Smorrebrod

Today, Sunday, has seemed like the longest day since we have been here. But, overall, it has been a really good day. We checked out of our hotel this morning ---yea!!! It was a pretty small hotel room, and 10 days in there felt like forever. The boys could only crawl around so much in that room. And you know how it is, eating out every meal for that long gets old. So we got up early, got ready for church, had breakfast, packed up, checked out and left for church. (By the way, I found out on check out that we had to PAY to make local calls from our hotel phone! A 15 minute call cost us about $40 if you can believe it. It almost made me angry!) We got lost only about 5 times on the way to church...seriously. It was so frustrating!
Church was great. In Sacrament Meeting, they have headphones for English speakers to wear and somebody translates into a microphone for us to hear. This ward has an English Sunday School and then in Priesthood and Relief Society, the English speakers just sit toward the back and somebody whispers the translation to all of us. The Church is strong here, and some people have long roots in the gospel. It is neat to see. This ward seems so run very similarly to an American ward. There is about 15-20 Young Women in our ward which is a 10x increase from our Orem ward. They gave a great Sacrament Meeting presentation today, and the RS lesson was also very good and inspiring.
We got invited to someone's house for lunch and we were so glad we did. They served us the most delicious traditional Danish lunch ever. The Danish are famous for smorrebrod. I think they mostly have them for lunch. They are open faced sandwiches, usually served on a rye bread, some dark rye and some lighter colored and less intense flavored rye. Then there is a ton of different combinations you can put on it. In this last week, between Don and I, we've tried:

• butter, meatballs cut up, and pickled red cabbage (at first I didn't put the cabbage on, but I tried a little and it was so good, I heaped more on--I would never have thought it!)
• butter, meatballs, hard boiled egg, mayo and chives
• potatoes, onions, and mayo
• shrimp, hard boiled egg, mayo and chives
• butter, cheese and jam
• butter, cheese and nutella
• butter, ham and vegetable salad mix

You wouldn't believe how good these are. I'm so glad we got invited to a home here and got to experience this lunch! The lady whose house it was was married in the temple over 50 years ago and had to go all the way to Switzerland to get to the closest temple. She was great.

We then went to look at a house for rent in the ward of a couple serving as mission presidents in Poland. It was an incredible house, by a beautiful lake. We'll see if we get this one! We got lost a lot on our way back to Copenhagen (AAGGH!) and finally made it back to our service apartment. It is SO nice to be here. There is a kitchen, fully stocked with everything we need for cooking and eating, a washer and dryer, a good sized living room, and a bedroom. The pillows aren't just stuffed with oversized cotton balls like in the hotel, and the beds are really soft and comfortable. We are in heaven. We can't wait to get in bed after this long, exhausting, frustrating at times, but overall really great day.