Cooooooopenhagen

We all went to Copenhagen, Denmark for the weekend. Being an Aggie where country music was quite popular, I cannot think of going to Copenhagen without singing Robert Earl Keen's Copenhagen lyrics in my head. He was talking about a different Copenhagen though. I digress.

Anyway, Copenhagen was nice. We arrived late Friday night. We stayed at an apartment that as nicer than our apartment in Oslo. Sam and I had a nice late night adventure. We put Katherine to bed and left her with mom and dad so that we could go to the gas station to get milk and a few things for the next day. We decided to explore a little to find the grocery store. We found it with no problem at the end of our block. We decided to take a right and then another which should have then brought us back to our apartment on the corner of the intersection. The problem was that we assumed that the streets were all in a grid and they were not. We wandered around lost for over an hour and a half and did not get home until after 1am. I was so tired.

Saturday we started out with a tour of Copenhagen led by Hans Christian Anderson (who lived in Copenhagen while writing his fairy tales).


It was a very good tour that explained the history of a lot of Copenhagen, the buildings, the Royal family and the culture.

Sam and Katherine outside of the Radhaus (City Hall)

The only ladies you can trust - the barometer and thermometer statues.

At a garden in the Christiana Palace complex

Entertaining a restless toddler with a cow statue

After a great lunch we went to the National Gallery. It was a very large (and free!) museum. We did not even see a fourth of it. Katherine is a trooper and did quite well until it was time for a nap and then she did not want to see any more. She did enjoy looking at the things in the museum before that though.

Katherine's knight in shining armor
Don't touch the exhibit!
We pointed out all the animals
In her museum issued stroller (we weren't allowed to take in ours)
Huge rocks - Katherine loves rocks