Europe - Copenhagen and Tivoli Gardens

The conference that Barbara was attending had sessions that she was interested in for the first 4 days. During that time, Delilah and I had a number of adventures, ranging from Delilah playing with the children's toys in their room (legos of course, since it is Denmark, the home of Legos, along with other stuff), to touring around  Copenhagen, going to Tivoli Gardens (which is what Walt Disney based Disneyland on), seeing The Little Mermaid statue, and taking lots of pictures. I brought some cameras for Delilah to use, and she really took to it - interesting her pictures (which I will include in a separate blog entry) focusing mostly on flowers and birds, but a pretty cool angle on stuff.  

The apartment was very cozy, and having a full kitchen and a market near by, we were able to eat at least one and often two meals a day there. That's important when a hamburger, frys and soda is $18 (seriously). We had a reasonably nice family style dinner one night which was over $100 for three entres with some sides... Of course, food was actually more expensive in Norway - where the "cheap italian" place was close to $130 for pasta and pizza and a cheap (by quality standards, not by cost) glass of wine.  The most memorable was the high-falutin bar in Copenhagen where drinks were $35 each.  Turns out, houses are much cheaper, and wages are higher to compensate, since it turns out that their adjusted income is actually a little lower than average US. 

Copenhagen has many parks both for walking, and for children play. Denmark is the "home" of the Cohousing movement, and many of the building have the feel of "community on an industrial scale". 

Spring had sprung - many flowers, Orchids, Asters, Azaleas, Crocus  

 

Statue of the the forming of the city from the swamp by oxen. There was also a slain dragon in there somewhere... 

Delilah and the little mermaid 

One of many windmills. This one on its side :) 

Tivoli Gardens, over a hundred years old, has themed areas along with the rides. 

A very tired Delilah and Barbara at Tivoli

A rock concert at Tivoli

The hotel with the high-falutin bar

I love the iconography of this above the door to the city hall - a chicken brooding over her chicks; the social image of support and care. 

Turns out that Legoland was 4 hours out of town, so we didn't make it this time. However, there were lego stores EVERYwhere. 

A very European Plaza