This is my mom sitting on the floor of Anderson's Fairyland, listening to the story of Thumb Girl.
This was in front of the Ameilienburg, which is the royal palace. Denmark is a constitutional monarchy. The monarch of the Kingdom of Denmark is Queen Margrethe II. Her eldest son, i.e the Crown Prince married a non-royal lady years ago. She is from Tasmania, Australia, which is probably the farest place away from Denmark on the earth . They met in a pub when he went to Sydney to watch the Olympic Games. Alas, what can you say, that is fate. Their marriage is the modern fairy tale.
This is the Rosenburg, the catsle where the royal family reside in winter.
I call it the American junk food building: McDonald, Burger King, KFC. But someone is delighted at this I am sure.
I didn't know what Denmark is rich in amber until I got there. They call amber "gold of the ocean" since it is mostly collected by the sea. I in this picture was standing outside the Copenhagen Amber Museum. In the exhibition held there, we see ancient insects trapped in amber, and I started imagining that if there was a mosquito which just had a big bite of a dinosaur and was trapped by an amber right after, then perhaps we can extract from the mosquito the blood of a dinosaur, and then obtain its DNA... why not?
I find this cart/bike very clever!
Here is the most famous spot of Copenhagen -- almost its landmark -- the little mermaid. To be honest, it is not a really splendid sculpture, but it fit into the context and environment well. Well, The Little Mermaid, I remember I was so sad after reading or being read this story. That was perhaps my first enlightenment that love can be tragic.
My mom and I in front of a nice and powerful fountain.
Nyhaven is a very vibrant place. A lot of fashionable restaurant cluster along the street. As you can probably recognize, Nyhaven can be directly translated into New Haven, and it reveals that there is a port nearby. I wonder if the New Haven in America was named after this place by early Danish explorers.
We took a canal bus, aka boat, at Nyhaven to tour around the city.
Copenhagen is very chilly. The outdoor thermograph on the wall of a building says that the temperature is 15*C.
The weather in Copenhagen is as changeable as that in London. Minutes ago we were wearing sunglasses, and then when a cloud came it poured! This is my mom getting shielded in an Afghan Market. I was reading The Kite Runner on the trip, and I couldn't help wondering what a life did the owner of the store had? What drove him come to such a faraway land? Does he/she still have friends/family in Afghanistan? Are they still alive?...
Copenhagen is also a city full of canals. I say "also", because there are quite a number of cities with such traits in Europe. The most famous one among them are Venice, but Copenhagen feels more like Amsterdam, with the boat houses in water and buildings in red bricks by the canals.
This is Copenhagen Stock Exchange. It has a history of over 400 years. I like the pinnacle of the tower
A second-hand market
Copenhagen has many towers with intriguing pinnacles.
I gave the bird its credit for choosing a nice
Outside the Royal Library
A yoga practitioner in the garden of the royal library
I run into some good performance in the street of Copenhagen the afternoon we reached there. This is a string walker from San Fransisco. I took 2 videos clips of his performance, and I will upload them when the internet is not so shaky.
A band from Peru. Their music is soul touching.
A rock band performing in the City Hall Square for blood donation. 
Outside Trivoli Park there is a "Build a Bear" workshop. I thought it is something special about Trivoli Park, therefore it would be meaningful to build one there as a Copenhagen souvenir. Only later on did I realize that it is a international chain store. Never mind, it is the experience that mattered. It is rather I pressed some decorative buttons rather than I built a bear. On the buttons there are words like "love", "courage", "knowledge".. therefore pressing them means that these qualities are built into the bear when it is being stuffed with the machine. And then I need to put a little clothing heart into its body before it is sowed up, but there are a series of actions attached to the "put": I am instructed by the lady to rub my hands with the heart inside to make it warm, to give the heart a kiss, to tell the bear in its ear a secret that only we two will share, and hold the bear and run around in the store to make it energetic. I did all these with a number of kids, whose ages are at most half of mine. After quite some exercise, the lady said solemnly to me: "Now you must promise me one thing." I was struck by the sudden seriousness in her tone, and then I heard she saying " You will take good care of the bear." In the end, I need to fill in a birth certificate for it. I named my polar bear Dan, for the sake of Denmark.
Woody and Buzz Lightyear!
You see the building behind the corridor? That is where the Pope lives. The window at the upper-left corner is in his bedroom, and the window by it leads to his study.
The obelisk was originally from Egypt. Think of how much it has witnessed: the rise and fall the pharaohs, and slaughter of the Christians in Rome Empire, and election and death of the Popes, and the visiting of me!
About the size of the Saint Peter's, I like the description from a tourist guide book "To say it's vast is like saying God is smart." This is the famous canopy with revolving columns by Bernini. It is actually of the height of 7 floors, but one hardly feels so in front of it. In front of such magnificence, a not so graceful question came into my mind: "It cost hugely. How did the curia have so much money?" Bank financing, maybe a portion of it, but more importantly as I believe, the money was from the taxes charged for various reasons. Hmm...
The castle of Saint Angels.
