Helsingør

Today we took a train to Helsingør. Here, we saw the domkirke (with the altar piece that was 12 meters high and covered in gold) This was impressive... We then went over to the abbey church, were there was an organ concert. The organ sounded wonderful. The church wasn't much to look at, but the organ was amazing. Then my brother got to go up and try the organ, and impress yet another full-time organist with his skills. Pretty cool stuff. Then we went and got ice cream. While eating ice cream, we hopped on a train and drove to Hillorød. This is where Frediriksborg is; a small castle with a crazy big garden. The garden starts with a small hedge work with the monograms of four royals. Then as you move up (there are little hills you have to walk up, so it is up) Here there are a bunch of hedges and a "river" in the middle. As you move up, there are 3 ponds and more hedges. Then there is a big forest. It's big, big enough for me to run a 5k in, which is what I did. Then we went to the castles church (which we could only view from above...) There was so much gold! So much gold! There were also all the plagues for the two highest orders hanging in the church, the elephant order, and the Dannebrog (Danish flag's name) order. This was a weird place to have those hanging. Then we went and saw parts of the castle, which was composed of a lot of paintings. Here I was with my grandparents, which was nice. We then went and got more ice cream. After dinner we got more ice cream, yet again. Then we took a train back to Copenhagen. Here is where I came to the realization that I am losing my English-ness, and gaining Danish. That's not good.....