Tim Tam and Patty: Excursion to Copenhagen, Denmark

What an experience we had! We decided on our trip to Copenhagen, Denmark we would take the overnight train from Arnhem, Holland to Copenhagen, Denmark. Well we both only got 3 hours of sleep if we were lucky. The train ride was very rough with hard sudden stops and now we know why there are bars on the side of your bed. Its to hold you in your bed on the rough ride. Well we finally arrived in Copenhagen at 11:00am and headed to the Tourist Information to get a map of the city of Copenhagen. After we called Mette at her work but she was in a meeting so her colleague said he would meet us to take our luggage. When we walked up to where she worked we were in awe as she works at the Det Ny Teater (The New Theatre.) Her colleague told us some places we had to see in Copenhagen so we continued out to journey around the city. But we realized we were hungry and we went to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe where the bathroom door says No Drugs or Nuclear Weapons Allowed, really?! We had a good laugh about it! After we continued on our Walking Tour threw the city. We first started at Town Hall and continued towards the King's Gardens and Rosenborg Castle. When we walked into the Gardens the first thing Tam said is "My mom sure would love to have a garden like this, the only bad thing we would never see her except for her sun hat bouncing across the yard." We played in the children's area within the King's Gardens as you could ride on dragons! Then we continued to Kastellet an old Military Base and finally continued to the statue of the Little Mermaid. Then we continued our walk past The Gefion Fountain which was absolutely stunning and towards Amalienborg Castle , Nyhavn and saw Sand Sculptures be created which was interesting! We continued our walk back to Mette's work and she gave us a tour within the theatre! The Phantom of the Opera, Singing in the Rain, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins are some of the famous musicals that have played in their theatre. Right now they're preparing to premier Love Never Dies and will be the 3rd theatre in the world to show this musical which is the sequel to Phantom of the Opera. We then went home with Mette to meet Dick (Frank's friend from school) and stay with them for 2 nights. We really enjoyed the visits with Bettina (Dick's daughter), Emiel (Dick's son), Dick and Mette and want to thank them deeply for their amazing hopsitality during our stay. We really loved our trip to Copenhagen! We decided we were going to take the day train back to Holland yesterday and even got to take a ferry across with the train below. It was a different experience for Tam but even when the waves were rough she made it through. We arrived back in Deventer yesterday around 7:40pm and lucky for us Monique was there to pick us up.