Castles, National Museum, Elves

Yesterday was my Copenhagen sightseeing day by myself, and I sure did cover some ground. Elisabeth was busy with orientation for most of the day, but met me for lunch in a park between sessions. Afterwards, I set off with a map to do some sightseeing. Morten suggested I visit the parliament building and I remembered liking Amalienborg Palace (the winter home for the Danish royal family), so I set those as my destinations and took a roundabout route there, spending some time along the water and also checking out a few of the pedestrian streets. The photos I posted below are the two palaces (slot is the Danish word used for castle/palace), Christianborg (now parliament) on the top and Amalienborg on the bottom. I left my memory card in my computer and took the camera without it, but had to post these photos I found online.



Today, we met for lunch in a different park and Elisabeth got to join me for more touring. I really wanted to see the National Museum, so we spent the afternoon there. It's a huge museum, which covers the entire cultural history of Denmark and is housed in a historic mansion (we saw an exhibit that traced the history of the building, originally as the home of a wealthy merchant, but added to over time) almost in the center of the city. Elisabeth's program had an activity fair at 5, so we only had a few hours to learn about everything that ever happened in Denmark.



We took as many interactive photos as we could. I think the horns suit her.


Danish fashion - bronze age era.


I found another cannon! After I got so excited over the ones at Kronborg, I didn't even have to ask Elisabeth to take a photo of me with it.




If you look at the glass cylinder, you can see the not-so-contorted image of the king. Who thinks of things like this?

We had to rush at the end, breezing through the second half of the "Denmark 1660-2000" exhibit to make it to the activities fair, where a guy approached us with information on live action role playing. They had a bunch of medieval replica gear and he said that a lot of women like to be elves...I don't quite remember why, but something about dancing and singing in the forest.