Copenhagen's botanical garden

 We went there on an offhand tip, not expecting to have to stand in line

 To see a specific attraction in the tropical greenhouse

 Namely this flower that blooms every ten years or so.

 After looking at the slightly smelly plant, we went to goggle at cacti (very, very exciting)

 And be taken more photos of

Because we were in a botanical garden and everything was beautiful.

Here you can read a fairly up-to-date article about the flower, it is only in Danish, but you can always google translate it (if you're that interested). It's supposed to bloom only every ten years, but the last time it happened here was two years ago. 

Hans also took heaps more photos of us in the garden, and also in Tivoli later on. I pretty much let my camera be, being too busy going on carousels and tiny roller coasters and "driving" small cars with Cecille. I was extremely tired after this weekend, but mostly because we did a lot of fun things all day long, and sleep was fairly far down on our priority list.

At least this time we'll have lots of photographic evidence that we had fun. 

Copenhagen, Copenhagen

 Last weekend, I went to visit my Danish friend Cecille in Copenhagen

 She brought me home and gave me food and drinks and A BONFIRE which made for a happy Norwegian

 Then, next day, we went to a place called Grød (porridge) and got... porridge

 We walked all over Copenhagen, with Hans as our personal paparazzo

Walked a bit more, ate food and walked some more in these beautiful gardens

And this was all before we went to the botanical garden and Tivoli (see next post). Cecille's boyfriend Hans took photos of Cecille and me all over Copenhagen, by the statue of the little mermaid, in a whole lot of gardens, in front of fountains, by street lights and in Tivoli. We've known each other twelve years, and yet we only have about three photos together. Cecille and her family lived in Norway from she was ten, then she moved back to her hometown of Copenhagen after turning twenty. Since then, I've visited her once a year, or every two years, and she's been to Norway a few times as well as visiting me in England, but we've just photographed one another, and never really been photographed by other people.

Cecille was one of my very few friends in school (age 13-16), and a lot of how my personality has developed to something more positive and brave is due to her friendship. All the hearts.