Black verses White

Every year in October, Denmark has a week-long Fall vacation.  The community has all kinds of activities going during that time.  We didn't really know that much about it until it was too late to go and participate, but we did make it to a couple of things.  On one day, we went into Copenhagen with our friends Alaina and Olivia.  We just played at a couple of museums kids areas.  The kids loved it, but it was so crowded!  The only picture I took of that outing was at the Milk City. 
 They make these huge milk cartons out of milk cases, then they sell milk products and give out free samples.  We tried a couple of smoothies and Myra got this weird milk drink that was just plain milk with these round, juice filled balls in it.  You bite into them and they burst.  I thought it was a little gross, but the kids all loved them.

The other thing we did that week was go to a Medieval Festival.  It was such a beautiful day.  The sun was out and we didn't even need our coats.  Just jackets.  That was nice since we've been wearing out winter coats again since the end of September.  The festival was held in the National Armory museum.  We walked through that for a while.  Pretty lame.  Just a lot of old cannons. I guess half of the exhibit is closed for renovation.  There was a small medieval market we walked through.  Not much to look at.  Although, we enjoyed watching these kids doing tumbling tricks.  For the next couple of days, our kids were practicing their balancing skills as well.
The tournament would have been more fun to watch if we understood more of what was being said, but we were able to pick out enough to figure it out.  We got to cheer for which knight we wanted, black vs. white.  It was pretty fun to watch.  My favorite was the actual jousting.  The horses were amazing, so well trained.  We had a fun time watching.

After that, we headed over to Christianshavn, another part of Copenhagen that we had never been to before.  As part of our entry fee into the tournament, we could also go and view the National Ship Museum.  We only had about 40 minutes, so we pretty much flew threw it.  It was actually pretty neat, complete with an entire floor done up like the inside of a submarine.  And it was all hands on.  The kids loved checking out the little rooms and flipping all the switches. And in the basement was a fun kids play area with a bunch of model boats they could play in.