ask and ye shall receive

you wanted pictures of day 1 of blog camp (far more offline than we intended...will explain that later)...

on the metro, wondering how it's all going to turn out

in front of tivoli - already laughing

i fear all of polly's pix are going to be a bit skewed

oh wait, that one's straight

hmm, i'll bet there's a similar one of me...

we observed some interesting fashion choices

scary stuff!

busy today on strøget

even the tudors were out

so, do you guys want to climb that tower?

naah, i don't think so.

perch's tea house

the best tea ever.

see anyone you know in the reflections?

quite a lot of smiling going on.

oh man, i WANT those shoes.

we KEPT SEEING this guy!

seaside girl has a dress like that.

these guys had a lot to tell us about ACDC

my friend irene came to give several warnings to blog campers:

1.) do not let husband show you how to open bottles of champagne with a sword.

2.) watch out when julochka says, "what are you gonna remember?"

i promise, this mermaid is much better than the real one.

storm - sunshine - storm - sunshine

beautiful tho'.

and i was accused to being in cahoots with google in controlling the weather.

modern-day h.c. andersen?

what awaited us at home.

what do you think will happen tomorrow?

waiting...

...for the sparks to start flying.

just a little over three hours to go.

it's sunny, warm and beautiful outside, tho' they promise some showers.

counting down

a little hint

preparations are coming along nicely:

• the goodie bags are finished and packed up and waiting (much more calmly than i am) on the table in the studio. 
• there are 15 bottles of white wine in the wine fridge. 
• my grocery list is made and i'm soon off to the store. 
• our saturday evening activities are confirmed.
• the cleaning girl has already been here for 3 hours and the place is looking great!
• beds will soon be made up. 
• we are aiming at having the last of that awful matted hairball off the cat by the time you all arrive.
• camera battery is on the charger.
• a selection of cameras for tomorrow's photo walk in copenhagen is prepared.
• good weather has been ordered (let's hope it comes (along with my blog camp t-shirts)).

and i can't resist one more (just because nikon rocks the colors)

p.s. our blog camp site meter numbers are up this week. everyone must be quite excited!! i know i am!!

see you all tomorrow in terminal 3!

doing math is problematic

i've been fidding in my head with various times we could plan to be online during blog camp this weekend and have realized, once again, with trying to figure out what time it was where at what time here, that i hate math, so i'm just going to throw some times out there and hope that some people somewhere will be able to be online then too and will come to play with us.

i'm certain we will all be posting all kinds of wacky things here outside the scheduled times, so everyone should just follow their normal urge to play along in the comments.

but, here's when we'll plan to be online (will provide stickam stuff later, as i still haven't tried it out, but it's on my list!):

we'll be back home and fed in time to get online by 9 p.m. friday

friday, june 19 - from 9 p.m. 'til we wander away (we'll also be making an appearance over at hermit book club around this time, since i'm leading the murakami book discussion there)

saturday,  june 20 - 10-11 a.m. - this will hopefully be convenient for anyone east and south of here who would like to hang out with us a bit.

saturday,  june 20 - 8 p.m. 'til we wander away we'll be out at buresø, but with a lot of computers and wireless, we should be able to squeeze in some time with our blog campers in north america.

this is where we'll be saturday evening

we won't make any promises about sunday morning at this time, because they might not be prudent in light of the supply of wine that has been laid in.

do bear in mind that we will be tweeting as well and you can no doubt follow what's going on there.

i'm getting very excited and really looking forward to this. it's getting that familiar feeling of chaos that happens in my head when something finally comes together and it involves a bunch of other people and you can't really envision it very clearly anymore. but i keep hearing laughter, lots of laughter in my head, so i know it's going to be great.

if you'd like to suggest other times, please do so in the comments and we'll try to accommodate.

blog camp warnings

blog camp is drawing near and at the same time as i am really excited and impatient and wish it was now, now, NOW, i also know there are some things that aren't going to get done and so i'm here to warn you about those as follows:

• the laundry room still looks as if a car bomb went off in it. 
• there are a lot of weeds and generally ungroomed areas in our garden.
• i can cook, well even, but will likely go totally scatter-brained and forget to serve half of the dishes i prepared. please help me remember to put them on the table.
• there will probably be dust bunnies under the beds. (don't worry, we're quite sure they're harmless).
• we're probably going to pull stomach muscles laughing.
• i should have gone on a diet before you all came, but i didn't.
• i may have to run off for 45 minutes on saturday to sabin's riding lesson because she's incredibly worried that her father (even after a training run today) is incapable of saddling and bridling the horse.
• i haven't finished painting the closet doors in the fabulous ironing room upstairs, so that room doesn't look as cool and finished as the photo i posted may have indicated.
• you may find out that i'm pretty much even sleeping in my new converse all-stars. (and have you seen stacey's new ones, by the way?)
• you will be asked to paint something clever on a table.
• you will be asked to spontaneously compose lots of balderdash definitions.

and in order not to scare off everyone who's coming on friday by plane, train, bike and automobile, here are some good things:

• i've been making some fun little blog camp surprises this weekend.
• some of the others who can't actually be a blog camp have sent some fun little blog camp surprises our way. (thank you!!)
• i've washed all the bedding and so there are fresh sheets on every bed in the house.
• i ordered a kilo of fresh shrimp and a box of gorgeous organic peaches, nectarines and plums which will be delivered on friday along with our regular veggie box from årstiderne. so it won't be all food that's bad for us.
• my cleaning girl is coming right before you all arrive, so there is a good chance those dust bunnies will be scared into submission.
• we're probably going to pull stomach muscles laughing.
• husband has been practicing his pastry runs.

in all seriousness, i'm really, really looking forward to hanging out with all of you totally happening blog camp babes next weekend.  stay tuned this week for the schedule of online bloggy goodness...i'm going to try to play with stickam, but if it proves to be beyond me it's not working, we'll just use this blog space...posting and then "chatting" with all of you who wish you were at blog camp in the comments. ya know. like normal.