First weekend

Friday evening:

The flight went great. For the first time I was able to sleep during a flight. But I missed my meal because I was sleeping. Well when I got to the airport, Everyone needed to go into a train to get to baggage claim. This says a lot about the size and in general a lot about America! Got out of the train and went up, finding a lot of people waiting for people to arrive. And I was like, this can be hard. I had two directions to go, and needed to find Sam. Luckily, he had a sign with my name on. So I located that and then Sam. And very surprisingly Jade was there too. She was very excited and was literally everywhere. Jumping peoples bags, running around, over exited. But she was so sweet and it was a long waiting time for my bag. My suitcase came and then we headed for the car and drove home. Erin were home with Teegan since it would be unfair to him to drag him into a car, when he defiantly not like to be in a car.

I was so hungry when I got there, so I had some chicken and some salad and then we all went to bed. It had been a long day and a long evening.

Saturday:

Got up around 7, went into the TV room where Jade, Erin and Teegan were up. Took Teegan up and sat with him for a while in the couch. Jade watched Cat in a hat. Then Sam got up.

I took a shower and got ready for the day. We got eggs in a hole for breakfast. Then we went out. First we drove by the new house, so I could see. And then we went for the bank. And that was an experience. We couldn’t get into the bank because it was Saturday. But American have found a great system. Kind of a drive-in bank. You drive up to this tube, hand over the documents and checks you need to deal with. And then your stuff is transported by air into the bank where there are sitting a person dealing with the stuff. That’s pretty cool! I wish we could have something like that in Denmark. Opening hours between 10am-4pm isn’t enough!

Then we went to this kind of park on the mountain, and went for a walk. It was SO beautiful. The mountains, blue sky, few clouds – as taking out of a picture! It was quite slippy, there are snow here! And ice. So we went back down, and drove into Boulder where we had Lunch/Brunch at the “tea house” Boulder has a sister-city in a country I do not remember right now. But Boulder gave an internet café to them, and they got a tea house. It was so beautiful!

We went home so Jade could get her nap. During Jade’s (and Sams) nap I talked with Erin about different things. Very nice talk we had.

Jade got up, and she had a snack and we wanted to go down to the Library to return a movie and to the park. We didn’t get that far in the beginning. We meet our neighbores instead. Very nice people, they have a boy 1 year older than Jade and a baby coming any time soon. It was nice to meet them. And it took longer than expected. So we headed toward the library. We were pretty hungry, at least Erin and I was. So we decided to grab a take and bake pizza. Went into the drugstore got a few things for me, went to the Pizza house. And then we walked home.

While the dinner was made or just baked ;) Jade and I played Target out in the backyard. It was very nice and a good way to bond. We got in before dinner and I gave her one of my presents. A coloring book about Denmark. We painted a page, and then it was dinner time. After dinner we played with the train tracks and I read a few books to Jade and then we all went to bed.

Sunday:

Woke up around 6am, couldn’t sleep so I decided to turn on the computer and had a few chats with people back home. It’s very strange that it was afternoon in Denmark, when I just got up.

I read for a while and then we had breakfast at the table. French toast, tried to have some peanutbutter on. French Toast and peanutbutter is a no-go for me. But need to taste some more, so I can make up my mind of what to think about it.

Then we went out to a gigantic store called Costco. It basically has everything Danish METRO has. It just had much, much more and was at least double as big.

After the shopping we went into a store to buy tap shoes and ballet shoes for Jade. She had her first lesson Wednesday, so she needed the shoes.

Then it was home, we had lunch. While Erin prepared food, and Sam was playing with Jade. I walked around singing with Teeg. He really likes to hear singing, so I sang a lot of different Danish Nursery songs. We ate and then it was Quite time for Jade (nap time) Erin and I went for a walk with Teegan and when we came back we both sat down reading.

After Jade’s quite time Sam drove her around in a bike trailer and Erin took Teegan and Thira out. And they all went to the library. I stayed at home, a little time for my self so I could blog for you guys. Also responded on my mom’s email. She took off the sheets  on my bed today, a week after I left the house. She don’t like it being so empty. She probably still sneak past my door in the morning, so she won’t wake me up. Though I’m not there.  Well she needs to get used to it.

I really like to be here, they are all very nice, both Sam, Erin, Jade, Teeg and Thira. I feel very welcome.

Hope you all are doing good both back home, but also all the other aupairs. I miss the girls from the workshop.

I have already now found a good reason to be an au pair, example is this Sunday. After dinner I also went to my room. As an au pair you choose yourself how involved you wanna be with the family when you’re off-duty. This first weekend I have been with the family a lot, and it have been really nice, so today I needed a little break. My door is open, lights are on, I can hear the family, just need a little time to cope with all the impressions and new things. It feels kind of weird to be in a new family, but they are really nice and I also thinks (knows) that they understand that I need time for myself and privacy.

I feel good, my body is tired. I have never before been drinking so much water. But we live pretty high, where the air is thinner and drier than what I’m used to. So it will probably take some time to get used to.