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I didn’t have time to post pictures during part of the trip, so here are a few more rounding out our trip.

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We got into Paris this afternoon, and really hit the jackpot. Here’s our room from the door.

What’s that stuff in the window? Oh…

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I haven’t had Internet connectivity for a few days, so this post catches up on three cities.

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We just spent two and a half days in Copenhagen, to start our summer vacation. The first day we arrived early in the afternoon, and it was raining and just dark, dank, and uncomfortable. Well, maybe not that bad, but since we walked from the train station to our hotel in the rain, it felt that way. I thought it would be at most a quarter-mile, but it was more than twice that far, so we got twice as wet. We were exhausted from the flights (Laurie and I were on different planes, on different airlines, to get good ticket deals), so we broke my self-imposed rule of staying up until at least 8:00, and went to sleep around 4:00… and slept until 6:00 the next morning!

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