Grandparents arrive!

We were all so excited to have my parents make the long journey over and visit us - it has been 7 long months since we have seen any family and we miss everyone.

We had a great time showing them our new home and new Danish lifestyle (sans car, etc). They were definitely troopers, hanging in there with all the walking (even more than we normally do since biking was not an option) to and from the train stations, riding busses, etc. No taxis for us!! :-)

The day of arrival - they made it, cheers! (the kids are distracted by the gifts...)

We started the visit by walking the 1.5 mile each way trek to the Charlottenlund beach, we went through the Charlottenlund slot property

 Dad's first $7 cup of Danish coffee

 

Then we picked up Raegan from school and headed downtown for the canal cruise tour out of Nyhavn, followed by dinner at a pub down there

on the train

 A drink at Nyhavn before the canal cruise

 the opera house

 the (underwhelming) little mermaid

 there are about 11 of the super low bridges that you actually have to duck for on the canal cruise

 the sand sculpture festival

We also went down to see the Rosenborg Castle and Kings Gardens, they were amazed by the double decker bike parking at the Norrebro train station

 

Wyatt and I hung out on the lawn since it's not worth the price of admission to take Wyatt in just to shush him the whole time. He did enjoy lining up his trucks though

 

 Ron met up with us after work at the Norrebro Bryghus - it was really great, definitely something to try again!

 Enjoying the walk to the train station to get home

 More of the ever-present European graffiti...

 ...and unique and interesting billboard art

 This is the Charlottenlund train station, the one nearest to us- quite pretty

 Not really sure what to say about this ad below - we unfortunately/fortunately did not attend any of this festival that our commune put on (this translates to Denmark's street theater festival)...wonder what that might have been like!!

 

Over the weekend we took a day trip on the train to Malmo, Sweden. We happened to go on the most eventful weekend there for their big music festival. There was a big carnival, stages for music, and tents set up in several areas for this festival.

 

St. Peter's Cathedral

King's Park



The Turning Torso

Oresund Bridge to Copenhagen

We found the beer garden at the festival

 We also took a trip up to Helsingor to see Hamlet's Castle.



The train station in Helsingor

Kronborg Castle

 



Wyatt was doing his "circus tricks"

Raegan started her English speaking horse riding lessons later that afternoon. She did really well!

We finished out Gramma and Grampa's visit to Copenhagen by showing them Osterbro - where our apartment was - and taking them to Bakken Amusement park.

Then we were off to the second portion of their visit - a week in Costa Brava Spain (Blanes)! ...will be a separate post...