Vacation in Malmo/Copenhagen

Sorry for not posting for so long.  This week was half-term for Adam and Meyer, and Lisa had been invited to give a talk in Copenhagen (actually, Roskilde, outside of Copenhagen), so we turned it into a family trip.  But, more than a family trip, we turned it into a multi-family reunion.  My good friend from New Haven, Josh Murray, has been living in Malmo, Sweden, for over twenty years, and I've never visited him there.  It was easy to get another good friend from high school, Claude, to bring his family from where they're currently living (in Belgrade) so we could all visit each other together.   Claude has two daughters close in age to Josh's daughters, and they love each other.  We three families had vacationed together in Sicily two summers ago, and had a really nice time, so we repeated the experience.  Then, Josh convinced another friend from New Haven, Jon Walker, to come visit from London (where he's living with his family for the fall/winter), so all four New Haven friends could be together.  Josh, Claude and Jon were three-fifths of a musical group called "The Leftovers" in high school, and Josh signed them up to play a few songs at a singer-songwriter cafe in Copenhagen, so they had their first reunion show in 30ish years.  All the families came to the show, and it was really exciting to be out hearing music at night in Copenhagen.  Jon has been writing music and put out two albums in the last couple of years, so they played two of his songs, one by Claude, and one old Leftovers song that Claude and Jon had co-written.  

Here's a link to the video of the whole show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKoPmZ58HbI

 

The rest of the trip was also really fun, although more conventional.  We went to the Copenhagen zoo, an art museum, a Danish history museum, a design museum, a canal tour, and, of course, Tivoli Gardens, the famous urban amusement park in the middle of Copenhagen (we actually went several times).  I would post pictures, but the ones I took all look like this (!):