Copenhagen

The first time I have heard thunder and seen lightning since I've been in Gdansk was yesterday...on our way to the airport! Luckily, the storm was very short and our flight to Malmo, Sweden was unaffected. The flight to Malmo was about 45 minutes and we landed in pretty dense fog. Also not comforting. When we arrived, we took a bus from the airport to the train station in downtown Malmo. The train goes on the Oresund Bridge, crossing the Oresund Strait into Copenhagen, Denmark. The train ride takes about 30 minutes. The bridge is partly over the water and partly a tunnel under the water. It is really cool, but it was so foggy we really could not see a thing. We flew into Malmo as it is much, much cheaper then flying into the Copenhagen airport. The only downside is the little extra train travel. We arrived at our apartment at about 8:00 p.m. That is no problem since it is light until about 10:00 this time of year.

This morning we set out to see what Copenhagen is all about. We were disappointed that it is overcast and only about 50 degrees! We seem to be stuck in March over here in Europe. Also, many shops were closed today. We could not figure out why. I looked it up and Ascension Day is a public holiday here. I was surprised to learn that. On our way into downtown, we came across this model of what Copenhagen looked like in the 1530s.

We walked on to the Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum.

There were many things that we all enjoyed at the museum from the funny mirrors,

to the funny facts, to the bizarre.

Attached to Ripley's is a small museum dedicated to Hans Christian Andersen, who is from Copenhagen. He is most definitely a source of pride for Denmark.

He wrote The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina,

and many other stories in the early to mid 19th century. This little museum was so well done, appealing to children as well as adults.

From there we had lunch in a little sandwich shop and went to the Guinness World Record Museum. It is actually part of the Ripley Museum. We were not impressed since much of it was not up to date. We did enjoy seeing how we measure up to the tallest man ever, Robert Wadlow, who was 8' 11"...

and the shortest woman ever. There were interesting facts that we learned, and Natalie loved seeing Mia Hamm's jersey.

After all of that we headed back to the apartment to hang out for a bit before dinner. Along the way we saw this restaurant that really made us homesick! We had no idea there was a Hereford House in Copenhagen, Denmark! We thought that was a Kansas City original.

We ended up going to dinner at a place very close to our apartment. It was delicious. Myles and Ben had mussels and enjoyed them tremendously.

Pasta and nachos made the rest of us very happy.

We are hoping that the weather is warmer and brighter for the rest of our trip (we'd settle for warmer!).