The Madsen Mode of Transportation

Today was comparatively easy...I only made cookies!  - Melissa's chocolate chippers.  Stan went to get a haircut...quite expensive, but a nice haircut nevertheless.  At 2:00 we left for the Center.  This was not our day to have a car.  The weather was overcast but not raining and it was decent weather.  So we decided to walk.  The Center is about 2 1/4 miles from our apartment, and we don't exactly break any records by getting there in 45 minutes, but it is a good workout anyway.

This little walkway looks so inviting, but I was particularly intrigued by the tree dead center....it was far more magnificent than this photo can show.  I can hardly wait to see it in the Spring and Summer.

We had worked up an appetite and so Stan went out and got us a typical Danish lunch!

This is known as a salat pizza -or salad.  I thought it was great...SK not so much.

We worked on some paperwork there and then I left at 5:45 for the temple so that I could be with the YSAs on their session.  I love the Copenhagen Temple.  It is small, but inside it has some beautiful architectural features and marvelous murals on the walls (by Joseph Brickey I am told).  It is serene and inspiring.  It was completely dark as I walked there.

After the session I walked back to the Center where there were already about 15 YSAs gathered, many of whom had been to the temple to do baptisms.  Within an hour or so, there was a nice little group of 25 or so who ate treats and played games....Crud among other games.

I watched them play Crud ...they were whooping and a hollering and having a fantastic time.  I wondered if there was anywhere else in Copenhagen tonight where people their age were having as good a time with such good clean fun.

By the time everyone had gone home it was 12:30 a.m.  We packed up and walked the block and a half to the bus stop.  The sign said that the bus would come by in 11 minutes.  It was dark and cold so I suggested we just keep walking.  We walked to the intersection where we would change buses and it still hadn't come...so that was a good decision.  The bus stop for the second bus said that the next bus would be by in 24 minutes, so we set out on foot again.  We made it to our street in 30 minutes, and the bus never passed us.  So we are home now at 1:53 a.m.  With all the walking we did today, I am sure that we each have walked at least 5 miles.  I hope that makes up for all the cookies I ate!

What really surprised me was the number of people out at this time of night.  Of course we passed a number of bars that were full of people....but we passed many pedestrians  and a lot of bicyclists.