The confirmation was on Friday in the Sailing Club in Skanderborg, which is such a beautiful place that the Danes have a song about it. It's southwest of Århus in Jutland. Mathias is an excellent sailor. After winning one of the big Danish competitions last year, the mayor of Skanderborg invited him to City Hall to be honored.
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Like I said before, the confirmation is a big event in Danish culture–like a Sweet Sixteen but even more significant. We were about 50 family and friends for lunch, with plenty of toasts and speeches, and of course... presents. I thought our iPod was a big deal, until I heard about the computer, the trip to California, the pile of cash... I'd met Thomas' parents and his sister, Lotte, and her family before, but got to meet some more of his relatives. It was a nice, short, six or seven hour lunch.
We also got to catch up with some friends in Århus and walk around the city a bit... where on Saturday we ran into a communist protest march, complete with red flags. May 1st is their labor day, when some of the unions stage rallies and marches. Thomas informed me that sex workers have their own union, too.
On Sunday we met Vibeke for brunch and spent some time down by the river with our turtle faces turned towards the sun. In Danish, a river is an "Å" and combined with "hus" (house) makes "Århus" a house on the river. The river was paved over into a street in the 1930s, and the city has spent the last few years opening it back up and making it more pedestrian-friendly.
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