Oh for Perfect Recall

What is it that will stay in the memory of a child?....or an adult, for that matter.

While Erin and Ethan have been here, I have tried to check the children's pulses on what they like about this place.  For the most part, when I ask that question, I get short responses - and non-committal at that.  They are unsure what exactly to say about this place.  But I know that some decades from now, they will remember something about Denmark.....what?

Today was a marvelous day for them.  Their dad took them up to the top of Vor Frelsier's Kirke, or Church of Our Savior.  The stairway is on the outside and quite spectacular.  It is a spiral staircase, and they had a good sense of safety.  They loved it.  The 360 degree view of Copenhagen is remarkable.

Erin and Ethan did some shopping at Inco...a Costco Wannabe which they enjoyed.  The kids also enjoyed a playground....which was definitely a cut above.  Finally, they visited Bakken....the oldest continuous amusement park in Europe.  It reminds me of Lagoon, 50 years ago, except that it is much larger, and has a LOT of restaurants.  They went on one ride and played several games, coming home loaded up with small stuffed animals.

If those places aren't enough to make great memories, there were the food experiences.  They had Schwarma for lunch (no, that isn't exactly Danish, but the owners SPEAK Danish....doesn't that count for something?), Is Maigeriet for premier ice cream, to Frida's for the quintessential dessert known as roed groed med floede (red pudding with cream) and Drommecake (also a classic dessert here) in the evening.  And they sampled some churros somewhere in there.

Of course, I love to imagine what they are seeing, hearing, smelling, thinking about this place.  Only time will tell.  After nearly 2 years, and completely against my will, I am looking at everything around me with delight, but also with some familiarity.  This is all completely new to them.

I hope as they recall being in Denmark, they will remember a small country full of kind people who speak their language as fluently as they speak their own Danish, a beautiful city full of quaint and magnificent old buildings, bicycles everywhere, history going back a thousand years and more, castles of pomp and glory, stately old churches that inspire reverence and the Baltic Sea within arm's reach from so much of the country.

I hope that I will be able to recall all that and so much more.