Frederiksborg/Frederiksborg castle part 1

En dejlig lørdag i marts besluttede vi at tage en tur op til Frederiksborg slot. Andrew var på besøg, så vi lejede en bil og kørte på til Hillerød. Vejret var ikke super til at starte med men solen kom frem lidt senere på dagen. Frederiksborg slot har en stor voldgrav og i den bor det ca. 10.000 ænder. Det var ærgeligt, vi ikke havde brød med til dem. A wonderful Saturday in March we decided to take a trip to Frederiksborg castle. Andrew was visiting so we rented a car and drove to Hillerød. The weather wasn't the best in the beginning of the day but it impoved a lot later. Frederiksborg castle was a huge moat and in it lives about 10,000 ducks. It was too bad that we hasn't brought some bread for them to eat. Det første værelse man kom ind i havde en udstilling af kjoler fra 1710 og frem. Pigerne elskede det. Der stod en mand og fortalte om, hvem af de danske prinsesser, der havde haft hvilken kjole på og både Hannah og Rebecca var tryllebundne. The first room you get into had an exhibition of dresses from 1710 and a hundred years ahead. The girls loved it. There was a man there that was explaining what princess was wearing which dress and both Hannah and Rebecca was spell bound. I slotskirken var der masser af søjler med billeder i gråtoner, der så meget livagtige ud. Jeg var vildt imponeret over at mennesker har bygge sådan noget og formået at frestille det. Man måtte ikke have blitz på nogen steder så det er derfor billederne er lidt utydelige. In the castle church there was a lot of pillars and on each pillar there was a painting in grayscale so very livelike. I was super impressed. No matter where we were flash was not allowed which is why some of the pictures are pretty fuzzy.

Pigerne var meget mere interesseret i slottet end jeg havde troet og håbet. Rebecca blev ved med at ville højere og højere op og de syntes alle baby englene var fantastiske; de kigger på en her på det sidste billede. Der var meget koldt alle vegne og jeg kunne ikke lade være med at tænke på hvor koldt der måtte have været i 1700-tallet.

The girls were way more interested in the castle than I had ever thought or hoped. Rebecca kept wanting to go higher and higher up and they both thought the baby angles were amazing; in fact they are looking at one in this last picture. It was really really cold in the castle and I couldn't help to think about how awefully cold it must have been to live there in the 1700's.