Last Stop--Copenhagen, Denmark

 Walking around Copenhagen

 We had a beautiful start to the day

 More pretty fountains

 The darkening sky

 Our Royal Copenhagen Tour the morning we arrived

 The Royal Palace

 Eating lunch on the Nyvan Canal.  Savannah was sleeping and they had no high chairs

 Me on the famous Nyvan Canal

 Baby Boy and Mommy

 The restaurant we ate in on the canal

 Savannah is up and ready for spaghetti

 Look at the canal

 The Black Diamond--new opera house with the first 5 floors underwater.

 Beautiful Copenhagen

 Classic Postcard View

 This is what I think of when I think of Denmark

 Getting ready to go on our canal tour

 An hour ride down the canal

 Our poor tour guide getting drenched

 The skies opened up.  This is the naval celebration of the 500th year of the Denmark Navy

 More sights from the tour

 What a pretty tour

 Loved the canal

 A dry moment to go outside

 Amazing church steeple with a spiral staircase on the outside

 We went under many of these bridge/tunnels.  Everyone outside had to sit down.  Very low clearance.

 More sights to behold

 This is one of my favorites.  It is flowers in the shape of Europe on the side of the building

 In our room for Rich's rainy birthday celebration.  It is a traditional Danish birthday cake

 A rainy harbour walk

 Our hotel, The Tivoli Hotel, is on this strip

 Town Hall

 Side shopping street with a great children's boutique where Savannah and I are

 Waiting for Mommy to finish shopping

 A beautiful city rich in history

 At an outside cafe

 The only way to eat ice cream is with TWO spoons

 Indulging on the last day of vacation

 The round tower

 View from the Round Tower

 Another view from the round tower

 Savannah up at the round tower.  Mommy and sleeping Seth are in H & M

 How high up is Savannah?

 More views

 Pretty girl walking around the round tower

 Such a pretty and colorful city

Love the old and new architecture mix

The morning we arrived in Copenhagen, the sun was shining and it was a beautiful day.  About three in the afternoon that all changed and it started raining and then pouring.  We started the day off the ship about 8:30 a.m. and went on the Royal Copenhagen tour where we went to the Royal Palace and two castles.  We toured each for an hour seeing the tapestries and the jewels.  Seth slept the entire time.  Then we checked into our hotel and went out exploring on the Strogoff, the busiest and longest shopping district in all of Europe.  It had a lot of commercialized stores and some unique ones too.  We walked down to old town and Nyvan Canal and the medieval district.  We had lunch on the canal at an Italian restaurant and that is where it started to rain.  The rain stopped and we decided to take a canal tour.  The tour was wonderful, except it started pouring.  We still got to see a lot of nice things and go under the bridge/tunnels which is so classic of Copenhagen.  Afterwards we had dinner at Hard Rock Cafe.  It was so crowded and the wait was very long, but Seth was sleeping, so it was ok. 

Rich's birthday was also a wash out.  We walked around the city some more and went through some of the nooks and crannies and down less crowded streets.  We did some nice boutique shopping and Rich and Savannah climbed the Round Tower.  The night had such hard rain and thunder that we celebrated his birthday by eating in the hotel restaurant.  Our only nice weather day was Friday when we went to Tivoli Gardens, which was the highlight of our visit to Denmark. 

Outstandig Oslo

 Good Morning Oslo--very early.  About 7:30 a.m.

 Can tell we will love this city

 Imagine if the weather was nice

 Downtown in the distance

 The Harbour

 On our tour

 Entering the sculpture garden in the rain with two sleeping cuties

 Fast asleep

 This was such a beautiful park and the tour guide said on a nice day there are hundreds of people having picnics, playing frisbee, on the playground, etc. It was the nicest playground and if Savannah was up and it wasn't pouring rain, we would have spent the entire stop on the playground

 Sculpture Garden

 Very interesting sculptures only found here in Norway since the artist was commissioned to only sell and display his work in Norway

 The tour guide said this is the most popular statue.  It has been stolen and recovered many times and several times it is found in the morning dressed.

 The fountains were beautiful even in the rain

 Such a beautiful square

 Rich and two sleeping children at the sculpture garden

 Overview of the park

 I waited at the bottom since the stroller with two kids couldn't get up the steps.  I won't travel with the big double stroller again even though it was necessary when they were both sleeping.

 I like this sculpture  The sculptures were all of people in all different stages of life

 Raining at the sculpture park

 A momentary reprieve from the rain

 Ski jump from the 1952 Olympics in Oslo.  It is being renovated for the 2011 International Ski Jump Championships.

 The ski jump looks scary to me

 Holmenkollen Ski Jump

 Rich loves to ski and Oslo is so active with hiking, skiing and biking.

 The construction is almost complete

 I don't know how people do this

 Savannah and Rich went up to the top.  I went in the gift shop with sleeping Seth.

 This is a statue of the person the ski jump is named after.

 City Hall.  Savannah was cold at the ski jump so she picked out a pink winter hat that says Norway

 Love the architecture

 Downtown Oslo in th rain

 Mandatory stop

 Singing at the Hard Rock Cafe

 Here comes the rain again

 Rain isn't going to stop our sightseeing

 What a beautiful square this would be

 A dry moment

 

Stopped for a snack--banana bread covered with chocolate--YUM

 Would be a gorgeous view

Excited that the rain stopped

 By the Harbour

 Happy kids and daddy in Oslo

 Daddy taking some pictures and Savannah dancing

 Our ship docked in Oslo in the rain

 Beautiful port even in the rain

 Love the architecture

 Back on board.  What a carefree photo of Savannah and her baby doll

 Silly girl getting out some energy.  She is a dancing queen

 Beautiful city

 So green and lush with all the rain

 Such a gorgeous baby

 Fun as we sail away to Denmark

 Loved walking over here

 Enjoying the freedom

Ready to walk

 Having a snack

 Windy as we sail away

 Sailing through the fjord

 Empty dck due to the rain

 How gorgeous this would have been

 The fjord was still amazing

Sailing through Norway

Day 4 in Oslo was a soaker, but we didn't let it put a damper on it.  Oslo is a beautiful city and we really enjoyed our short visit.  We did a tour of the Highlights of Oslo which went to a famous sculpture garden and the 1952 Olympic Ski Jump.  We also got a city tour.  The kids slept during the entire tour, so we could listen and get some history.  After the tour we had two hours to explore the downtown in the rain.  We ate at Hard Rock Cafe and then went through a park and walked around the harbour.  We also stopped at a great coffee shop and got espresso and the kids got yummy treats.  Then we went back on the ship to sail through the breathtaking fjords or Norway, but unfortunately it was so rainy and foggy we could not appreciate all the beauty, but you could still see the splendour.  We would definitely like to visit Norway again on a sunny day.  It is a very friendly city with lots to offer for sports enthusiasts and families alike.  The people were very warm and friendly.