As you all know, last week was my third and final week break here in Copenhagen. Besides being incredibly sad that I didn't have any more spring breaks (3 is a ridiculous amount anyway, welcome to Europe!) I was also incredibly happy because my parents were coming to visit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HERE THEY ARE!
Here is half of my visiting family: Linda in the white and Max in the blue. They took us to Bakken, the worlds oldest operating amusement park, where there is an insanely old wooden roller coaster (of course Dad and I rode it. whee!), the game booths promise prizes of giant bars of chocolate, and the local danes come in mass amounts on sunny days to drink beer and eat ice cream.
After my parents landed in the Cope we explored the city, went to Bakken, then traveled to Norway to play with the Norwegians. Our first stop was Oslo (the industrial growth capitol of Scandinavia), then we trained/boated/bussed/trained again across the country to Bergen! The coastal city of Bergen was hands down our favorite city (sorry Oslo, you were kinda scary).
Here we are in the heart of Fjord-country in between Oslo and Bergen on the Norway in a Nutshell trip. (Photo cred: Dad)
After a few days in Norway we made it back to Denmark and proceeded to work my way through the list of things I had for my parents to do. (We actually ended up throwing out the list fairly early on and just ran around the city as we pleased.) This resulted in us stopping at a Danish hot-dog stand. YUM!
Some other things that happened:
1. Prepare yourselves for my mom's upcoming photography book: Babies: Scandinavia edition. Coming soon to stores near you! She didn't send me any of the photo's she took but believe me, she has A TON of Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian baby photos in that camera of hers and with good reason: Scandinavian babies are the cutest babies in the world!
2. We made some great new friends on this trip (thanks to my parent's outgoing ways), and I have to say that last week was memorable not only for the memories my parents and I made traveling together but because of the people we met. So a thank you should go out to Claire and Benoit, a couple from France whom we met in Norway; and to K.I.M (it stands for K. something I. something Maximus I think) and David from our Copenhagen hotel who were just fabulous and wonderful and so much fun. Its not easy to make it on my mom's Christmas list, but dammit you guys did it (and in less than a week no less).
3. Either Justin Bieber was following us around during our travels or my parents are actually secret Bieber groupies because we seemed to have stumbled upon and followed EXACTLY the Scandinavian leg of his european tour. OOPS haha. Never have I ever seen so many screaming pre-teen girls with "I <3 Justin Bieber" sweatshirts in my life.
To sum up our trip for now, the fjords were beautiful, we had so much fun (even climbing up a Bergen-ese mountain in the rain, with an inside out umbrella, and trying to find our hotel), and it was such a privilege to show them around Copenhagen. As an endnote to this post I would just like to say that going into this trip I was thinking about how much I would be showing and teaching them about the place I call my temporary home. Instead our trip together turned into them teaching me a few lessons. Traveling with my parents made me realize how lucky I am to have those two fantastic people as my mom and dad, and I can't wait to learn even more from you two in the years to come.
Love you all!
Becca
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