Dragalicious Christmas

Christmas means ballet at the Royal Theatre. This time around I brought Emilie with me for the Danish ballet "Et Folkesagn" from which our traditional wedding waltz originates. We both went in without a sense of what story we were about to experience but very quickly during the introduction we found out we'd both played in school performances of it! Cool trip down memory lane...

My Queen streak has been quite impressive this year... She was present for this performance because it was one of the dancers' 40th anniversary performing in the Danish ballet.

I really loved the scenography - look at those black/white/pastel framings. Just lovely.

D'Angleterre has a lovely The Nutcracker display. Apparently took 4 months to plan and create.

We filmed our last documentary production last week and went location scouting at Cosy Bar. I felt like dressing up a bit in my new Di Depux jewellery.

 

Also, I got this super gorgeous Lush eyeliner in Amsterdam!

Christmas à la CPH.

 I got to see Big Hero 6! To think that this pre-screening takes place 1,5 months ahead of the Danish premiere but 1,5 months after the US one. URG. 

I loved the designs of the film - the colours were rich and details quirky. It was a very funny film as well - Baymax made me giggle so much !

 The main filming day arrived. Which meant following Drag Queens around! It was super fun to stalk them and we all had a blast partying alongside them.

 Bringing my A game to compete with their hotness haha.

 

Dutch Family Outing

I went with my parents to visit our family in the Netherlands from the 5th to 7th of December - just a long weekend. They live right outside of Amsterdam and so we went there. It felt very similar to Copenhagen - just more crowded and less interesting. But maybe I just visited at the wrong time.

 And yes, that is a santa soap.

 

 Saturday the weather was really fantastic! Not at all winter-y - just sunny and fresh. We sat down outdoors at a café, walked a bit around... and found flat æbleskiver (Dutch variant apparently).

Nice 'n' stuff.

 Local foods. YUm. Apple syrup is amazing with cheese.

The Light Festival goes down in Amsterdam in December. We saw the works from a boat ride, but the windows were not equipped for the cold weather and the experience became quite foggy very very quickly. Some of the works were lovely enough - I liked the lights mounted on the bridge in the last photo.

And the Rainbow Bridge was cool too!

We also went to Rotterdam to dine one evening. The plates there were crazy big and so was the colourful lamps.

We drove past and through the Erasmus bridge - it was spectacular! 

Super cool that the angle you perceived the construction from changed the view as well !

But as always, it was nice to return to cold Denmark - with the normal round æbleskiver.