May 16-Flew to Copenhagen today. Rain all over. It finally quit in the evening so we went out for dinner and then to “Mojo” a blues bar. The band was good and we stayed up late again.

May 17-Cindy practically walked Norm to death today. We walked to the Thorvaldsen Museum. He was the most famous sculpture from Denmark. He lived for 40 years in Rome and returned to Denmark when he was in his 60’s (1848). He offered to give all of his sculptures and art collection to the city if they built him a museum to house it. He died before the museum was completed and he was buried in the inner courtyard of the museum. After that, we realized that it was 3pm so we found a Mexican restaurant and had lunch. We then walked to the Statens Museum for Kunst. This is a huge art museum here in Copenhagen. Unfortunately, most of it is closed for renovation until October 2006. We saw a sculpture display and drawings and paintings by the French masters including Picasso, Pissaro, Matisse and many others. On our way back to the hotel, we walked through the botanic gardens for 30 minutes until we were kicked out because they were closing. It did not rain today but it was cold. We had to order hot chocolate just to warm up. Dinner was at a deep dish pizza buffet restaurant. The dish was deep but not the pizza. Oh well, it was still good even though we chose not to eat the fish pizza slices. Norm was too tired and cold to walk to see the Little Mermaid statue at the harbor. That will be tomorrows project. Oh, we almost forgot. During lunch and even an hour later, there was some kind of protest going on. Banners and people shouting into microphones. We took a detour and did not attend the rally. You could still hear the loud shouting and cheering when we walked to dinner.