We arrived in Copenhagen mid morning. After getting breakfast at the station and changing money, we left most of our luggage in a locker for the next few days, keeping only a change of clothes and things to take with us to Stockholm the next day.

We then crossed the street and spent the day at Tivoli, which is sort of a fairground/park in the center of town. It took us a bit of time to get acclimated, but it turned out to be a great day, especially for the girls. We thought they wuld be too small to ride most of the rides, but then we figured out that they could ride them with us, so Phyllis and I also bought tickets and spent the day riding with them. The park was set up like Disneyland used to be, where you could buy tickets as you rode or else get a multi pass. And they weren’t as uptight about the rides as they usually are in the US. For example, there was a roller coaster we rode in which one operator was busy munching on a tuna sandwich, and the other operator actually rode the ride. Not in the cars, though. Instead, he sat in kind of an office chair that had been bolted into place between the cars, and he gripped a giant handbrake that appeared to be the only brake on the cars. During the actual ride, he stook up, and for some reason looked to me like a person straddling a giant fish that was riding up and down the waves.  If he fell, he would almost surely have been killed, but he seemed relaxed about it.

Other rides the girls liked were a kind of carasel made out to look like ships in the ocean that looked like it would be tame but then turned out to run crazy fast, bumper cars just like they used to make when I was a kid, and a little roller coaster.  They also really liked a fun house that had giant slides, moving step ladders, and wooden tubes that you could climb in that turned. They don’t make places like that in the US because they would be too dangerous, but it was very fun.  Food continued to be a problem, but we found hot dogs and a pancake place for Amber.

We stayed at the park all day, and then returned to the station. We tried briefly to find dinner outside the station but could find nothing and so ate again in the station before catching a train to Lund, where we walked around a bit in the drizzle in the night, stopping at a convenience store, and then caught the night train from there to Stockholm.  It was the same basic set up as the first night car we took, but perhaps was a bit nicer. We again shared our room with someone, but he seemed to speak no English so he didn’t speak much.