Viking Museum

On Wednesday, we woke up just a tad bit earlier than the day before. Our plan for the day was to visit the Viking Museum in Roskilde, which is an ancient Danish capital, used by vikings as a route to the sea.

We had to take a train to the city, which was half an hour away. We bought 2 day passes and it took us a little while to figure out which train to go on. Because we are familiar with the transit system back home, I think it made it easy for us to figure out the train system in Copenhagen. We were also not afraid to ask people questions, which helps a lot.

The museum was quite interesting as they had displays of 5 viking ships that were excavated over the last 50 years. It was very interesting to see how they brougth the ships to surface and preserved what they could find. They have also re-built replicas of some of the ships and we watched a video about a group of Danes who basically sailed these viking ships around Europe last year. It is definately not for people who easily get sea sick. Last year, when Jenning came, he wasn't able to go on the viking boat tour cuz there were a whole bunch of boy scouts in town and the tours were booked. This year, we found out that we couldn't take the ship tour cuz they only have it in the summer months (they need about 8 strong people to row the ship, and there were only about 2 hands full of people at the museum).

When we finally got on the train back to G&K's place, I was looking for my train ticket cuz G had told us that it is similar to the GO train where attendants may randomly check for your tickets. After searching every pocket of my purse, I quickly realized that my ticket was missing, I have no idea what happended to it cuz I was carrying all of our things and was constantly taking items in and out of my purse. Jenning was a little annoyed cuz I was telling him about pick-pocketers and I was the one who ended up losing my ticket! He told me that I would have to talk my way out of the situation, so I said ok, I'm not gonna worry about it until an attendant shows up. Next thing you know, we're being checked for our ticket! When the lady came by, I had a worried expression on my face and said, "I think I'm gonna be in trouble, I can't find my ticket". She replied and said something like, "Oh, don't worry, I'm not gonna hang you for not having a ticket, it's ok, just keep checking your purse to see if you can find it and I will come back". I kept searching for it for the third time and couldn't find it. After a few minutes, the lady walked past us and a passenger across from us gave us a don't worry look, flicked his wrist and whispered, "I don't think she's coming back"! I was really luckly that we totally looked like tourists cuz apprently the fine is 600Dk for not having a ticket, which is about $120 CAD. Thank God the lady was so nice! Jenning and I have agreed that I should let him keep both of our tickets from now on.