I am 1/2 Danish and the other half is Scottish and Welsh. I can trace my roots all the way back to Charlemagne, January 28, 814. I have traveled a lot over the years and have seen some wonderful architecture we will never see in the USA. I am blessed and love to travel. My husband has been with me on every trip but one. We have 2 of our grandsons, so far, with us on different trips when they were about 16. We stayed gone a month each time and loved every minute!

 I was in Austria and Germany in 1997 with The Lone Star Chorus, a women's Barbershop chorus of about 60 women. We sang in the Austrian Performing Arts celebration and visited many well known tourists places.

Then we went to Hawaii and loved Maui. We hope to return someday soon. We went to Alaska on a Cruise with well known Christian writer, Chuck Swindoll. I love a Cruise ship and you can eat all day and night and be certain, we did. But that is part of my story because I did not choose wisely, even then, and put myself at risk for several diseases. As you can see, we both needed to lose weight and become healthier and this was 2008.

We went to Mexico seven times with a group from our church. It was mission trips and I served as a chair side assistant for my dentist while we were there.

We took our first grandson, Christian, to Madrid, Spain and traveled by train to Valencia and got to eat the sweetest oranges you will ever taste every day. We stayed in a friend's home and witnessed their yearly celebration called Fallas for 10 days. It was loud (fireworks and music), colorful ( the Fallas statues) and delicious (the Paella). Then we rode the train to Paris, France at night. That was quite an experience!

We were guests with our host, Henny Cote, to the bull fight. At least we can say we have been to one. The Matador was dressed very handsomely and the people are very proud of this tradition.

Christian bought a sword for a souvenir  but to our dismay, was not allowed to bring it back to the states. The pictures will be the memories .

We stayed in Paris for 7 days and had a wonderful time visiting museums and other tourist attractions.

My grandparents came over from Copenhagen, Denmark in 1903 or 1907. I cannot tell from his passport, but I have my grandfather's passport in my possession, a real treasure. I want to learn how to post pictures in my blog as I share my story. He lived with my grandmother in Webster Groves, Missouri when my father was born in 1919, Donnell Christian Jensen.

My father met my mother on a blind date in 1945 and they married the 7th time they ever laid eyes on each other, on June 22, 1945. I was born on March 18, 1946. I got a baby brother in December 1950 before I turned 5. I grew up in a wonderful Christian home and learned to cook, clean house and have fun . We moved a few times while I was growing up because my dad was a Baptist preacher. It was while I lived in Shreveport, LA that I met my husband to be. We were at church camp at Latham Springs.  I was 13 and he was 17. We married 5 years later after I graduated from High School.