Easter Weekend, Staurday 23rd April 2001

Saturday 23^rd April

My wife’s birthday today so the kids had laid out a special table with drinks, biscuits, folded napkins, birthday signs and cards (which I had hurriedly purchased from the local grocery store at 9pm the evening before!!!). 

After a lazy breakfast we all ventured across to the local fitness centre for a swim, the water was cold and suspiciously cloudy so we didn’t stay long.  The fitness centre was in a huge shopping mall so we headed to a bakery and had coffee and the obligatory Danish pastry.

My oldest daughter, Breeanna, then came with me to the airport to pick the hire car needed for the next leg of my journey.  This was reasonably straightforward with no masses of extra charges which are the usual thing.  So, after a couple of wrong turns, I blame my daughter’s navigating, we eventually landed back at the hotel.

Breeanna and I went back to the shopping mall to meet Sharon and Eden for, what turned out to be a disastrous buffet Italian style lunch.  None of us felt that satisfied after leaving but hey, reasonable enough, a terrible error of judgement!

We headed into town on the Metro again as we had planned to see the National Museum of Denmark that afternoon.  Despite not feeling great we all enjoyed this large and well modernised museum plotting the history of man from the dawn of time on one floor, peoples of the world on another and  onto Danish History 1600-to present day.

It was all fascinating stuff and we could have spent a lot longer there.

The best bit for the kids was the Children’s Museum which I must say was set out brilliantly.  There were all sorts of displays from different eras and cultures, from Pakistan’s society to age of the Vikings, each with their own set of interactive resources (clothes, fake food, helmets and swords!!).  The kids loved going up and down the replica castles and homes it was fabulous!

By 5pm we were all a little beat and none of us feeling too good so we headed home to the hotel.  Not long after getting home poor Breeanna promptly threw up in the bathroom and our worst fears were being confirmed, food poisoning!!!!!  The poor soul was hot and clammy and very pale and even after a hot bath and bed still didn’t look too well so we decided she should sleep in our bed.  Just before settling down for the night she sat upright, complaining of feeling dizzy and then……..oh boy their she blows!!!! It’s enough to say that we had to get rid of a duvet, a couple of sheets, two towels and a mattress cover to house keeping….sorry folks.

Well at least she settled down for the night and went to sleep and we thought that might be the end of it.  Not so, yours truly awoke at 3 in the morning and pondered the possibility of loosing my lunch for a while, all the time trying to convince myself that it would go away, not so.  After a sleepless night and a couple of visits to the bathroom we hailed a weary dawn.