Denmark

We went to Denmark on May 20. Once we landed in Copenhagen we started driving to Billund which is where Legoland is. We had rental car issues right off and had to drive back to the airport to get a new car. They were really unhelpful but finally 2 hours later we were finally on the road. We stayed at the legoland hotel that night and they had many activities for the kids to do.
The next morning we headed into the park and had a nice time riding the rides and looking at all of the lego creations. When the park closed we went to a bakery to get delicious danish pastry. Mind you, this is not the crap American version of danish pastry this is the real McCoy. After filling up on pastry we drove back toward Copenhagen to stay with Ulla and her family. Ulla was a girl who stayed with our family almost 30 years ago. My dad had baptised her family some 50 years ago. We had a great time visiting with her family and they were so nice to let us intrude on their lives.


The next morning we went into Copenhagen. We saw the original Christus in a Copenhagen church. We walked around the city and ended up on a very quaint street lined with boats and restaurants. We took a small boat cruise in the harbor to see some of the sites that way. We missed out on seeing the little mermaid in the harbor. She was on loan to China for the next 6 months or so. That's a little disapointing!
Sunday we went to church with Ulla and her family. (It will be nice to come back to the states and finally understand sacrament meeting.) After church we drove to Frederiksberg castle and saw the Carl Bloch paintings of Christ in the castle. The church uses many of his paintings. Check out a gospel art book. They are beautiful in person. We walked around the grounds, they were beautiful.

Monday we drove to Sweden to saw that we went to Sweden. We were going to stop in Malmo but none of the parking meters would take our credit cards to we turned around and drove back to Copenhagen. We went to Tivoli gardens, the oldes amusement park in the world. It was really beautiful there and we had a great time riding the rides. Both the new ones and the really old ones. This was my kids favorite day.!
Tuesday we sent my parents off back to the US and we had a few more hours so we took the metro back into town and bought more pastries and walked around until our flight left. We had a great time