Copenhagen Day 2

For our first full day in Copenhagen, we started with a family bike tour of the city. It ended up being about a 10 mile overview of Copenhagen. The day was a beautiful, perfect cycling day. We enjoyed it, though we were exhausted.

The Copenhagen Opera House:

Tim and his trike:

Maya tried out the trike. It was hard work!

Random trampolines in the ground along the harbor...

We biked out to the Little Mermaid literally just long enough to snap this photo.

Family photo in Amelianborg:

Then we had lunch. This was at a food stall area just south of the harbor. We had hot dogs (polsers) and beer/cider.

After lunch, we walked from Christianshavn to the Royal Library, through the Danish Jewish Museum, and spent the lion's share of the afternoon in the Christiansborg Castle complex. We saw the royal rooms (complete with a fantastic scavenger hunt for kids), the kitchens, and the ruins, where there was great information about the fires that consumed the buildings previously on the same location. We then walked to the King's Garden and just played for a while before going to dinner near the hotel.

This is the church where we met the tour guide in the morning. We went to go climb this tower after lunch, but it was randomly closed. Tim went back the next day...

The building that houses the Danish Jewish Museum:

Christianborg Palace:

Scavenger hunting. Nice booties, eh?

The girls got tiaras...

If you look closely, you'll see that this spire is made of three intertwined dragon tails:

The lesser known Agnete and the Merman statue (literally right in central Copenhagen, just up the street from Christianborg):

We also climbed the Round Tower:

In the King's Garden:

Rosenburg Castle (in the King's Garden):