Jægersborg DyreHave

There is this fantastic park North of Copenhagen that we have just discovered.  Dyrehave, which translates to Deer Park, was created in the 1600's as the Royal Hunting Grounds.  You can read more about it here. It's home to over 2100 deer that roam freely around the park.  I'd been hearing about the park for a while, but it took us a long time to finally decide to go.  I think it may be one of my new favorite places and I hope we can go back really soon.  We went with our friend Alaina and her little daughter Olivia.  We ended up getting rained on, of course, even though the weather said no rain.  You'd think by now we would have learned to always plan for rain.  Anyway, we walked around the park, saw a ton of deer and even some old Burial Barrow's.  We walked into the center of the park and were able to see the Royal Hunting Lodge.  Unfortunately, it was closed for renovation.  We also found out that the World's oldest still running amusement park, Bakken, is found in the park.  So, we'll have to go back to that next summer.  The park was really beautiful and it was awesome seeing all of the deer. 

 

You can pay to have a horsedrawn carriage ride through the park.

When the kids saw these fallen trees, they immediately yelled out, Look a playground.  Noah looks like he's having so much fun with Olivia.

Chad took mostly Mushroom pictures on this outing.

This horse kept scratching it's behind on the fence by us.  It was so funny.

Barrow Entrance

Royal Hunting Lodge

We saw probably 7-8 of these White deer.  Very beautiful!