It was due to timing and a calendar being too full that our trip to Denmark got scheduled in mid-February. We had plenty of warnings about the climate from the locals but it was then or sometime in 2013. And no-one can blame Olivia for wanting to meet the people her and John have invited to their wedding… So on February 15, Isabella, Olivia and John took off for Copenhagen. No clouds until Northern Germany, but after that we saw the sun only on occasion. It didn’t matter – we were treated so well by good friends and family that the weather didn’t matter. We didn’t eat out once – all prepared meals in their homes, and we left Denmark with a strong sense of friendships that will last a lifetime.
All in all we saw more than 20 people in a four-day period. Among them John’s mom and John’s dad + Birgit. Olivia got to see where John grew up and the farm his grandparents had once owned.
We also walked the streets of Copenhagen and visited museums, castles, old neighborhoods and some of the tourist traps. Olivia even found time to do some shopping at Georg Jensen, Royal Copenhagen and a “few” other places.
We got back Tuesday and were very happy to reconnect with Adriana, Bella and Pia who had missed us very much! Isabella missed one day of school but has since caught up. She didn’t sleep on the plane coming back, jumped straight into the homework routine and ran off to gymnastics at 7:00. Must be the Danish licorice or something like that…