Royal Scandals and Chocolate Cake

Our hotel room is designed like cruise ship accomidations and consists of three, cot sized beds in one 6x10 foot room. One small table and a shelf that runs the 6ft across the far wall serve as our spots to place personal items. The bathroom is itty bitty and the entire room gets wet when you shower. Its interesting...Cloudy skies greeted us on Sunday morning but thankfully not with quite as much rain as the first day. We were soaked to the bone after all of our walking the first day and we had even more treking around planned for day two.
After breakfast on Sunday we left to see the changing of the guard at Amalienborg Palace where the Queen lives. The description of the event would probably be just about as interesting as watching it in person (not very) so I won't go into it here. I'll just say that the guys who guard the palace work 24 hour shifts and they spend that whole time on their feet.
A little later was a "royal site" scavenger hunt. We walked all over Copenhagen looking for churchs, palaces, and even a shop where the royal family has been purchasing hand painted dishes for several hundred years. The most challenging part of the task was trying to decipher signs/plaques in Danish and Latin. I'm going to stick with Spanish for now but being here among Danish speakers, who are more than happy to speak my language and help me out when i need it, makes me realize that I should make a better effort to learn some of the languages and about the cultures of the places I visit.
With a view of the Christiansborg palace in the background, we finished up our hunt with Professor Sorensen sharing stories about all of the royal scandals. My favorite was the Danish princess Dagmar who married the czar of Russia. Her son Nicolas was the last Czar of Russia, he and his family were killed by a military coup, and Dagmar was the only family member to survive. I kept flashing on the cartoon version of Anastasia.
I spent the evening walking around the pedestrian street and some of the central neighborhoods of Copenhagen with the other girls on the trip. All of the streets have a lane for bike riding and they are well utilized. Lining the sidwalks in racks and leaned up against buildings, there are bikes everywhere you turn. I expect every Dane has one, each with a basket afixed to the front (no wonder they're all so fit).
Before we walked back to the hotel for the night, at a cute little cafe called Hoppes, we had hot chocolate and chocolate cake with creme frache! I decided at this point of the trip that I'm not going to limit myself to only one dessert a day. There are so many different ones to choose from, why restrict oneself!?