denmark, 1962

the royal copenhagen museum was incredible...we saw the flora dancia collection{a super old huge dish set with different plants of Denmark on it} vibeke was so impressed that i knew what it was and was all excited to show me...she would tell everyone that i was american and they would give me free phamphlets, that everyone else had to pay for...yakob and gut met us there and we took a walking tour....we went into a huge church that was so unreal with all the tapestries and gothic statues..yakob works for the government and had to return to work and was to take a bus and meet us later....the harbor and the Amalicborg where the Queen livwes and yes she was at home, and the statute of the "little mermaid"...eller den litle harvfrue, pi dansk....she is so smalkl, but she has this huge reputation and represents this tiny country that i think is so great..on the way to tivoli, i saw a man run over by a bus and he was screaming in dutch, some awful swear words...it was the bus outside christianborg that yakob was to be on...he wasn't there so i walked around looking for him in the gardens until 4:30...i went to the shopping street to look for a phone when i saw it...it was a 1921 copenhagen blue plate in a store window,,, the year of my mother's birth...it was a portr of a woman on a chair and it was now mine...