Museums and Traveling

I finally got to get out of Aalborg for a couple of days this past week and went south on the Jutland Peninsula to a small town called Viborg to visit some family friends. We had a great time with a traditional Danish dinner of whole boiled potatoes, red cabbage, pork roast with crackling, and a dessert of baked pineapple with red chili sauce and vanilla ice cream.

Some of the Photos on the way home from Viborg, beautiful country side and its not even spring yet!

On Sunday I joined some other ISEP and international students to go to an underground Museum in Aalborg about a Franciscan monastery in the Greyfriars Friary in central Aalborg called the Gråbrødrekloster Museum(hint its not pronounced the way you read it, first lesson in danish). It covered the history of the monastery, its daily functions, the burials of monks and citizens from the area, and some brief history of the Viking influence with the monastery. It was a lot of fun to see the local history and understanding the fact almost everything around you that's historic in usually as old or older then the United States as a country.

One of the graves of a local female from the era, her age is estimate around the early to mid 20's when she died.

 Some of the other ISEP students. I'm the one in the red jacket.

The layers of building floors, trash, and graves from that era, you can see the year dates on the metal post in the picture. The two things sticking out of the ground on the right of the picture are two human leg bones from a grave.

Someone who was killed with an axe or sword, you can see were they were hit in the face and the top of the head.

A model of the monastery.

Ruins of the monastery.

And another picture.

So Everything is going very well and I'm enjoying every bit of it. Might be taking a side trip to Sweden soon, but have to hammer out the plans before that happens. An updated count on the number of times I have seen the sun in the 4 weeks I've been here is 8 for about an hour each time at the most.