Day 2 - Copenhagen

The girls woke up at 4am this morning and were bouncing off the walls. We managed to sort of snooze until 5am and then we got up and fed the girls some cereal that we had bought the night before. At 6am Dave went on the hunt for coffee. No luck! Nothing opens until 10am on a Sunday. He did find a Grocery store for some fruit. We made it another hour or so and I'm sure everyone in proximity to our room hated us by this point. Children really have no understanding of voice volume control. I think we're going to have to give up or we will likely go insane getting after them to be quiet.
We went on the hunt for a park and found a beautiful one. This city really has the most impressive parks. They are all within these iron gates and fences. There were so many people out running at this early hour. Tons of couples out with their jogging strollers. There is definitely a baby boom here. So many strollers, and everyone uses the large old fashioned pram style strollers. They also have the most fantastic bikes with built in kids carts/seats. They have got this stuff figured out. I figure the prams are used here as the cobblestone make it hard to push a stroller with smaller wheels. Ours is working out fine. Really glad we didn't bring the umbrella strollers though.

We found coffee and Danishes and strolled through the park. There was a very strange children's playground which didn't hold their attention, and then as we looped around the park, we came across the most unusual thing...it was a soother tree! It had thousands of soothers suspended from it's branches along with notes and pictures and ribbons. It was fascinating. Clearly the place to bring your child's soothers when you were giving them up. It made complete sense to Cadence as we had mailed her soothers away when she gave hers up...so the soosie fairy in our house now had a home. We asked Avery if she wanted to leave one of her soothers at the tree. She said yes, so we tied one up on a ribbon. Too bad we didn't have a pen and paper to leave a note, but she's left her legacy here nonetheless! Once I figure out a way to put photos up, I will post some. It was quite magical looking...really!





We then started to walk towards the city centre. We took a lovely stroll down the pedestrian only road and then stopped at Nyhavn for lunch. Brunch is served here until 11am so we had to wait around a little which was fine as it started to pour with rain again. All the restaurants are equipped with nice fleece blankets at their outdoor seating so we snuggled in and ordered some lunch.

Once we'd eaten and the rain had subsided, both girls climbed into the stroller and we headed back for a nap at the hotel. Everyone was tired having bee up since 4 am. Not even halfway and both of them were sleeping. Poor Avery's head was bobbing all over and eventually she fell fast asleep head first on the front of the stroller. Then came the rain. I was glad that I had brought the rain coats at the last second. It had been a sunny morning, but we are learning fast that the weather is very unpredictable. Having nothing but my raincoat to cover the stroller, Dave and I hustled back to the hotel as quickly as we could. The girls easily slipped back to sleep once we got back to the hotel.

We had a good sleep and later in the afternoon we received a call from the front desk staff. Janet Jackson was playing a concert at our hotel and they were extending tickets to the guests...did we want to go? We said yes, seemed like something fun to do.

We got some dinner and got dressed and headed down around 8pm for the concert. We bought some ear plugs for the girls and ventured in. Unfortunately we were in the general seating area which meant no seats. The girls are still quite jet lagged so we were having to carry them a lot. We got a few songs in and I had a dance with my girls before Avery became adamant that she wanted to go outside. So that was the end of that. We attempted a trip for ice cream but Cadence had had it too. So back upstairs for games and tv before trying to get them to bed.