We had a morning of beginning the packing for our trip home to the U.S. as well as getting ready for one more overnight visit with family. This time, we took the train about one hour to the town of Gørlev where cousins Birthe & Finn live. We had a brief delay when another train broke down on the tracks. We had the challenge of trying to understand what was happening when all of the announcement were in Danish. Finally, we asked a nice guy and he let us know what was going on. After a while, they backed our train up, and then we went and picked up the folks who had been stranded. We had very little trouble with transportation on this trip in terms of lateness or breaking down, so this was minor. Finn was waiting for us at the train station, and drove us 20 minutes to their home. This included seeing one of the many mounds created by the Vikings.
Once we reached their home in Gørlov, we found that Birthe, their daughter Annette and grandson Thørborn were waiting for us. We were so warmly greeted.
It was so fun to see their home and their yard with so many great fruit trees growing there. We had a lovely lunch. Did we mention that our family all seem to be great cooks? More delicious food.
After lunch, we took at nice stroll to the local church where they had a couple of old and important Runestones. These were so interesting.
Then we also walked around the town and Annette told us stories of growing up there. Then there was time for a little rest before more family arrived for dinner.
Annette’s sister, Charlotte, arrived with two of her three kids. The third would arrive later, after his heavy metal band finished practicing. We enjoyed time to visit and meet this section of the family. There were lots of great topics of conversation before, during and after dinner. It is such a pleasure to have time together with relatives from far away. We hope that more of them will come to visit us in San Diego.
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