Mommie and Auntie's European Adventures Part 3

Beautiful Copenhagen......

So at long last we arrived in Copenhagen - finally we would be able to see where Kelly has been calling "home" for the last several months.  Since we were so tired from early morning flights we took it easy on our first day. Kelly gave us a tour of City Center, we visited DIS (Danish Institute for Study Abroad), went to an early dinner and then called it a day.  On the second day we toured the harbor area, visited Kelly's Kollegium, a grocery store and made her dinner while she did her laundry.  Rachel-Mom's wondering when YOU are going to start doing YOUR own laundry??

The first two pictures below are  from the harbor area.    We really enjoyed Kelly being the tour guide and explaining some of the Danish history to us. 

Our next adventure included renting a car..... thanks to Aunt Jill's bravery and Kelly's navigating we safely made it to Helsingor, which is about an hour north of Copenhagen.  We visited Kronborg Castle, which is also known as Hamlet's Castle.  We thoroughly enjoyed our tour and independence, but all the while we were there we kept thinking about how much we would have loved sharing this day with Jake (and everyone else).  So the picture below of the cannons is for you, Jake.  Mom has many more pictures to share with you.  
After safely returning to Copenhagen, we met Kelly's friend Erin and her mother, Susan for dinner.  Kelly and Erin really enjoyed a restaurant called RizRaz several weeks ago and decided to share it with all of us.  We had a really wonderful time and it was really special and very comforting to meet Kelly's friends.

Good Bye

So........this morning we had to say Good Bye to Kelly.  She is headed off on a trek to the Czech Republic.  She walked us to the Metro Station and gave us our route to the next step of our adventure.    It appeared as though she was very worried about Mommie and Auntie heading off on our own.    She has truly been our guide and we have thoroughly enjoyed letting her lead us!  Kelly, how incredibly proud we are of you and honored that you wanted to share this with us.  We love you!

We realize what an incredibly special time this has been and we truly appreciate how fortunate we are to have husbands, children,  family and friends support this big adventure.  Jeff, Joe, Matthew, Rachel, Jake, Gramis and Paul we love you all very much.  Thank you for supporting this adventure!

Next Stop.....Sweden to visit the Oden

We landed in Sweden this morning and tomorrow we head out to visit the ship that Jeff will call home on his big adventure.  Our mission -- pictures and descriptions!