Weekend of January 28-30

On Friday Courtney and I picked Colton up at school, it was "super hero day" and they had a bake sale. We got waffles with whipped cream and chocolate, among other things and headed for the sea. The picture on the left is from this day it was COLD but beautiful. You can walk to this from our house we took the bus this day. The ocean was frozen for a long way then you could see a line and movement where it wasn't frozen any more. It looked like surf with sand except it was all ice!!

On Saturday (the middle picture) we went to Copenhagen. We drove over the Orsund bridge it was a $56 toll one way then had a very hard time parking. We will take the train next time. Learning as we go. After we got there the town was AMAZING!! We started at City Hall Square (Radhuspladsen) saw the Hans Christian Anderson Statue and Tivoli Gardens (closed until warmer weather). We wandered around City Hall, absolutely amazing inside. Then we headed to the Stroget a pedestrian street with shops on both sides. We took a side steet to Papa's where we had pizza for lunch. Then back to the Stroget. The highlight for Colton was the Lego store where he got to spend his Christmas money. We stopped on another square and ate a Danish and hot chocolate at Norden's. Then headed to Nyhvn (New Haven) and around to the Opera House and Christianborg Palace. We didn't get to go in or see much of this because it got too late. We will be back!! We ate at Hard Rock Cafe for dinner and headed home. It was only about 45 min. from our house. I will put all the pics on Facebook.

On sunday (pic on right) Colton, Mike and I walked to Sibbarp Park, back to the Baltic Sea. The weather was warmer and the ocean was much more thawed out. Still amazing!!

Catching up to move forward.

OK life is finally slowing down and I will do a "quick" catch up and then try to do weekly posts. Our first weekend trip was to Vaxjo (Tek-Kwah) and Kosta they are in SouthEast Sweden about 3 hours away and we went by car. Got there Saturday 1/22 and went to the House of Emigrants museum , The Swedish glass museum, a cathedral (a little to new agey for me and went to Vaxjo Town Park where we walked around a frozen lake. (Colton's favorite part!!)

The next morning we got up and drove to Kosta. This region of Sweden is known as the "kingdom of crystal" there are many glass shops in this area. Kosta has one of the largest and most well known. Kosta Boda which is the oldest of the "glasbruks". We started at the new art hotel, which was beautiful, Colton played the piano and we "toured" on our own. This we headed to the glassblowing "hot shop". This was our favorite part!! We saw them actually make it. We then did some shopping and headed back home. The Picture on the left is Colton in the exhibit hall in the hot shop and the one on the right is Mike at the frozen lake. I am going to post all of the pics on facebook and the narrative on here.