Denmark Day 8

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Day 8: I forgot to mention this yesterday, but all the Christmas decorations on the streets and lamp posts are gone. Christmas is over in Denmark, unlike in America where it keeps going until late January. hehe Today we walked to Rosenslot, the castle where they keep the Danish treasury and the crown jewels. We only got to see 3 rooms of the main castle, even though the guidebook said all 24 rooms on 3 floors should be open to the public. Must be closed for the winter or something. There were paintings on the walls, not hung on the walls, but actually painted onto the wood walls and ceilings. Lots of looking up, but nowhere near as impressive as Versailles. The treasury room was neat, lots of swords and necklaces and stuff like that. The crown jewels were almost as exquisites as England's, but the security was much less rigid. You can actually go up right next to the case and look down at the crown, in England you can't get that close. The castle is billed as a "fairy tale castle" with a moat and huge courtyard/garden. After Rosenslot Dad, Em, and Mom decided to go see the Danish Geology museum. I wasn't in the mood to look at rocks and was a little under the weather, so I walked home early all by myself and didn't get lost! For those of you unaware, my sense of direction is awful and I have gotten lost on circular walkways before. I was impressed I made it back in one piece. Currently watching a bootlegged copy of The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. We couldn't turn the subtitles off, so we put them in English...wow they are so awful. Definately a pirated film, but it should make it even more awesome. "That my house how does" and "I look a lot of coming over" are just some examples of the awful subtitles. I'm in stitches..