Jobless in England: March 2014

I have been putting off this post because I have been too lazy to up-load pictures. I take a thousand pictures on our trips and can never decide which ones I like the best! I can't even imagine what it will be like when I have kids... I just know their lives will be VERY well documented. Anyway, Simon and I went to Denmark 2 weeks before I headed back to the states. We both have ancestors from there (my great-great grandfather and someone great on his side), so we thought it would be fun to go. Plus, he really wanted to go somewhere in Scandinavia. We left on a Tuesday afternoon and arrived that evening. It is kind of expensive to stay there, but luckily I found this quaint little place online for a cheap price. When we got there the owner of the home was very nice and spoke English quite well. It was a decent sized room and we shared a bathroom with 3 Slovaks. Haha. I did not know I would be sharing a bathroom with 4 men on this trip, but it actually worked out fine.

Before I get to the pictures there are a few things you should know about Copenhagen (and probably Denmark in general). Almost everyone speaks English and speaks it well. The people ride their bikes everywhere... I mean even more so than in Germany. When they aren't riding their bikes they walk. I even saw a guy using dry skis on the sidewalk. Also, tons of them run! They are very fit because of this. They inspire me to not use my car so much.

I can't remember the names of all of the places we went to, but we did see the famous Little Mermaid statue in honor of Hans Christian Andersen. We also saw the original Christus statute that the LDS church has replicated in many of their temple visitor's centers. That was probably one of my favorite things. The church it is housed in is very simple by European standards, but so powerful. When you walk in the 12 apostles line both sides of the walls (6 on each side) leading to the Christ at the front of the church's altar. We enjoyed spending some thoughtful and meditative time there.

We also saw the LDS temple there. We got lost trying to locate it so we stopped these 3 people to see if they could point us in the right direction. They looked to be in their late 20's and it turns out they were LDS! What a small world. And to make the world even smaller, one of them had served their mission in the Manchester England Mission (the mission Simon and I were currently living in). Of all the people we could have stopped.

Anyway, here are some pictures from the trip:

This is one of my favorites

Changing of the guard at the palace

Hans Christian Andersen

A palace that is now used as a military training center

One of my favorite pieces of art at a museum we went to, the colors are amazing

Simon was depicting this man... he said it is what men feel like when they go shopping with a girl

They even had a free art room at the museum where you could sketch and such

Danish Kronor- their currency

Some of the apostle statues at the church

Christ

Cool rings at a museum

I didn't know narwhal's really existed! Simon had to inform me they did when I saw this at the museum. I thought it was made-up, like fairies and unicorns.