Saturday, May 26, 2012

Copenhagen Carnival

Every year, they have a big Carnival in Copenhagen.  It's kind of a small scale version of the big ones they have in Rio and other areas.  Whereas most Carnival's have religious significance, the one in Denmark has become a festival for World Music.  We headed towards the Strøget (pedestrian streets), where they were having the "parade".
Look how Crowded!
I think the kids were a little disappointed because their idea of a parade is much different than the parade we saw.
Funny that the "Brazilian" dancers were wearing the most clothing out of most of the dancers we saw.

He was still fun though.  Despite the many scantily clad women, there was just such a vibrant feeling around town.  The music was loud and fun.
Noah wasn't too thrilled about the noise and some of the costumes.  One dancer bent down to talk to him and he turned his head away and wouldn't even look at her.
And representative of many different places and cultures.  We didn't stay for too long.  The parade is kind of an all day event, and we didn't want to stay in the crowd of people for that long.  So after we'd seen enough, we decided to head over to the park where the celebrations were culminating.  Chad didn't think it looked like too long of a walk to the park, but it ended up being a very long walk.
Noah goofing around during lunch time.
Myra in front of the Nikolaj Kirke, turned art museum.
Lexi handing out with all the sunbather's at Kongens Have near Rosenborg Castle.

Rosenborg Castle

Taking a rest.
  I think we put in over 4 miles of walking.  Pretty good for the little ones.  The park ended up not being really worth it.

 We had to pay to get in and it ended up just being kind of a fair type thing.  With games to play, food to buy and not much else, unless you were interested in buying cigarettes and drinking beer.  The kids were of course disappointed we wouldn't let them play on the bounce house, but the prices were exorbitant.  But, they were happy again when we bought ice cream, which was barely less exorbitant.  We were glad we went, to experience something new, but we'd skip the park atmosphere in the future.  We also enjoy these outing into the city, there is just so much to see.  It's a lot of fun.  For the day, we put in over 4 miles of walking and 3 miles of biking, so it was nice to get home and rest.  And now we can say we've been to "Carnival!"

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