Three more great Danish days. Saturday we had a wet but fun-filled day at Tivoli gardens, where Eli and Ingrid did tons of rides and I enjoyed keeping my feet on solid ground (except for a ferris wheel ride!). We had a wonderful lunch of very traditional smørrebrød (open faced sandwiches with assorted pickled or smoked fish, eaten with fork and knife), and enjoyed the traditional pantomime in the Peacock Theater (in the rain), the jazz band (with a great Tom Jones-style singer), and stayed for the 11:45 fireworks.
Sunday we took a train west to the summer house of Klemens and Ana (and Rosa, Sarah, and Sunneva) in Høby. We ate and ate, visited the fish market (to get more to eat) and briefly hung out at the beach and waded in the North Sea (warmer than Santa Cruz water) until sandblast from the wind drove us home. Today, back in Copenhagen, we slept in a bit of the cold, misty morning, then took the train across to the amber museum and climbed the Round Tower.
We then headed out to the suburbs to visit Hanne's cousin Kristian and his Greenlander wife Judithe for a long afternoon of stories of life in Greenland and multiple rounds of cakes, sweets, and alcohols.
Eli was particularly fascinated by getting to watch home movies about dog sledding from the 1970s -- on a genuine super 8 reel-to-reel movie projector! The genuine narwhal tusk, walrus tusks, and stool made of walrus penises were pretty special too. Elias and Kristian made a great connection over track when we shared a picture of Eli throwing discus. It turned out that Kristian was the Danish champion discus thrower - in 1953 - throwing the discus about three times farther than Eli's best throw. What a hyggelig day!
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