Saturday, July 28, 2007

Open Water Swim Roskilde Fjord

Okay Kipper is right no photos of me.
So here is one.
I heard of a 10k open water swim a week after we get back to the USA at Deer Creek Reservoir. So I have been doing a little training here in Denmark. Fischer took this photo of me in the Selsø bay. I swam over an hour and my hands were a little numb when I got out, I think Deer Creek will be much warmer. 10 k will be my longest open water swim.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Selsø, Denmark


Noelle in wooden castle shoes.
Selsø Slot 2 kilometers bike ride from Skibby farm.

Crew and Marcus, Skibby, Denmark



Crew and Marcus at play.

Roskilde, Denmark

Our Danish host Pernille.

Hamlet's Castle, Helsingnør, Denmark


Dogpile on Jason.

Day Trip to Gershøj, Denmark


Quinn with apple on the Flying Dutchman.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

rock sculpture, fjord, Denmark

Late Evening Fjord






bike,
swim,
stack rocks,
late evening fjord trip

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Skibby, Denmark


We are here for 3 weeks.
We are staying at the Ream family farm.
The farm is on a lake.
The lake is a bird refuge.
The lake is next to the fjord.
It is amazing, quiet, super fun.
This place is heaven.
(this photo lake left, the farm center, fjord right)

Amsterdam Bike #2

Found Hat-Paris, France

Maia with found hat (and Hulk tattoo)

Amsterdam Bike #1

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Amsterdam

My favorite piece of big city graffiti/stencil art.

The Anne Frank House

We have been reading “The Diary of Anne Frank” at night with the kids. On Quinn’s 11th birthday we got to visit the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. It was a powerful thing to see the “Secret Annex” while reading the book. We are learning about World War ll, the Nazis and what it meant to the entire world. It also a great starting point to talk about stuff going on today.

Friday, July 13, 2007

Lucky Fish- Koolskamp, Belgium

When you watch the Tour de France on TV you always see the lucky kids that get the water bottles that the riders throw off to the side of the road. Sometimes your are only lucky enough to get remains of a rider's lunch. Lucky Fish with apple strudel or something wrapping.

Tour de France Stage 2- Koolskamp, Belgium

Maia kept saying, "It should be the Tour of Belgium"

The AmsterO's

It is Holland. It is The Netherlands. They are Dutch. Anyway, one of my new favorite Euro Cities.

Monday, July 9, 2007

when it rains it pours...

We are bike race headquaters. We drove straight thru the day and night to get to Belgium on time to catch todays stage of the Tour de France, it was worth every minute of sleep I skipped last night and then some. All of us, from Steve O (a.k.a. Tour Ambassador) down to Crew loved every minute of the wet rainy day. I'll admit I got choked up as the peleton wooshed by, Steve O thinks this is really funny...
And thank goodness for our own personal Tour Ambassador. The kids loaded up on "schwag" as the caravan (wacky French promotional vehicles or "floats" that fly by at 60 km/hr parade chucking stuff out at the spectators) came thru before the racers. We were in the know all the way thru, good position, timing, well informed... we're sure glad to have our Tour Ambassador on board.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

where is MY bike...

Noelle here...
Here is some more info at this stage of the game, a bit redundant from what Steve O just said, but I stayed up late last night writing this, couldn't log on the internet (not euro wireless savvy enough I guess) he beat me to the punch, I post it anyway.
We are here at the world cup mountain bike race, downhill in Schladming Austria. Steve O had had his fill of castles and museums and decided we needed a sporting event for a change. (I think Fischer was feeling the same way). He did a little research and found this weekend full of races not far from where we were in Salzburg. Schladming is a groovy little resort town surrounded by the Alps, with the Dachstein (one of the tallest peaks in Austria) towering over it. It has rained quite a bit the last few days so the mountain was muddy, but the races were super fun to watch. And, in the end Steve O’s people- GT riders Brian Lopes and Jill Kintner, (both Americans) won, undefeated.
Speaking of bike races... we are busting out north to Belgium tomorrow to catch a stage of the Tour de France before we head for Denmark on Friday. We decided we’ve come too far to miss out on this event even if it takes us a few km out of our way. I’m a littlle upset I don’t get to see Lance riding, but I’m keeping my hopes up in perhaps seeing him as a VIP on the course (I can dream can’t I?) So watch the Tour on Tuesday and we’ll try and lure the American cameras our way with some kind of silly behavior, or outfit. (somebody TiVo that stage for us...)
The last week and a half have been fun, (and wet) with kids so happy to finally be with their long-lost Danish/American friends. The new level of chaos was a bit comical, but we made it through with lots of giggles, loads of muddy wet clothes, a few tantrums, 3 castle tours, (one tour included the torture chamber) a sound of music bike tour in and around Salzburg, one lost child by Mozart's house in Salzburg, getting familiar with just about every playground that came within sight in Germany and Austria- especially important to stop if it has a "barf machine" (oversized sit-and-spin spin toy) and trolley.
The Ream family are making their way to Vienna today, and off we go to Belgium...

Saturday, July 7, 2007

With the Reams

We hooked up with the Reams, our Danish friends, in Germany. We did Germany for a while them moved on to Austria.
Sorry we have not blogged for a bit but...
We were with them for a about a week and a half.
Today they went east to Vienna and tomorrow we are heading west to see a stage of the Tour de France in Belguim.
Tonight we watched a World Cup Mountain bike race in Schladming, Austria.
The riders that I work with from GT bikes both won, Jill Kintner and Brian Lopes.
More updates soon...

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