Walk with cousins

Not much to say here, but we did find an interesting old fortress and a swan with babies and we saw a sand sculpture festival.
It's worth looking at the sand sculptures here:
http://imgur.com/a/16kPw

Frilandsmuseet

An open air free admission museum that we visited also in Denmark. It's a bunch of relocated olde houses, from the 1600's all the way to one that is from the 1900's, but most of them are from the 1700's. They're all thatched roofs, and a lot of them have courtyards as well. I noticed that no matter what the inhabitants do (farmer, cobbler, weaver etc.), they all have at least some chickens and pigs. Most of them also had a cow, horse or goat though.
It was really dark inside back then, so I can see why they wanted to spend most of their time outdoors. The doors and doorways were super short as well, about half the height of a modern door. The best thing about those houses is the beds looked very cozy, because for one thing they were short small things in large cupboards, and for another each place only had two or three beds which meant for the families with five kids that all five kids would share a bed, mom and dad would get one, and any grandparents still living would get the third.
After the museum we had dinner with some cousins, and when they were giving us a ride home Hillary Clinton made us turn the wrong way and cross a bridge. There was huge police escort: at least 11 motorbikes and a line or two of cars after that; we didn't even see the vehicle they were escorting.

Viking museum

So in Denmark we also went to a Viking museum, where they had reconstructed at least fifteen Viking boats using traditional tools and traditional types of wood. That means that the resulting boats were as close as we could get to real Viking boats. Most of them were small fishing boats (one of which we got to row in, and I got to steer, but it started to rain a lot, and there wasn't a lot of wind so our sail could only make the boat go so fast) but one was a long war boat for at least 60 people, which they sailed around the coast for at about three weeks a couple of years ago.
These people dug up five different Viking age boat remains that had been used to block a harbor passage in their time, and spent 25 years restoring the wood to be out of the water, and what they found of each boat is now on display at the museum. Then they made 1:1 models of each ship, and the biggest one (crew of 80) they think probably participated in the war for the English crown.

P. S.
Web address for pictures of the museum/ us in Viking clothes:
http://imgur.com/a/8bp7k

Rosenburg Castle

Is apparently just a summer castle, but when I saw it, it looked pretty big to me. It's guarded by modern soldiers pacing about, and it's funny because it's such a big contrast to the guards and the castle behind it.
Everything there is ornate. They don't just have a clock for each room, they have unique grandfather clocks that have tiny figures (inlaid with gold and silver, of course) hitting bells, and doing various other activities every fifteen minutes.
They keep some super fancy clothes for the king: he even wore a crown-like nightcap to bed. There are authentic bloodstains on the coat he wore to battle, as well as diamond-butted pistols next to swords that look like they weigh as much as a small horse.
They keep three crowns blanketed with diamonds there. A really old one that a king running low on funds had to pawn and then the next king had to buy it back, and two more modern ones for a king and his prince. The princes crown looks only just big enough to fit Tobin, and I can just imagine a five year old prince fidgeting in his throne, while his mum and dad sit through a ceremony and wait to whisk the million dollar crown before it breaks.
There was a giant hall of amber and ivory artifacts, and the most amazing thing there was an ivory ship, completely complete as far as I could tell. It's even more impressive when you think that no modern tools were used.
The photos were taken by the Nikon for this trip, and they're too big to post, so here's a web address to those photos on imgur:
http://imgur.com/a/alfOZ

P. S.
Make sure you find the ones of the crowns with giant rubies and sapphires, and the ivory ship.

Pictures

If you want to see some high quality photos from our trip, Lise and Jeff are posting them here:

http://lisejensen.imgur.com/

The Round Tower

is a tower that is round. And from a very long time ago, because the observatory was the first in Europe. We went there, and there's no stairs to get to the top: it's a long ramp. Made of bricks, like everything else.
They have three things there: the observatory, the library (but not anymore, now it's a modern art studio) and the church. I think it was also a university, and I know that Hans Christian Anderson studied there. It's neat because it hasn't really been changed, just preserved.

Remember Ben and Jerry's? Well it's international, because we got some ice cream from one of their shops on the way home.

Saturday Beach

Awhile ago now we went to an artificially constructed beach. It wasn't very remarkable because it was about the same weather as back home (in the end we left because of rain). But they did sell fruit and ice cream there, a bit different. And we got to ride the metro further than normal. We seem to combine every day trip with getting groceries, which is good because it's hard to make a special trip for that.