Oh CRUD!

Today has been a walking day.  We never have the car on Friday, and we had a small list of places to go to.  We started out with a bus ride to the mission office where we dropped off the last dozen mini-cheesecakes for missionaries who happen in.  Sister Hansen looked at them and laughed....she had a kitchen full of treats that other people had brought in, so we just added ours to hers.  We visited with President Sederholm for awhile and then left for the center.

Even though we had stayed late last night to get the dishwasher going and to wash all the pots and pans and serving dishes, we needed to go back to do the rest of the cleanup job...sweeping, emptying the dishwasher, cleaning off tables and counter tops and putting the garbage out.

When we were finished, SK asked (with a competitive twinkle in his eye) if I wanted to play him in a game of CRUD.  I have only watched up until now.  I said OK.  Let me say up front that I always have beginner's luck whenever I try something new.  We played two games and I won both handily.  SK was thoroughly depressed about it.  He mentioned that he had tried to hold back his normally aggressive playing, and I kind of believe him.  But he was quite disheartened nevertheless.

We walked home taking a circuitous route to stop at a few different places.  We got home and had a very late lunch and then walked to Tivoli.  It is fully dark by 4 or 4:30 and the lights were blazing.  It was a little windy which made it nice and chilly and just fun.  We walked through the park stopping to look in a few little shops and then found an indoor restaurant to eat.  We had pretty typical danish fare and it was great.

We strolled out of the park and down one of the main roads to the little street where our apartment is.

We have had a lot of walking time today....time to talk about what we hope we can accomplish in the new year with our YSAs.  There will be big changes ahead with the center moving, and with hours changing as well.  We may be at the center from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and beyond 5 days a week and that could be very exciting ...especially if there is an opportunity to do more missionary work among the young crowd.  The bad news?  There may not be room for the pool table (aka the CRUD table),.  And so ends my reign as the CRUD champion of the Madsen missionary couple.