2nd Day in Jylland, by Max

July 17, Toftlund & Rǿmǿ

This was the second day at Inge-Lise and Hans’ house.  We started the day with rolls and jelly.   It was delicious.  Then we (me and Cedar) played with Nemo, the world’s greatest soccer playing dog!  Then we went on a walk to the great playground.  This was a playground with swings, slides, rock climbing, balancing truck tires, spinny things, a zip line, and a mini-rope course. We could have spent hours there, but we had places to go to. 

So we went back and started driving and we noticed these houses had roofs made out of layers and layers of brown, dried leaves.  It looked almost  like fur.  After a while, the car we were following pulled over and we were almost sure it would be a random dude who would ask why we were following him.  But much to our relief it was Hans, and he told us that we were at the historic house of the sea captain.  In the first room was a giant whale skeleton, of a sperm whale.  We saw that it had lots of teeth, and giant hands.

When we went in we first saw a hall with a rock floor and lots of wood stalls, the kind used for farm animals, but instead of animals in them there were plows, and in one there was a giant ladder for chickens to go up.  Most of the rooms contained furniture, like beautiful tables, or these great beds in the wall. To get to them it looks like you open a cupboard but inside is a bed! 

Also they had a small closed off room that Cedar loved, it just had a bed, a table, and a teapot.  The teapot had an interesting spout, it curved down and back up, and Cedar just stood there saying “A beautiful elephant teapot!”

The whole inside of the house was covered by blue and white hand painted tiles. 

 A long time ago Hans bought one of these tiles for Inge-Lise and it cost around 500 kr! (more than $80)  Also there was a room with very beautiful pottery, big vases made out of nice brown clay in a kind of jug style, just like the ones my uncle used to make. 

Also there was a room full of a really big chest, and little eating utensils. 

When we left we walked over to a tiny little building that we were told was the first school made when the law for “all people to have an education starting at age 6” was made.  All it had was 2 rooms, one small one for the teacher’s bed, and one bigger one made up of a long scratched up table, and a wood easel. 

Then we left to (we were told) go to a “little” playground.  We drove a bit and then we stopped at a truck stop, my mom looked around and immediately said “we are so getting the grandchild treatment.”  About a hundred feet away was about 13 blown up houses, to jump on and with obstacle courses, etc… 

there was also a bungee jump on a trampoline, and floating plastic bubbles on water. 

At first we thought buying tickets at the blown up places would pay for it all so Cedar and I both got tickets for that, but then I learned you had to buy the tickets separately so for me we got our money back and I went to the bungee jump.  When I got there I stepped on the trampoline and got strapped in and then hoisted up about 15 ft. and then it dropped me.  I was so fun, you would be in the air for 5 seconds!  When I was up there it felt like you could see for miles.

Also,  I could see Cedar going up stairs to a slide, and then sliding down the stairs. 

When I was done with that I went in the bubbles, they were my favorite thing there.  You would say you wanted to go in and so they’d pull one over and open it, then you would go in while it was deflated, and they would inflate it while you were still in it, you would stand up and not be able to touch the ceiling and suddenly they would push you off.  Once you were there you were always trying to stand up and run, the best I could get was 5 steps.  But the most fun was the falling, one second you would be in a position with heels over head, and it felt so good to fall, it felt like falling on plastic on top of jello!  But it felt like a green house in there!  So hot that you actually after a while want to come out!  So I went out and I walked over to where Cedar was and I saw Inge-Lise waiting for me with a slushie!  (Krap—see first day in Iceland). 

I stayed there drinking slushie, and eating scones.  I watched Cedar play a bit, and then she wanted to ride a pony.  When we got to the pony riding we learned that the parent led the pony around, so Cedar got on, and my mom led the pony around a third of the way and asked Cedar how she liked it, Cedar said it was great.  Two steps later Cedar was crying and forced my mom to carry her the rest of the way.  Then Cedar wanted to go in the bubbles with me, so we walked over there and Cedar said “actually, no.”  And she walked away when I went in for the second time. The man controlling it walked away, so my mom yanked me around, it was really fun, then we left. 

We got into the car to go to the beach.  When we got there we learned that here you’d drive to where you want to be, so the sand was as hard as pavement.  Immediately we saw kites, so we walked in that direction and saw kite surfers. 

Some people were going really fast, like 20-30 mph fast!  There was one person in particular who would turn around by jumping up 5 ft and angling her kite differently!  Then we got cold and had to leave. 

When we got back we had dinner and then a dessert of a red berry (cherry + strawberry + raspberry) porridge called Rødgrød med Fløde then we went to another room to have coffee and candy.