As many of you can probably already guess, life has been non-stop go go go for both of us and we’ve finally found some time to sit down and write this long over due update. To begin let me go back a little ways to Thanksgiving, Megan’s Birthday, and Mini-Honeymoon trip #1 (also known as Copenhagen)…
We decided to take our first European trip to Copenhagen, Denmark during Thanksgiving weekend. It was our Mini-Honeymoon #1, Thanksgiving, and Megan’s Birthday all rolled into one! The trip started out in true Griswald Family (The Vacation Movies) style:
· 30 minute delayed flight from Stavanger
· Running through Oslo airport (layover was originally only 50 minutes, that is if the plane was on time)
· Missing the last Copenhagen connection for the night and being rescheduled for the 6 am flight the next day, thus making an unexpected free night stay in the hotel by the airport
· Celebrating Megan’s birthday a little early with some duty-free wine and our free 500 NOK food/beverage vouchers
· Sleeping through the wake-up call and all alarms and waking up at 6am by sure luck
· Missed flight #2, miraculously got rescheduled for the 7 am flight free of charge, and finally made it to Copenhagen
Once we got there things got much better. We were able to check into our room right when we got there so we didn’t have to haul our stuff around for the day. That first day we did a bunch of shopping, as we didn’t feel like doing all the sites after our flight fiasco. The second day of our trip was spent viewing the sites. I feel like we saw just about all of them without having to take a bus, train, taxi, etc. That night we went to Tivoli Square for the Christmas market, which turned out to be a blast! With this year being our first away form families we had very little, if any, Christmas decorations, so we bought numerous ones during our trips at the various Christmas markets. On the third and final day we relaxed, enjoyed more of the good food and pretty much bought all of our Christmas presents to each other. Luckily on the way back we were able to make our flight on time, and enjoy a Starbucks coffee.
