Aarhus

Rain today in Arhus (pronounced Or-hoos). Al went off to the University to give a talk and have meetings, and E and I went across town to the Kvindemuseet - the Womens and Children's museum. What an interesting place. The children's museum part was really small but kept us amused for a good hour and a half. It's divided into sections - 'family', 'body', 'school', 'work', 'play' and 'clothes'. It's like a treasure hunt - you take a laminated card, which gives basic biographical details of a real Danish person, some dating back into the 19th century, and some still alive today. Alongside each statement on the card, such as 'he worked as a grocery delivery boy' is a number in the colour that corresponds to one of the sections above. You go to the section and search through the display cases, crawling under some, climbing over others, to find the artefact that relates to the statement. The clothing exhibits were encased in plastic bags, hanging from the ceiling, as were a number of other things such as garden tools, and toys. It was a great way to get children to really look at the exhibits, and relate them to a real life.

Tonight we feasted on cup noodles in our hotel room in front of 3 back to back episodes of the Simpsons in English! It doesn't get much better than that!

And the weather forecast for tomorrow is snow!