Day 2: Saturday, 11/20
We slept in and after having some french toast, headed out to explore Copenhagen and Tivoli. Nelly's located right in the heart of the city so it was a short walk to nearby Tivoli. This is a famous amusement park and garden, which opened on August 15, 1843. It is the second oldest amusement park in the world, and this time of the year was all decked out for Christmas! Although I'm used to start the festivities a little later on in the year - preferably after Thanksgiving, it was nice to get into the spirit a little earlier this year. The twinkling lights compensating for the early nightfall (around 4 pm) didn't hurt either.
We got an all ride pass and proceeded to go on several of the park's rides. Quite conveniently there was barely a wait for any of them. We went on Rutsjebanen ('Mountain Track') the wooden roller coaster, Dæmonen ('The Demon') that has an infinity loop, the tower that drops you, the tower with flying swings at the top where we got the best views of the city, and my all time favorite - the bumper cars.
We later saw some ice sculptures and walked through the market type aisles that sold Christmas related goods. We were inspired by seeing the food stands to make our own zeppole's - and that night, that we did! Some flour, yeast, frying oil, and powdered sugar later... we had our own homemade creations made from scratch!
Tivoli!
Ice sculptures
2 comments:
Hey look at you doing your research. I have learned things about my local amusement park. Excellent!
Haha yeah, I try. Thank you google and wikipedia.
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