so many people in the house.
On Thursday was the big transition day when I first said goodbye to Gwen on the train. She was going on a class trip for 5 days to Bornholm, the Danish island off the coast of Sweden. Then in the afternoon I saw Mia off who was doing an overnight in the local fields with her class (and teachers).
I was just wondering what I was going to do all on my own that night when I got a text message from Tony that he was returning early from Greenland so at 11.30pm I went to collect him at the airport.
This week end we 3 have been attending a world music festival at Grenaa. It is the first time they are doing this and it lasted from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. We went on Friday and Saturday. It was very good, free of charge and the weather was OK so we wondered why there was never more than about 200 in the audience. Even Nimtofte school can muster more than that on their school festival where doting family have to pay about £5 for the pleasure. The picture shows the measures Mia had to take to cope with the noise level.
I know that my audience is fairly limited today with two families on holiday, one family offline and a fourth with a seldom used dial-up connection. Most of you have heard of our adventures. The picture is from the Motor Stunt show which we saw twice at Disneyland Studios because Gwen’s camera wasn’t working properly and she wanted some pictures. We think it may have been due to the heat as it seems to be working OK now. On the newsletter site you will find a link to a more extensive photo album of the whole 2006 Odyssey.