We hope that everyone is doing well back home (wherever that may be.) Adam and I had an enjoyable weekend. On Sunday (since EVERYTHING IS CLOSED) we went for a walk on the quest for bikes.
This heron (?) was in one of the canals while we were walking to find our bikes. This heron along with a ton of Mute Swans (Denmark's national bird.) They are beautiful. I need to figure out how to bring home two of them too, along with my horse from the royal stables.
And here my friends, is my new sweet bike. You can't see because my leg is in the way, but it has a sweet fro sticker on the chain guard. The basket is also awesome because it carries our beverages around. Adam opted for a less fun bike, which is to the left of me. Not that it's less fun, but the city bikes are awesome. You sit up nice and tall. It has coaster breaks which I never thought I'd see again. We rented out bikes from a little shop that uses all the profits to buy bikes to send to Africa. It's a pretty great thing they're doing. Here's the link! http://www.cph-bike-rental.dk/
After we got our bikes we went on a mini tour of the city. We stopped first at one of the museums that was founded by the Carlsberg family. We saw amazing paintings by Monet, Degas (along with his sculptures,) and we saw "The Kiss" which is beautiful. The museum is free on Sundays, and because our sweet rides took a little while to get, we only had an hour. We're both looking forward to going back. The picture to the right is of the Carlsberg brewery. It's not like St. Marys. They don't give out free beer, but you can go on a tour of the brewery, which I think would be cool. It is closed on Sundays however.
*The Tivoli Boy's Guard. If the Queen can have her own guards, so can Tivoli. Or at least the website says so!* I'm not so sure how excited I'd be to wear a pumpkin helmet. Okay, I would, but a "normal"person probably wouldn't be very excited!
On Tuesday, Adam took me to Tivoli Gardens, which is an amusement park. Halloween is a new holiday in Denmark, and when they do something, they do something! The park was very crowded, but most of that was parents with small children. It got less crowded as the night went on. There were pumpkins everywhere!! It was amazing. I figure that's why pumpkins in the store are 30 dollars, because of supply and demand. Tivoli has probably bought the pumpkin growers out of all of the pumpkins, and left non for the "common folk." We didn't go on any rides, but we had a good time walking around. We got candy apples (much cheaper here than in the states, but that's the only thing.) They were on really long sticks, and delicious! We also had fish dinner, which wasn't so great. The ketchup here is weird, and it makes me miss "real ketchup" they put mayonnaise on their French fries (which isn't too bad.)
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