Ninety Two Persons Go to Copenhagen - Day 1

It's time for another class trip!  Students have been working up to this first overnight trip with closer destinations not requiring overnight lodging and now they're/we're ready for more.  Early Tuesday morning, two coach buses arrive on campus to pick everybody up. All are given a printout of the schedule.  Having it in Swedish makes it extra special fun.
You can see I nearly wore my schedule out!

The first stop was in Helsingborg to board the ferry to Denmark.

Hello Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik!

After a picnic lunch in a roadside park, we headed to our first museum, Louisiana Konstmuseum - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Of special interest was the Moon exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
I especially liked the Gleaming Lights of the Souls by Yayoi Kusama which is only able to have four visitors view the art at one time. In a small room that has mirrors on the ceiling and walls with a reflecting pool on the floor, you stand on a platform and view flickering light orbs that change colors.


The museum also offers a wonderful outside sculpture garden.
Wes hamming it up by Henry Moore's Reclining Figure.

Alexander Calder's Little Janey-Waney
 Then it's back to the bus for all, we are heading in to the city of Copenhagen. The group can chose optional site visits while we wait for our hostel to be open at 5:00.  Wes and I chose to go to an underground cistern art installation.


Never have seen anything like this before!  Flames that erupted when you approached, metal discs suspending from the ceiling that rotated and and gave ever-changing reflections of the cistern arches, and chimes that were sounded when a ball suspended from a tract struck a metal bowl.
It was truly other-worldly.

Now it's 5:00 and hostel check-in time...the first time we'd ever stayed in a hostel!
It was well-run, clean, and surprisingly quiet except for our neighbors coming in at 3:00 AM.
(Certainly couldn't have been one of our 92, right?)  We didn't settle in though because we had BIG PLANS for the evening ourselves: a visit to nearby 
T I V I O L I   G A R D E N S.
This second-oldest amusement park in the world opened in August 1843, and now is celebrating its

175th birthday/anniversary!
So you know we had to check it out to see if the magic is for real.  It is!









Though we rode no rides, we did attend an outdoor concert, saw daylight, dusk and dark unfold, ate 
dinner outside and saw the magical lights everywhere.  Even the rides were artistically painted and placed in settings to enhance the show.




Of all the we saw and experienced in this full day,  
Tivoli Gardens is the one I'll never forget!
 

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