Christmastime in Copenhagen

Christmas month, as they call it, starts the last weekend in November. It is quite festive! The city kicks things off downtown by lighting all the outdoor lights - they put up lights that hang between buildings - they are covered with garland and have hearts hanging from them - and also lighting the main Christmas tree at city hall. Christmas markets pop up throughout the city on this day as well and are open for the month - you can buy hand made crafts, the kids can play and adults can drink mulled wine. Here we are downtown for the big kick off.

The week following, all the little main streets in the suburbs also put up Christmas trees and have lighting ceremonies. Santa and his helpers drive around one day in the afternoon and stop by all the main streets to hand out candy to all the kids. He drives in style, in a old school fire truck. Here we are at the celebration on our Charlottenlund main street.

 

Raegan's school has a big Christmas Market fundraiser that we all went to. Santa was there - after a bit of bribery we got Wyatt to sit on his lap without screaming for the first year!...this is a little surprising since this was a super creepy Santa! There was an arts and crafts kids room they both had fun in.

 

Then we got out our meager Christmas decorations a little earlier than normal since we were leaving town on Dec 12. Here is our tiny tree - the kids picked out a few of their favorite ornaments to put on. So we obviously didn't have any Christmas lights that worked here with the different voltage and all...I just want to note that this tiny tree has TWO Danish strands of lights. Haven't quite seen strands of lights so small!



And finally, we did get one night of "snow" - it was really ice pellets that lasted maybe 24 hours. Baxter really loves this kind of weather. Wyatt loves to eat snow.