Milford chronicle., 1961-07-28
Milford Girl Writes
NeIUs From Denmark
continued from page one)

July 5, 1861
MS Seven Seas"
Hi Folks:
How is everything doing at
home, Thanks for all the letters
u think my parents think | get
too much mail especially last Fri
day when | got six letters. Oh,
yes, thanks loads for sending me
the Chronicle really enjoyed it,
I've heard from Raul twice and
he seems to be having a ball
haven't heard from Uta yet.
Oh. I've just got to tell you
about yesterday-it was wonder
full We went up to Rebild for a
Danish-American 4th of July cell
ebration. l told you we were
going, didn't /? Rebild is a ma
tional park about so miles north
of Alphabetically beautiful with
all the heather on the hillsides
Anyway the celebration was held
down in one of the valleys-ev-
erybody sat or stood on the hills
there must have been thousands
of people there in spite of the
weather-it was rainy and sort of
cold. There are flags everywhere
you look-our flag and the Dame
borg Danish fiag) on top of the
hills and then the flags of all SO
states lining one of the paths
up a hill. (Took a picture of the
Delaware flag - naturally. The
UCLA marching band was there
and the Dana College Choir also.
There wasa Danish band and lots
of guests-the American ambass-
ador, the Danish king-King Fred
erick TX and his family, the prime
minister, Walt Disney, and some
other people I'd never heard of
before. Both bands played u. S.
and Danish music respectively and
we all sang the national songs. 1t
was really raining until the king
and his family arrived and then il
stopped and the sun even came
out for a while-not long. Walt
Disney was a big hit with every
body and his speech was really
good You know, it seems sort of
strange but the first real 4th of
July celebration I've ever been to
wasn't even in America. took
some pictures and / have a little
booklet about Rebild that I'll show
YOU when | get home Oh. yes.
speaking of pictures, Dad had my
first two roles of film developed
for me and they turned out just
fine. There are some pictures from
the boat. Rotterdam, our home,
Aarhus. Ebeltoft. and a party we
went to Q don't particularly like
thoseD. So far. I've used up about
four rolls of film.
Now. let's see what have we
done since | last wrote that was
last Wednesday, / think. We've
had visitors since Friday. Dads
sister and cousin were here from
Friday until Sunday afternoon and
there's girl from Copenhagen
(Sana, one of Jette's friends) stay
ing with us until this Sunday.
She's about is and speaks very
good English. | think she pre-
fers reading and studying to doing
things, so she doesn't do too much
with Jette and me. I've only beer
swimming once this week-the
weather hasn't been good enough
to go every day. Remember. ! told
you that we didn't change on
blackwell we do-sort of. We
20 back to the car and put a big
bathrobe on and take our suits
off, then come home and change.
It's not very easy either (believe
mel. but | managed.
This past Monday night we all
went over to Mr.. and Mrs. Espil-
sons home for the evening. They
had SGS student two years ago
her name was Linda. Their
daughter. Kristen. who's now
about Is, lived in England for six
months last year so she speaks
English very well. We had the
best Danish pastry you could inn
agine and some apricot brandy
which was pretty good. | guess.
and then Mr.. Espilson showed some
of his slides-soHe pictures of
Linda. Rebild, and other places
they've been. Dad went home and
got my slides, so | got chance
to see what they looked like on
a screen. We also brought the
pictures you sent me of home and
the lake. Everybody was impress
ed. ! think-they were beautiful!
Sunday. we went on another pic
mic. This one was about an hours
drive west of Aarhus where they
have all the hills. 1t was just
the weather. We
went up one hill (mountain0 =
the third highest in Denmark,
believe. 1t has some long name