Sunday, March 17, 2013

Roskilde to Lindelse

We have WiFi!
Sort of.
Enough Wifi to write a blog, but not enough to upload a video.
So soon enough you will all get bombarded with a few choir tour videos!
Until then....

 
Writing their names with Viking letters
After our amazing stay at the hotel in Roskilde we headed to the Viking Ship Museum, which was only a few blocks away. This has been a highlight for some members of the choir because the museum had areas to dress up, write your name in a different language, and we
enjoyed a short video explaining
the history behind the museum.

Steph, Brad, Ryan and Leif exploring the gift shop
 
The history is pretty interesting. The museum holds five ships that have been pulled up from the harbor. They were placed there during medieval times in order to stop intruding ships from coming inland. These ships were originally sunk by placing enough rocks in the boat to weigh it down. They then sat just under the water so that enemy ships would crash into them before being able to reach land. These ships have been pulled up, preserved and placed into the Viking Ship Museum.

Preserved ships at the Viking Ship Museum

Permorning at Roskilde Cathedral
After leaving the museum we had our first concert in Europe. This concert was held at the Roskilde Cathedral. Between the standing order being completely different and our twenty-something voices trying to fill the huge space, we had alot of obstacles to work around. The concensus is that the concert wasn't great. It was a shortened concert (only 45 minutes long), but this didn't make it short and sweet. Instead there were some word memorization problems, a few pitchy areas and some shaky entrances. This means alot of room for improvement over the next week.
Concert advertising outside of Roskilde Cathedral

 

Mary, Ryan and Joslynn standing in the balcony
Originally we were told that we couldn't look around Roskilde Cathedral. As we walked in we were told that if we walked around the cathedral, we would have to pay the entrance fee. Luckily we were told before our performance that we would be able to walk around once we got done performing. The Cathedral was beautiful and had a balcony that over looked the entire church.
 
An exciting thing happened to one of our choir members while at Roskilde Cathedral. Leif met some distant relatives! He had never met these people before, but they were at the Cathedral and had the same name as Leif, so they got to talking and; Voila! Family!
 
Leif and his newfound family

After the concert and some time at the local market, it was time for a very long bus ride toward Rudkobing. One of the most hilarious and exciting things happened here; the bus got stuck! You heard me right! The bus got stuck! We went down a narrow road, and between the bus being big, the road being small and cars parked on the side of the street, we got stuck. So what do you do you do if this ever happens? Just have our big muscular choir guys lift the car off to the side in order to make room for the bus. President Henning is along on this trip for the time being, and he chipped in to help lift as well. After a few short minutes and many tired guys, they lifted the car off to the side a little which allowed the bus room to drive through. This can be seen when I upload the video for this day.

 
Once we got out we were on our way to Lindelse Church for our first home stay in Europe!

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