China dance

The Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is going on an official visit to China October 20-25. He will be meeting with President Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council.

Fogh Rasmussen's wife, Anne-Mette Rasmussen, will not be joining him on this trip. This unique opportunity to see China at a level that is permitted only a select few, to meet with world leaders, and to be pampered to the core, she misses because she

1. is terminally ill,
2. have to take care of the couple's 9 children who aren't invited,
3. is politically against her husband going, or
   
4. is dancing in the popular TV-show "Vild med dans" ('Crazy about dance').

Could be any one of them, except... that last one is too far out. It is the last one, of course: she will not be going because she has used up too many vacation days at her job, that she now has none left to follow her husband - the Danish Prime Minister - on this official state visit to the most populous nation in the world.

Here she is on the dance floor:

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