Today we started out by visiting the Deer Park and Bakken. The Dyrehavn is a large park that actually does have deer in it and is used for royal hunting still. Attached to it is the oldest amusement park in Europe (supposedly, why would they lie?). We did actually see some deer in there but the pictures didn't come out spectacular with the zoom distance and the shadiness of the woods and my shaky hands but you can definitely tell we saw some. The amusement park was just beginning to open up but we had to leave to head to Lyngby to meet up with Ditte for lunch and also poke around Lyngby for a bit beforehand. We were sort of worried about getting parking because there isn't a lot in the town but we managed to get a space in a parking garage pretty quickly so things worked out there. There appeared to be some sort of open air market, flea market, festival thing going on so we walked about the area for a bit and went into the mall there where I bought a couple of suspect Danish music CDs before heading out to meet up with Ditte.
We ate the sushi and sticks and, surprisingly, had sushi. This was a bit fresher than the first night we had sushi and we just chose menu assortments. I enjoyed what I got very much and we followed up with some sorbets that turned out to be strawberry and mellon types. We talked for quite a while. Ditte has already been to Machu Picchu which is my next trip in October so she shared a lot of details and suggestions. She said with the stairs and climbing it was very strenuous and she thought it was harder than climbing Kilimanjaro, which she had been done before. She also said that the trip was very fun and the guides from the tour group she took were great and knew a lot of history and spoke English very well. I am using the same tour group at her suggestion so hopefully things will be like they were for her.
After lunch we drove her home then headed back to the apartment. We got cleaned up a moment then headed back into Copenhagen for a short souvenir shopping run then dinner which we had at the Reef N Beef, which we ate at my first night in Denmark my last trip. The food was good but our waitress was new and not so skilled at busy nights so the service was not as good as the first time. I had an emu carpaccio followed by a sirloin that made me choose it for the New Zealand pepper sauce which really ended up having no spice and was more like A1 sauce than anything. I was disappointed in that but the food was good anyway. Finished with an apple tart the whole meal was very tasty.
We walked around town for a while after dinner then headed back to the apartment where I had to get going on packing things for my trip home on Sunday.
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