Stubberkloster: Part Two

Well, here we've been back over a week and I still haven't gotten all the pictures posted from our trip to Jutland... pitiful. In my defense, Jared came down with a nasty cold late last week and has been medicating himself with hours and hours of silly computer games. I've been known to play plenty of games myself, so I really can't say much, but that's how it's been. On top of the games, Jared has also been faithfully hunting down the best fares for our trip to the US this summer. I'm so happy to announce that we will be flying into Chicago on June 21st and staying for about 2 1/2 weeks! Yeah! We're not going to even think about how difficult the flights may be with Ruby, but pray for some kind of miracle! Ruby has a doctor's appointment in a week and I'll ask her for some of the "travelling medicine" Claire got for Carter to help him sleep... baby tranqs!

We are a bit anxious about this visit because we need the doctor to check out a little lump we found a few days ago. It feels like a little cyst or ball of fat on the back of Ruby's head. So, please, everyone say an extra prayer about this. I'm sure that it probably isn't serious, but it's hard not knowing for sure. Jared will try to come to the appointment with me to catch everything that's being said in Danish that I always miss. Anyway, back to the pictures of our trip to Jutland!!

The first picture is of Leo at his pig farm. They own a mink farm and an organic pig farm. The operation was really quite interesting. They have five groups of mothers (about 200 total, I believe). They go through the rotation twice a year of getting pregnant, then going into their "private" yards to give birth and keep the babies for 8 weeks, then it's back to get pregnant a few weeks later. The babies move along to various places until their slaughter at about 6 months. I was quite shocked at how big they get in that short of time. I was also surprised at how clean it was... really neat.

The next two pictures are from an outing in Leo's Land Cruiser around the property. Along with the farms, they also own a lot of land that they raise Christmas trees on and trees for the pine boughs, etc. used each year for decoration. They also have a hunting lodge and have people come and hunt there for deer and wild pigs (which they have a lot of!). This picture is of the lakes and the little monastary (kloster) that the farm is named after. It's really hard to see in this picture, but is on the strip of land between the two lakes.

Here is a picture of the main house. Really beautiful and very huge and sprawling by Danish standards. I wish I would have taken some pictures inside becuase they had lots of Danish design furniture. It's a very sleek and modern looking design, but they still manage to make it feel homey. Anyway, we were so thankful for the wonderful visit and the chance to reconnect after all these years. Hopefully we will see them again before too many more months pass.