Kobenhavn

I was far too exhausted by the end of the night (that would be 10 pm) to write anything intelligible, but took sooooo many photos yesterday that I've got to update now. Someone had her first day of school yesterday!


I think her expression explains that we woke up at 6:30 to make pancakes for the family.

While everyone was hustling about, doing important thinks like going to school and work, I went on a walk to see the cows again, armed with my camera this time. I took a ton of photos - the fields are so amazing! You can see the beautiful landscape behind the cow in this photo, with a lake way in the back there.


Clearly, I caught him mid-sentence.


These ones were posing for me. In the whole huge field, there couldn't have been more than about fifteen cows, which is really nice.

Since Elisabeth had class until three, I went to the Museum of Danish Resistance 1940-1945 and wandered around that area for a while. The museum was really cool and covered Denmark's Nazi occupation during World War II. Some resistance efforts included industrial sabotage, but since the Danes would be using their factories for their own needs after the war, one tactic was to pour some really smelly liquid on machines to temporarily prevent them from being used. There was also info on secret communications, like illegal newspapers and radio - BBC in Danish was not outlawed, but the antennae necessary to receive it were banned mid-war. The British dropped supplies and later arms for the underground army, broadcasting the locations on BBC in code.


Danish Jews escaped to neutral Sweden via rail or boat - I think this buoy was used to mark receiving posts.


I also went to Kastellet, one of northern Europe's best-preserved fortifications. That was particularly interesting because I vaguely remember going there five years ago with Elisabeth's family.

At three, I met her at a fountain near Amalienborg, where we also met up with Hjalte (pronounced kind of like yelt-a). His dad is friends with one of Elisabeth's uncles and her mom thought they should meet. He was really nice and showed us more of the city, including the Norrebro area. It's less touristy but still had a lot of restaurants (we stopped for coffee/ice cream), which are less expensive because it's outside the center of the city.

We headed home around five or six, which meant the S-train was packed for rush hour, and spent the rest of the evening jumping on the trampoline, eating, and playing a dice game.

Today is my last full day here!