Indoor Adventures

Our shopping day was sooo windy and cold that we were forced indoors the next day...

The first stop of the day was Vor Frelsers Kirke (Church of Our Savior). This 300 year old Baroque church has an elegant twisted spire and amazing Botzen Brothers organ (1698) inside.
We were originally drawn to the church by the chance of climbing the spire, but found that it is closed during the winter months. It was well worth the visit though with lots of marble statues, an elaborate baptistry and beautiful carving. Even the pew boxes were interesting with their little numbered doors.

After a side trip to the mall we headed to the Zoological Museum next door to Jared's building. The most interesting part of the museum was their compulsion include nisse as part of Denmark's natural history. They even pieced together a skeleton of one of the little elves!

Here are some of the nisse in their "natural habitats"! They also had them interspersed throughout all of the displays including a cave man nisse with the wooly mammoth--pretty funny!

Here's Rachel posing with a seal! It was a great day made even better by the fact that Ruby was sooo good and slept much of the day away. (I think she was exhausted from all the cold weather the day before.)