Vacation - Copenhagen

After our quick trip to Canada, we had a handful of days at home and then we were off to Europe for a family vacation. As you can imagine, we were more than a bit nervous about having Dougie on a very long flight across the Atlantic not to mention our concerns about dealing with a toddler and serious jet lag. Overall, we all did exceptionally well with the trip. We had a few early flights that taxed all of us but we pulled through and made it to Copenhagen without any major international incidents.

Our first day there we spent mostly in recovery mode. It was raining most of the day and we were all very tired so we napped and didn't wander too far from the hotel. Fortunately, we were very close to a lot of the action of the city so even with just a short walk we could experience city life.

Day two we decided to get out and do some real site seeing. We took a boat tour in the morning. It was a great way to see the city and Dougie enjoyed the experience of being on the boat enough that he was happy to sit through the tour.



After some lunch and a short nap, we headed to Tivoli. It's a small amusement park right in the center of Copenhagen. I think that may have been the highlight of Dougie's entire trip. There was a large children's area that had an inflated mattress like thing that the kids could bounce on.





There were also slides and other more standard play things.



It was a challenge to get Dougie away from that area but eventually, we did. We decided to try him on some of the rides. Daddy took him on the first one.

It looks like he's screaming there but he's actually saying "Hi Mama."

I drove with him in some little cars and then we moved onto the carousel.



Dougie loved the carousel so much, we did it again. This time, he wanted to ride the giraffe.

It really was huge. Scott kept a hand on him the entire time though.




It has been a long day by the time we finished on the rides so we had some dinner in the park. Scott decided to get some ice cream but Dougie felt that he should share.







We decided to finish the day by burning off a bit of energy back on the bounce thing.



There were a lot less kids the second time so Dougie was able to run without worrying about hitting someone else.



It was a fabulous day. The next day we headed for the cruise ship. More about that soon.