All's Well That Ends Well

Our normal P-day was a sight-seeing day.  We left Copenhagen in the morning, stopped by Peter Madsen's hometown (He was born over 150 years ago and was the first in SK's family to emigrate to America.) and then continued on to Odense.

We stopped at the little church where SK thinks Peter Madsen was christened.

Odense was the city where Hans Christian Andersen grew up, and the place that he is most closely associated with, besides all of Denmark.

We stopped first at Sankt Hans Kirke where we sat for awhile in awe gazing at the magnificent Carl Bloch altarpiece.

Ethan and SK were intrigued with the beautifully carved pulpit.

We had a quick sandwich from a Danish Bakery....note to self:  when buying a sandwich in Denmark, it is ALWAYS best to get it from a bakery.

We made a trip to the Hans Christian Andersen Museum, gift shop (oh joy!) and childhood home.

We left Odense, and within 15 minutes had a blow-out tire on the freeway.  It was scary!!!!  SK immediately pulled over as close to the guard rail as he could get, but it was perilously close to the lane of speeding trucks and cars.  Each time a truck passed, that little car rattled like a plane in turbulence!  The traffic was so heavy that SK didn't dare open his door to get out, and there was no way at all that he could change the rear driver's side tire with all of the traffic hurtling by.

We climbed over the guard rail and sat on a hillside.  Erin used the time to write postcards!

Much as I love it, this would not have been fun in the rain.

He called and within 45 minutes a tow truck came, scooped the car off the road and up onto the bed of the truck, and carried us all back into an area of Odense we hadn't seen....mostly industrial.  While we were riding along in the back seat of the tow truck, SK used his Danish to explain to the young driver who we are.  He hadn't ever heard of Mormons.

We waited for an hour or so while the tire company located the right tire and put it on, and returned to Copenhagen over a great bridge.

We finished out the day at a cozy little Danish restaurant a couple of blocks from our apartment where we had a very Danish dinner....including old-fashioned apple cake with whipped cream.

See!  It all turned out just great.