Park Day and Museum Day

Yesterday Begga and I went to Rosenborg Park in the city with a six-pack of beer and some absolutely rockin' tomato, asparagus, pesto, and mushroom pizza. When we were in the pizza place the Italian pizza guy said, "Now you have 2 roses." I said, "What?" He replied, "The rose on your back and you." In fact, he was referring to the peony flower tattoo on my back, but he thought it was a rose. His line was cheesier than the pizza he made for us! It was sweet though. After grabbing pizza we headed to the park where Begga and I had a lovely time tanning in our bikinis. The park was positively full of young scantily-clad people drinking alcohol in the sun. Begga says that because Copenhagen has such nice parks when it's nice weather it's normal for everyone to go to a park to hang out. Around 6PM we started heading back to the apartment. We stopped in a really nifty basement vintage record shop where I decided that I REALLY REALLY want a record player. There were so many unbelievable jazz and blues albums in the shop and they made me so happy! They shop owner was playing a jazz album that Begga and I have been humming since yesterday. Once we got home we gorged ourselves on Haribo candy, pretzels and sour cream dip while watching hours upon hours of the show Scrubs. We were supposed to go out on the town with her friend, but we ended up staying home instead. It was delightful. :)

Today her Dad came over and made us breakfast. In the afternoon we took a train to the Louisiana Museum. We drank beer and listened to my iPod on the train. It was really funny because the featured exhibit from the museum was Art of Asia - most of the art we saw was contemporary Chinese art that we had already seen in Dasahanzi art district in Beijing. So, basically we flew from China to Copenhagen to see the same Chinese art. Kind of funny. There was some other stuff that wasn't Chinese art that I was thrilled to see. I saw my first Francis Bacon piece in real life. It was his 'Self-portrait With Child.' Also, there was some Picasso, Giacometti, Phillip Guston, and others. In addition, there was a lot of sculptures incorporated into the outside garden like Moore and Caldera pieces. Caldera looked beautiful with the ocean in the background. Then, we took the train home. Begga's little 6 year-old sister Nita came over and we took care of her before going to have Indian food with the family. I let her wear my earrings and she took a liking to me. Now we are buddies. :-)