Tivoli Gardens

Yesterday Tivoli, the amusement park in the center of Copenhagen, had a special event for kids with cancer and their families. Turns out that due to my childish behavior, I qualified for free tickets (just kidding. I was invited because of the work we did on the Kemo-Kasper game I mentioned a while back).

The girls were psyched that they got to skip school in order to go to Tivioli and super psyched that everything was free and there were no lines for any of the rides. Usually Mathilde is the spinaholic who takes the kids on all of the nausea inducing rides, but unfortunately she had to work. Luckily though, my mom and I were able to hijack the girls' 14 year old cousin to chaperone on the rides.

My mom and I had a great day walking around, chatting and finding the sunny spots, and the girls had an absolute ball. I think they rode one roller coaster about 15 times in a row.

Below are some pictures from the day. The first is my Mom enjoying the Tivoli palm trees.



Anna and her friend Sara on the roller coaster.



Emily and her cousin Madeline (the Danish cousin).



Notice my Mom's cotton candy is about half the size of Emily's. You wouldn't guess Emily got hers first. I realized that giving my mom cotton candy is kind of like giving Homer Simpson a doughnut.



This is me trying on the latest hat in my growing collection.