Danish advertising. The Danes, they’re funny people when it comes to advertising. I though that America had some pretty sexualized ads often involving sexy women with little or nothing on selling something completely unrelated to the woman as a person. Well here in Denmark they also use women in advertising. A lot of ads have come in the mail the past week because this week most of the stores are having big sales, I think because it’s midsummers eve on Wednesday, so I was flipping through the ad for Føtex (the grocery store) the other day and happened upon these two ads. Now the first one I just find amusing, a good way to advertise pillows I guess.
The second ad I was dying of laughter when I saw. Now what you might ask does the advertisement say? Translation: This week we have great sweet melons. I was dying! So I thought it would be amusing to share that. I apologize to anyone who may take offense to this but I really thought it was entertaining and it certainly got your attention. Now, not because of the ad, but we did buy a watermelon tonight. Nothing says summer little watermelon! (It was pretty delicious too!)
In other news, Joe and I have been enjoying long walks around the lake the past several days. We enjoy (ok well really I enjoy but Joe allows me to amuse myself with it) visiting the baby ducks and swans who live at the lake. Well we noticed one of the swan families the other night and decided to go see what they were up to (on the other side of the lake of course and we had just walked around from there!) so we walked over and the mom and dad swan and one baby were hanging out on the edge of the grass next to the bike path and street. This little baby, he was really cute, but LAZY, every time he would eat something he just plopped himself down on the ground and ate what he wanted. Well finally daddy swan decided that it would be a good idea to wander across the street. Thankfully this isn’t a super busy street but none the less there’s cars. So daddy swan wanders out into the street followed by mommy swan and baby. About half way across the first section (the road is divided by a median) daddy swan decided that was where he wanted to stop and baby swan plopped himself right back down again! Mommy swan just hung out looking around. Two cars came down the road. The first, a taxi, started honking to try to get the swans to move with no luck and finally had to stop. Since there were no bikes on the path he went up onto the curb and drove around. The swans didn’t like that very much. The second car also had to go up on the bike path to go around but for some reason the swans really weren’t too happy about this. They started to hiss at the car and puff up their wings. They were MAD! Joe and I commented that they claimed the road as theirs and that was that! The car made it around and the swans eventually wandered back to the grass by the lake but we were completely amused for some time while watching them. I realize the swans really have no idea, but the car would have won! So needless to say the swans came back safe and sound and when we went for a walk today we saw the family swimming in the lake so all is well for now.
With midsummers eve approaching Joe and I are hoping to celebrate in some Danish fashion. They will be setting bon fires in different parts of the city as a midsummer tradition. We’re either going to go to the lake or the geographical gardens to enjoy the festivities. I’ll blog more about that later and explain more about what it is.
We’re off on our first European Holiday on Friday starting with a birthday celebration in Copenhagen! So more to come and then a slight break while we travel (no computers while traveling so I’ll probably have several posts when we get back). Anyway hope everyone is well in the States. Miss you all.
Love from Amanda
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