Tivoli Gardens and 20 degrees!

Tivoli Gardens is an amusement park and pleasure garden in the heart of Copenhagen.  However, we did not find much pleasure in the 20 degree temperature.

Tivoli opened in 1843.  It is said that Hans Christen Andersen was one of it's first visitors.  Walt Disney made a visit to Tivoli in 1953, and there are many similarities that we saw on our visit with the two parks.  

And what is Easter without a daffodil covered roof.  

 Rows and rows of daffodils and tulips were a welcome change to our winter.

The Peacock theatre features pantomine productions every hour or so.  This was a version of the Ugly Duckling.

But the very best part was finding a Pink Vespa.  I won't retell our Vespa story here since you have heard it a million times.  Suffice it to say it was a trip down memory lane for us.

Church History Presentation...

Paul and I worked on a Powerpoint presentation to be shown in the foyer prior to the Saturday and Sunday Sessions of Stake Conference 7, 8 April 2018.  The response was good.  We will do all that we can to bring more awareness to the mission of the church history department in Denmark.  

We posted these two historical timelines.  The red wooden box will be opened during the Stake RS Birthday party on April 21st.  It has been sitting in the RPC since 1982.  

Bent Raymond on the left looking at the camera and Peter Jensen-Bech are the two Danish men that we work with.  They are both awesome.  

On the left is our Stake RS President.  In the center is our mission president with his lovely wife, The O'Bryants.  They go home in June and we will miss them.  

The Nabby Tree

We were walking on the grounds of the castle in Slotsgarten.  A beautiful summer palace of Frederick the VII.  In the distance we could see something sparkling on a tree in the distance.  We thought of many things it could be, but would have never guessed that it was a tree filled with binkies!

We came across the Mommies of these two darling boys and they explained to us that the children in Denmark use their binkies until they are around three years old.  They then have a little ceremony where the binkie is given to the "Nabby" tree signifying...well I don't know...something about growing up I guess.