Exploring Copenhagen

Of course, we woke up early the second day we were in Copenhagen. Still jet lagged. So we headed upstairs for our buffet breakfast. The spread was rather good. Not much varieties, but good food and wonderful brewed coffee. 

The evening before, daddy and I had wandered into the Tourist Information Center and inquired about the Hop-on-Hop-off bus. So after looking through the pamphlets and discussing, we headed to the Tourist Information Center to buy our tickets. We were lucky that we stopped at the HOHO booth to inquire further. We had wanted the 3 day bus with a 1 day canal tour, but they didn't have that. In the end, the girl gave us a good offer. We paid for the 2 day bus and boat and got 3 days bus. So we saved quite a bit there. 

The bus stopped just outside the information counter and we were just on time to get onto the bus. Here we are all ready for the bus ride:

We got a set of headphones each and could listen to the guide.

We didn't have any fixed plans. So when the bus stopped at Ved Stranden, we decided to hop off the bus and have the boat ride first as it was early morning and hopefully not so crowded on the boat.
We were among the first to get onto the boat. And daddy and ko-ko even had time to get us all a drink

Apple juice to mei-mei and beer for us.

Ko-ko, Ah Kong and Ah Ma had coffee.

Family wefie:

It was cloudy, but lucky it didn't rain. We had a very good guide who told us interesting facts as we rode along the canal:

And we were fortunate to get to see the Royal Danish Yacht, the Dannebrog

It was still tiring and Evelyn fell asleep towards the end of the ride

The guide told us to get our cameras ready as we passed under the bridge as we would be able to have a good (but quick) view of the Church of Our Savior. And I managed to get a nice shot of it:

When we were done, we hopped onto the next bus which brought us to the Little Mermaid. There was just such a large crowd there to take a picture. We managed to get a picture and head back to the waiting bus.

We hopped off the bus at Rosenborg Castle. It was one of the places we had in mind to visit. The gardens were so beautiful. But first.. we needed to get to the nearest toilet! Cold weather makes you need to pee often *grin*
Daddy set up his camera to take a nice family picture for us. Here are Mei-mei and Ah Kong posing for test shot:

We wanted to enter the castle for a visit, but changed our mind as it was a long queue and we were starting to feel hungry. As we exited the castle, we met with a nice gentleman who was a tour guide. He told us that we could walk a short distance and there would be a nice place to have lunch. As we approached the place he had pointed out, we realised it was the place we had had lunch at the day before.
So we changed our plans and headed towards Nyhavn. There was a place called Garden Restaurant & Bar which we had researched about before going on the holiday. So we went in search for this place. It was a lucky thing that there was still available tables.

We finished up lunch and headed towards Nyhavn again. To have a closer look at the beautiful buildings. All of a sudden, there was a downpour again. We had to duck into a restaurant and so we had more drinks there (and used their restrooms).
When the rain stopped, we finally got to take the "bucket list" photo when visiting Copenhagen: the colorful buildings in Nyhavn:

The building

Ah Kong and Ah Ma 

Ah Kong took this lopsided photo for us

We walked around a bit more and then headed to the nearest HOHO bus stop to take a ride back to The Square for a rest.
We found the seating area at the hotel was filled with colorful balloons. Guessed that it was probably in support of the Gay Pride Week celebration which was happening just across the street from where we were staying.

Rested a bit and later went out to a nearby restaurant for a warm bowl of Japanese ramen. Everyone was too tired to want to venture further and also was happy for the warm food.