Sweden & Denmark Trip (Day 3)

Saturday was our only day to really explore Denmark so we tried to get an earlier start. It was probably the coldest day of the trip but I think it was just because we were close to the coast most of the time and the wind coming off of it was a little cooler. The temperature was around 50 but I'm sure the wind chill brought it down 5 degrees or so. I wore a small jacket the whole time but of course Randy just had a t-shirt and shorts. He did get a few looks from people who couldn't believe what they were seeing since everyone there wore at least a light coat. Randy said he never got cold though. For us coming from 100 degree weather in St G that week, we were thinking it felt pretty good. Ü

Our first stop of the day was at a WWII museum about the Danish Resistance. I didn't take any pics there but I thought it was very interesting and they had quite a few artifacts and things from the war and about those who helped in smuggling people from Denmark to Sweden. I could have spent more time there but we still had a lot to see so we kept going.

Not far from the museum is the most popular attraction in Copenhagen...the statue of the Little Mermaid. Well, as (our) luck would have it, the statue has been moved to Shanghai for the World Expo until November. So, instead of seeing the actual statue, we saw a video screen set up in the water with streaming video of it in China.

Next we took a mini tour of a marble cathedral. They are doing renovations of it right now so it's hard to get the full effect with the scaffolding but it was an amazing building made mostly of marble.

This it looking up at the dome from inside

Around the top of the walls in the chapel was some

kind of saying where we found our name Ü

Just down the street from the marble church is the Royal Palace. We timed it so we could be there right at noon when they do the changing of the guard. That was kind of a fun ceremony to see.

Changing out the main group of guards.

I love their big hats Ü

They're not allowed to talk to you but we had

to get our pictures taken by one

Since we had time we decided to go back by the temple again and take some pictures in the daylight. It was hard to see the red bricks in the pictures we took the night before. The building was actually a church that was built in the 1930's that they converted into a temple. One of the workers told us that the front was all original.

After we felt like we had seen what there was to see in Copenhagen, we drove about 30 miles north to a town called Hillerod to see the summer residence of the royal family. It was an amazing place with some fabulous architecture. We even saw a couple taking their wedding pictures there.

Inside the courtyard

We walked down a trail to the other side of the

river to get this picture

After leaving Hillerod, we drove another 30 miles to Roskilde where there is a viking ship museum. They have found 5 ships that had sunk in the harbor and have put them on display inside the museum. It was pretty amazing to stand next to these 'ships' and think about how it would be to be crammed inside one with another 50-60 people.

This is one of the ships they found and rebuilt and did

a test trip in to see what it was like to navigate

The church in Roskilde

After leaving Roskilde, we headed toward our hotel which was back across the bridge in Malmo, Sweden. It only cost us about $52 each way to go across this massive bridge/tunnel. The airport in Copenhagen is right on the coast so since they couldn't build a bridge over the airport, they tunnelled under the ocean and airport instead. It's about 8 miles long and pretty impressive that something like that could be built.