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Dick woke up early
and looked out of the window in time to see the sun rising over the coast of
Sweden as the ship sailed south between Denmark and Sweden.
We woke up at
7:10 with the message: welcome to Copenhagen, we will now begin the
disembarking process. Yikes, we still needed to finish packing and have
breakfast. Luckily when we need to, we both can get ready fast. We packed and
had some nice goodbyes with a couple of the staff who had been especially nice
to us. Our big suitcases were waiting for us on the dock. In spite of the many suitcases, they were well organized and we quickly found ours. And so after 12 days, Goodbye Zuiderdam. Thanks so much for giving us a great Baltic Cruise.
Our Danish cousin
Julie gave us great directions on how to catch the bus and then the train to
their house. We did fine following the green dots on the sidewalk and caught
the bus immediately. The train was a bit more complicated to figure out... but
several helpful people helped us figure out where we needed to go to catch the
right train. ( everyone kept trying to get to airport... we looked like
we must be tourists going to the airport). But we got to our correct train
station and found our way to Lars and Julie’s home. They had been at. Huge
music festival the night before, and unfortunately we woke them up trying to
unlock the door, but success! We made it. After more rest
for everyone , time to catch up for a nice day together.
The weather was
iffy but we still wanted to go to hear a fine English singing Jazz singer Sinne
Eeg. The concert was amazing. Her songs were so fun to listen to and so well
done. However the weather went up and down: cloudy, sprinkling, stopping , rain though got hard. We got soaked! But, that is Danish weather. They say you can have
all four seasons in the same day.
We then walk just
a little way to the American Plaza where ships headed out to America in the
past. We were on the hunt for a statue called Kristina, that was crafted after
the great great aunt of our friend in San Diego, Marilyn Mcphie. We were so
pleased to not only find the statue, but ran into a family there who is also
looking for the statue with a daughter who’s name was Kristina. We enjoyed
speaking with them telling them the history we knew, and of course taking a
picture of Patti looking out into the ocean ready for the brave New World.
From there it was
not too long of a walk to the little mermaid statue. Patti had seen it briefly
before, and Dick had never seen it. Lars and Julie laughed that native
Copenhagen people really never got down to see the statue. It was surrounded by
swarms of tourists, and the photo process wasn’t that satisfying. But we saw
her. And it’s true she’s not a big mermaid, but not a tiny mermaid.
From there we
walked on to an old fortress shaped like a star. It was beautiful grounds to
want to round on, as well as understanding that there still are dangerous
troops that are stationed out of there. A lovely walk.
We enjoyed the
fact that not only we saw some swans, but we saw some baby swans. And some
ducks. Hans Christian Andersen got a lot of his inspiration in this very area.
It’s a little magical watching those birds.
Back to the house
to dry out and we decided just to eat dinner and stay in rather than headed
back out to the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. The festival goes for 10 days with
probably 150 to 200 concerts during that time. We hope to catch some more over
this next week. But tonight it was nice just to stay home, do a little laundry,
and be happy to be together.
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