Beach Day

When summer weather appears in Scandinavia, most natives head to the beaches to tan their pale-from-the-winter skin. That's what we decided to do today. There was some concern at first because we had been told that their where sweat-bees plagueing the entire coastal area so that the restaurants out there even had to close. The word was that you would be covered with these insects if you stood still for more than 30 seconds. Since this news was a day old, we decided to chance it anyway. So we piled into three cars and drove out to Blokhus (Block House) on the NW coast of Jylland (Jylland is the main landmass of Denmark, the peninsula).

Typical day at the beach: lots of Europeans sun-tanning (quite a few of them topless), kids playing in the water, people flying kites. The things you do on most beaches, I guess. I was suddenly gripped by a bout of childhood regression, so I built a sand castle and cooled off with a popsicle from the ice cream truck that drove by. Later I jumped in the frigid water and floated around for a while. Quite refreshing.

While there definitely were a noticeable amount of these sweat-bees, they weren't too bad on the beach because the wind was blowing steadily. These little guys are harmless anyway. And quite trusting. They somehow think that you will not swat them. Later on in the day, a swarm of lady-bugs invaded. We spent a great deal of time placing them into my sandcastle one by one. Many of them stayed there.

Good day at the beach. Then it was time to head home and have a gargantuan dinner again. The Swedes will be leaving tomorrow, so we had to see them off properly! Pork leftovers tonight.