I have 19 days left before I leave Denmark for 7 months in Canada (and USA). 19 days is not a lot, so I'm really excited, also because I will start out my 7 months with 5 weeks in America. However, before I can get 100% excited and ready I still need to finish some projects at work and work a lot on my master thesis. My master thesis is not suppose to be done this summer, my writing buddy and I just need to have completed 35 interviews with Novozymes before the end of September!!
Anyway, went shopping today with Oliver and got a pair of shoes for DKK 100. (Thats about USD 19). Here is a picture of them.
Have to hit the showers before my cousin will be here to cut my hair. I have just been out for a run where my parents joined me on their bikes.
Here we all three are ready to go.
This is the same place, I am now down in the hole/void that the rocks create and it is starting to look bad. 
I came to Coalville, which is a small western town up in the mountains. Everyone knows each other and when asking for directions I just ask for where Tom lives.
This is the cabin, and the fields behind it will the next couple of weeks be used for a demolishen derby and a rodeo show. 
This is the trail, which Tom, Mitch, and I went on with the ATVs. They are so much fun to drive; too bad Denmark doesn’t have the terrain for it. 
When driving down the mountain I was listening to the satellite radio and they played the best music, here it is Jason Mraz, but they also played “I kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry. Great new music.
Here are some photos of the concert in random order.
After the concert Christel and I got to talk to Carlos from the band, a really cool guy, who invited us backstage. It was a small cosy party with a nice relaxed atmosphere; we talk to most of the band and Jason. We both got our picture with Jason, whom was really cool about having us joining the party. Christel was very amazed when Jason came and said goodbye and remembered our names, so was I, but maybe not as much, since Jason seemed to me to be a really good guy with an incredible amount of creative skills.
We talked a lot with Carlos about almost everything from politics to his career. Carlos was really cool guy and introduced us to the rest of the band, I unfortunately did not get a picture with him, but maybe he will email me the one that he took.
(from left to right: Mads, Mikkel, Lasse, Kritte, and I)
I have to prepare for the oral defence, but this week I am focusing on catching up with work and all the other things that I have not have had time for lately.
Downtown in between business buildings and everything else you find Estadio Santiago Bernabeu where Real Madrid plays. (Not as nice as Rice-Eccles Stadium – GO UTES) 
Above is a beautiful buildings on Calle Serrano, which is one of a few streets where all the expensive shops are in Madrid. It was nice to walk around in the nice weather and a bit fun to see how different I looked to all the local people.
After a lot of sightseeing we went back to Alcobendas to have lunch with the family and afterwards Javier’s girlfriend, Encina, came over. Below it is from left to right, Encina, Javier, Guiri (me), Gema (Javier’s sister), Maribel, Vicente. A very nice family that let me stay at their place and really let me experience the beautiful hospitality that they have in southern Europe.
After see all of those beautiful and historical places it was time to get some food at a nice Spanish restaurant. 
We met up with Cata and his girlfriend, and one of Encina’s friends Laura and her boyfriend Jesus. We had a wonderful dinner, with good food and a lot of fun conversations.
Eating is very important – Javier loves food, especially Spanish food. I didn’t really know what Spanish food was except you can get Ta Pas, which I have never tried.
Javier lives with his parents right outside Madrid in Alcobendas the city is still growing as you can see with all the construction in the horizon.
In the evening Javier and I went downtown to meet some of his friends, from right to left it is, Cata (Carlo), Musto (Danniel), Javier, Guiri (me). 
Here, I am sitting in the command center analysing the tourist development of Spain and Latvia, which kind of interesting, but the rest of the exams question are such a low level that we are having a hard time being motivated.
A black toilet – that’s sweet. 
Bring it on Salt Lake; you might have everything in nature, but we have the Metro!!
The bowling tournament was a dual between Oystein and I, it was close, but I won with two points and a score of 153.
During the game we tried some different techniques, which eventually had us concluding that there is a reason why those techniques are not used by any professionals.
Wednesday morning I am heading to Washington DC.
There is always a lot of entertaining going on during the many breaks. Cheerleaders is one of my favourites, and what better than having them dancing and a bear shooting t-shirts 30 meters into the air with a gas-gun of some kind! 
I got my self a Jazz t-shirt, which you can not really see, however, what is important is that it was a gift from my two cousins back in Denmark and their families – Thank you.
West Yellowstone looks like something from a movie taking place in Alaska. Every road is totally covered in snow and everyone including us was driving on the roads with our snowmobiles.
The snow-covered roads make it an ideal place for making hand-break turns. We probably made about 50 of those. I prefer the ones when you make a 90 degree turn and has to continue down a street or when parking between cars. (I made Manuel a bit nervous a few times, but he admitted that I nailed it every time when parking!) This is how the back of the car lookes after the first day!
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