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Tivoli (and then hop skip and jump and I'm home)

Today I was in Tivoli. That was a lot of fun. I did a lot of rides, ate good food, and had a good time. I really like Denmark. I really like the language, I like the people I like the smallness. I don't want to go back to brown New Mexico. Sorry guys, but I really don't. It's so boring there. DK is better, plus the food is better... I'm flying home tomorrow... so gross.....

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

Today I went to Tivoli again. This time I didn't get to try anything (that is first tomorrow again :P) I went to have lunch, and ice cream. I went to enjoy the gardens, and witness the theater and the plays they had today.  The theater is amazing. The curtain is practically a peacock with its tail spread. The weird thing is it goes down, not up. The first play was called the mechanical statue. It was super funny... The ballet in the piece was not amazing, but I enjoyed it because of the slapstick comedy. The second one was the story of the Steadfast Tin Soldier. It had amazingly great ballet... It was amazing ballet... You have no idea. They were all so good!!!! Later we say the Tivoli guards. This is a bunch of kids who dress up in Danish Royal guard costumes (with bear fur hat and everything) and walk through Tivoli playing folk songs. This is fun. I also packed. I'm so close to leaving :0... I like Denmark. It’s not brown like NM... It’s nice. I can get everywhere with my feet, bus or train. People are nice. I like it here.

Cemetery

Today I went to the national museum again. Here I saw many cool international things, like three mummies. That is something I have never seen before. There was a lot of Egyptian stuff, as well as some Ancient Greek artifacts. Enjoyed it very much. I also say a bunch of random stuff in the museum, so I will not talk about that. Then we went to the assistant cemetery. This was the poor cemetery outside of Copenhagen in old days. Then Copenhagen grew... and some famous people were buried there. Now it is more important then the original Cemetery. There is a bunch of super famous people buried there. We say many interesting graves. We say H.C Anderson, and a composer and some other authors, and Neils Bohr. Which was hilariously puny. This is because Bohr sounds like the word for lives at. So I keep asking, where does Niels live. It kinda made my mom mad... The end

Yesterday (yet again.........)

Yesterday I went to a small museum in Ameliaborg. Ameliaborg is the castle that the royal family lives in during the winter. There was a museum in one of the many buildings, which held some interesting stuff. One of the weirdest things was the American flag in one of the old kings offices. This was given to the king on the first American independence day celebration.  There was also a room with 200kg of silver in 5 sculptures. These were given to the king, for some occasion (I can't remember what it was, but it could have been his 50th wedding anniversary.) Then we went to look a church, officially, it is called Fredrick's church, but most people refer to it as the marble church. This was a weird church because it didn't follow the pattern all the other churches do... it was a circle rather then a crucifix. We then went to see a nearby Russian orthodox church. I have never been in a Russian orthodox church, but I thought it was realllllly cool. After this we took a train to my grandparents house and we were there for along time. This was fun, because my grandpa told us stories from his childhood. He got out his old toys that were bought just a few years after the war. This means that the fire trucks didn't have rubber tires, but rather metal. The hoses were paper rather then rubber.  He also told us that the toys during the war were made of wood (so a tin solider would actually be made of wood) because of the war efforts. This made today one of the best days in Denmark.

Yesterday (again, again)

Yesterday, I went on a train to a small town in North Shetland. Here I met my moms friend Knud and Grete. Grete is an amazing filter. She spends every day with wool, and making cool things with wool.  She helped me make a panda bear. It turned out pretty weird... Still, I had fun making it. My brothers both made bags..... Ya, slow day I guess, didn't do much....

Roskilde Domkirke

Today we left the apartment at noon and went to Roskilde by train. This was kind of hard, because right now there are hundreds of people travelling to Roskilde because of the music festival that is taking place there. At Roskilde, we went to see the domkirke. This domkirke is where the majority of the royal family is buried. It has many crypts, and cool places to see. I enjoyed it a lot. Then we went to Copenhagen and I prepared for a race. I ran a 5k in Copenhagen and I set my personal best. I ran the 5 kilometers in 20:40! Now I feel dead...