Copenhagen Carnival

This weekend we went to see the 26th annual carnival in Copenhagen. It was colourful, loud, but also quite wet. The parade started at Kongens Nytorv and ended at Rådhuspladsen. It took about 3 hours to cover this 1, stretch. The parade allegedly contained 2000 dancers, drummers, etc. Here are some pictures.





Shoulder pads are in again.


Little drummer boy.


I call this piece "Angry man with Whistle".


After the parade, the carnival continued in Fælledparken. The rain doused the mood quite a bit, though. These seats should be full of spectators for the drum shows, but no one wants to sit around in the drizzle.


Lying in the grass in blaring sun is somehow more fun than standing under a tree trying to avoid getting wet. We did still had a good time together with Anna and Casper, though.


We leave this year's carnival with a picture of a kid with a big, bright-coloured rain coat.

The wonderful life of students.

This is the time of the semester which you wish you could fast forward through. We have 12 days until deadline and heaps to do. Heaps. We will make it through though, it will just require a lot of work and a many sleepless nights (well 12). Today we are reading the very last thing and at least for me, from tomorrow it is only writing. Hope Donghai (my groupmemeber, we are only 2) has it the same. We have gotten good critique from our supervisor, which is kinda what you need at this phase in the project, which is sooo good.
So, paddle on guys!

-Steinunn the stressed

Ice-Bat came home with us...

The weather was surprisingly good yesterday, so we decided to go into Copenhagen. We went to a photo exhibition, had lunch and checked out the stores. The city cetnre was absolotely crowded. Guess more people had the same brilliant idea of how to spend the day.
Anyway, here are some pics from the day.

We have this thing for Uglies. They are funny and cute at the same time. In Copenhagen we found them with 50% off and we couln't resist but to adopt Ice-Bat.

For Christmas last year Søren gave Steinunn one of those elephants. They are handmade from old towels and all have their special features, noone the same. Steinunn's has a green pattern and goes by the name 'Daisy'. Here are her siblings at HAY cph.

Here's a building reflected in a mirror. Nothing fun about it, just a little bit cool.

Home for a few days...

I was feeling the need to see my family, my mountains and taste the Icelandic food, so I went home for a few days earlier this month. And it was just what I needed. It gave me time to charge the batteries for the last stretch of this complicated and confusing semester. Now we only have 19 days until our project deadline, have recovered our lost groupmember from the grips of an unfair situation and will deliver a good project. Things are looking much better now than they have all semester. Plus summer is just a few weeks away with work and vacation. If you don't know allready, I can tell you that we are going with the Icelandic family to an Greek island named Paros. We will spend 2 weeks there and it will actually be the longest consecutive time I have spent with my family for a long time now. So that is really good. Plus I really get to spend time with my baby nephew Breki and get to know him even better.
Of course I took a million pictures when I was in Iceland, and most of them are of Breki :) Here are a few of them.

Here is Breki, seeing things in a different light, and finding it incredibly funny.

I put Breki's stockings on his head instead of his feet, and that too, was incredibly funny. It's very easy to get a smile and a laugh from Breki :)

My parents very own privat spa. Or almost. This pool was opened a few weeks ago, and it is less than 100m from where my parents live. So it's almost private. I intend to spend a lot of time there on my visits from now on...

Breki with his new cup.

A tired Breki, just in from a nap on the balcony (in his pram of course!)

Gletta, the 'AristoCat'. She is warming up to Breki now, but at the beginning she aparently did not like this "sharing" thing.

Fluga, my favorite. She is just so cute and soft. Plus she has never lost her kitten voice. I think it's because she knows what kind of power it gives her. I mean, who can restist a kitty like that with the cute voice. You can't help but run to the kitty candy drawer. And she knows it!

Jenný and Breki