Copenhagen : Day 2

Friday morning started out with a beautiful sunrise outside our window-- EVEN THOUGH it was supposed to rain :)

There were even boats outside our window on the canal.

Copenhagen is a beautiful city and we were lucky enough to stay near one of the nicest canal areas, Nyhavn.  It's famous for its restaurants (though they're very expensive).  It looks a lot like Amsterdam-- which reminded me of the awesome Canal Houses the fourth graders made last year!  

Denmark is supposed to be the country where danishes originated, so we had to find some authentic Danish pastries for breakfast.  We found a bakery called Reihn. Van Hauen.  I have to say that the actual Danish "danish" wasn't that great, but there was this cream filled chocolate covered one that was AWESOME!  We walked around for a while (to let our breakfast go down), and decided while it was nice out we should take a boat tour of the canals.

The boat tour was really awesome, though it was also REALLY cold!!  We learned a bit of history about Copenhagen, but unfortunately, the pictures weren't as nice as they might have been if it hadn't gotten cloudy :(

Here's a picture from the canal tour:

After the canal tour we were so cold we had to go back to the hotel to warm up!!

Next, it was off to the Carlsberg Brewery for a brewery tour (and hopefully a snack!)

The Carlsberg Brewery was a pretty cool place.  You could take a self-guided tour (similar to the one at the Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam), so we really didn't get to see the actual beer being made, but it was fun anyway.

The coolest part of the tour was a room with the largest beer collection in the world.

That's a lot of beer!

After a fun-filled tour we stopped in at the bar for a free drink and some incredible grilled cheese sandwiches.

That concluded our stay at the Brewery, but right nearby was supposed to be the Cisterne, an old water resevior under Søndermarken, which has been converted into a glass museum.  I love all art museums, but my mom was excited to see this one too since she does glass work herself.

Of course, it proved to be a difficult place to find, as it was in the center of a park and it wasn't a large building or anything... in fact, it didn't look like a museum at all.  Here is the entrance.

But after we found it, we were glad we kept looking.  (We even had to ask for help from an older gentleman that only spoke Danish!!)

It was probably the coolest museum I've ever been in, and being an art teacher, I've been to a lot of museums!

It was really dark and damp and all the glass works were lit by spotlights.

 

I didn't want to leave, but we didn't really want to sleep there, so after walking through it three or four times, we headed back into the main part of town.

That night, we headed to Tivoli Gardens, the second oldest amusement park in the world.  It was lit up beautifully at night.  

My mom and I aren't really ride people, so we walked around and had dinner.  My mom had abelskivers, a Danish doughnut-type dessert (I had a Belgian waffle-- not exactly Danish...).

Then it was back to the hotel for the night.