Simply Sarah Suzanne

 Sunday began with the much anticipated danish pastry making class. The whole group went together and learned how to make four different pastries. The long twisted sticks have two types of seeds on them (our instructor says if you put seeds on anything, the danish love it and will buy it). The rectangles with the braided top have chocolate in them (these were my favorite). The white granules you see on these and the square danishes are actually sugar crystals, not salt. The square danishes have fresh vanilla cream on top, and then of course we have the round cinnamon rolls.  The class took about 4.5 hours and was a lot of fun. We learned a lot about making pastries, though I’m not sure we’ll be able to replicate them at home. After taking our 24 pastries (minus the three we ate and one we gave away) back to the hotel, mom and I decided to head out on our own for the Cisternerne. The Cisternerne is an art gallery, water reservoir, and urban dripstone cave.  It was original...

 We arrived in Copenhagen early Friday morning and walked about 15 minutes from Copenhagen Central Station to our hotel. Unfortunately because it was only 8:45 am our room was not ready yet. We were able to drop off our bags though and then ventured into town. We walked along the water for a bit and then in towards the center of town to get on a metro train to the National Aquarium. The aquarium was designed in the shape of a spiral to remind you of the ocean currents. It is broken into 3 sections, northern lakes and seas, tropical lakes and rivers, and the ocean. There are lots of touch pools and frequent “storytimes” where employees talk about the animals and feed them. After the aquarium, we took the metro back into the city center and then walked along Stroget which is the longest pedestrian street in Europe. We made our way to Somods Bolcher, a candy store where you can see them making their hard candy. We got some rhubarb candy to try in the store and bought some other flavor...