We spend the rest of our travel day recovering from the jet lag which worked pretty well. We were served a wonderful Danish dinner of new potatoes, frikadeller (seasoned meat patties), and polser (hotdogs, only much better).
For our first day of touring in Denmark, we visited a city called Odense. We started out with lunch at a cafe with Alice, and David's sisters Jonna and Jennifer and their families. Odense has a Hans Christian Andersen musuem and the house that they think he was born in. There were a few things that struck me when learning more about HC Andersen. He obviously had a big impact through his stories like the Ugly Duckling and the Little Mermaid to name a few more popular ones. And his talent of telling stories was recognized and rewarded during his time. Not many artistic and creative people can claim the same. He also loved to do paper cuttings. Still to this day most danish households have intricate paper cut outs at least for their Christmas tree decorations and many for window decorations other times of the year. This all stems from Hans Christian Anderson. He had an incredible impact on his country.
The babies weren't very excited about most of the museum exhibits, but we kept them busy going from yellow square to yellow square.
We walked around the old part of Odense when we were done with the museum. The babies' cousin Tommy was entertaining them with Peek a Boo while some people stopped for souveniers.
For our first day of touring in Denmark, we visited a city called Odense. We started out with lunch at a cafe with Alice, and David's sisters Jonna and Jennifer and their families. Odense has a Hans Christian Andersen musuem and the house that they think he was born in. There were a few things that struck me when learning more about HC Andersen. He obviously had a big impact through his stories like the Ugly Duckling and the Little Mermaid to name a few more popular ones. And his talent of telling stories was recognized and rewarded during his time. Not many artistic and creative people can claim the same. He also loved to do paper cuttings. Still to this day most danish households have intricate paper cut outs at least for their Christmas tree decorations and many for window decorations other times of the year. This all stems from Hans Christian Anderson. He had an incredible impact on his country.
The babies weren't very excited about most of the museum exhibits, but we kept them busy going from yellow square to yellow square.
We walked around the old part of Odense when we were done with the museum. The babies' cousin Tommy was entertaining them with Peek a Boo while some people stopped for souveniers.
To let the kids have some fun we stopped by a park before heading home.
Grandma helped Kadence pick some flowers out of the grass.
Hello from Denmark!
Austin liked walking along the wall at the park and jumping off the end. Cousin Betsy is leading the procession, cousin Zac is bringing up the rear.
When we got back the the house, we found Mia and her family waiting for us. They had just flown in. That night we had a danish chicken soup and then went swimming in the indoor pool. What a great day!
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