MoM goes to EuroCon 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Cheryl's plane to Iceland, parked at BWI
9/19/2007 		Dawn approaches (or more accurately, we approach dawn)
9/20/2007 		Approaching Iceland, pre-dawn
9/20/2007 		Reykjavik, Iceland airport, lovely wall of variously colored granite blocks
9/20/2007 		Leaving Iceland
9/20/2007
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Train station at Copenhagen airport
9/20/2007 		Cheryl at the Copenhagen main station
9/20/2007 		Lin
9/20/2007 		Martin
9/20/2007 		Lin taking a picture of me taking a picture of her
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Lin (all refreshed) and Cheryl (in need of a shower and a nap)
9/20/2007 		Pretty building across from Hotel Nebo
9/20/2007 		Hans and Marjon
9/20/2007 		Cheryl, Hans, and Lin
9/20/2007 		Monument in the street
9/20/2007
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Steven and Elizabeth
9/20/2007 		Lin with a monument near the Town Hall
9/20/2007 		One of many fountains found in Copenhagen
9/20/2007 		Gazebo for tourist info
9/20/2007 		Dinner at an Irish Pub: KC, Marjon, Hans, Steven, Elizabeth, Cheryl, Lin (and Martin took the picture)
9/20/2007
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Peter and Hans
9/21/2007 		Hanging out in the Nebo Lounge: Peter, Hans, Lin, Martin
9/21/2007 		Past DragonCon attendees KC and Anneli
9/21/2007 		Lin, Elizabeth, Steven
9/21/2007 		The "terrible" trio: Anneli, Hans, Cheryl
9/21/2007
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Anneli and Buster
9/21/2007 		Cheryl at Town Hall reception
9/21/2007 		Anne enjoyed herself at the reception
9/21/2007 		The room we were in at the Copenhagen Town Hall was lined with these city coats-of-arms around the ceiling
9/21/2007 		Copenhagen Town Hall. The lower bits are walrus tusks.
9/21/2007
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Fountain outside Copenhagen Town Hall
9/21/2007 		Copenhagen Town Hall
9/21/2007 		Amusement ride at Tivoli
9/21/2007 		Thoughtful panelists: Bruce Holland Rogers, Elizabeth Kerner, Ruth Nestvold and Max von Schlegel
9/21/2007 		Sara shows her belt knife/letter opener and marks, made for Anne McCaffrey
9/21/2007
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Martin's new Star Trek coat, painted as a birthday present by his wife Lin
9/21/2007 		Bacon sign. Mmmmm, bacon *drools*
9/21/2007 		Martin loves his new Dutch slippers
9/21/2007 		Anneli opening a present (small dragon figurine from Lin)
9/21/2007 		Anneli with her new portrait from Lin
9/21/2007
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Lin, newly promoted Master Artist of Pern
9/21/2007 		Lin examines her Master's pin
9/21/2007 		Lin checking out the volume containing Anne's autobiography
9/21/2007 		Lin with her Master's story by Cheryl, Hans, and Anneli
9/21/2007 		Lin receiving firelizard eggs
9/21/2007
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Two EuroCon attendees staying at the Nebo are attracted by the happy MoM Gather sounds
9/21/2007 		Hans dedicating a book to Lin
9/21/2007 		Zoey finds a comfortable perch?
9/21/2007 		Martin, our official groupie!
9/22/2007 		Saturday at the Con, Official MoM Tshirt Day! Anneli, Hans, Steven, Sara
9/22/2007
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Hans, Steven, Sara, KC, Elizabeth, Peter
9/22/2007 		Irreverent Zoey hops onto Anne's scooter
9/22/2007 		Anne shows a copy of her new biography by Robin Roberts
9/22/2007 		Anders and Ane
9/22/2007 		KC and her blue firelizard
9/22/2007
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The back of our MoM shirts, on Ane
9/22/2007 		The "oMo" building, our new secret headquarters
9/22/2007 		Mmmm, ice cream time!
9/22/2007 		Ane demonstrates the flying prowess of a fruit bat
9/22/2007 		Me and my groupie!
9/22/2007
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Anne giving her Guest of Honor Speech
9/22/2007 		Danish version of the Harper Hall Trilogy
9/22/2007 		Hans assisting with biography sales at Anne's signing
9/22/2007 		Cheryl's new outfit for the banquet (you can't tell, but there's sparkly bling all over the skirt)
9/22/2007 		Steven blinded by Elizabeth's gorgeous jacket
9/22/2007
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Sara, Anneli, KC, and Martin at the banquet (Peter and Cheryl also were at the same table)
9/22/2007 		Hans presenting Forty Years of Pern book to Anne
9/22/2007 		Planetarium
9/23/2007 		City street in Copenhagen
9/23/2007 		KC and Anneli strolling ahead of me
9/23/2007
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View up at the Sacred Heart church in Copenhagen
9/23/2007 		Sacred Heart sign
9/23/2007 		Interior of Sacred Heart
9/23/2007 		Interior of Sacred Heart
9/23/2007 		Part of pipe organ in Sacred Heart
9/23/2007
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Arched ceiling of Sacred Heart
9/23/2007 		Sacred Heart spire
9/23/2007 		Pond and ducks by the planetarium
9/23/2007 		Mallard ducks
9/23/2007 		Seagulls
9/23/2007
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Mallard pair
9/23/2007 		Magpie
9/23/2007 		Apparently we crack Elizabeth up!
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9/23/2007 Anne reading from The Ship Who Sang
9/23/2007 		The restaurant we scouted to have dinner with Anne
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Spot all five fledglings
9/23/2007 		Ugly ducklings and beautiful swans
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9/23/2007
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9/23/2007 Rubber ducky collection
9/23/2007 		Anne receiving a hideous light-up crystal dragon from Elizabeth (she's sharing the love, someone else had gifted it to her originally)
9/23/2007 		More presents for Anne, including a sweatshirt painted by Lin
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9/23/2007 Red ivy
9/24/2007 		Gate into Rosenborg Palace: Martin, Lin, Elizabeth, Marjon, Peter, Steven, (front) Hans, Anneli, KC
9/24/2007 		Pot belly pigs at Rosenborg
9/24/2007 		Rosenborg, the Danish royal summer palace
9/24/2007
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Modern art? No, dead sunflowers!
9/24/2007 		Floating pen for the pigs
9/24/2007 		Guard
9/24/2007 		Changing of the guards
9/24/2007 		Icon sculpted tree at Rosenborg
9/24/2007
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Another view of Rosenborg
9/24/2007 		Berries on an arbor vine
9/24/2007 		Arbor pathway in the Rosenborg gardens
9/24/2007 		Fountain at Rosenborg
9/24/2007 		Danish Queen
9/24/2007
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Danish Coast
9/24/2007 		Ferry Cruiser taken by Anneli
9/24/2007 		Statue of The Little Mermaid
9/24/2007 		Statue of The Little Mermaid
9/24/2007 		Fountain
9/24/2007
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"You Are Here"
9/24/2007 		Statues at Copenhagen airport
9/25/2007 		Time to go home
9/25/2007 		Goodbye Copenhagen
9/25/2007 		Mountains on Iceland's SE coast
9/25/2007
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Iceland coast, with glaciers oozing out between mountains from Vatnajokull, Iceland's largest glacial cap
9/25/2007 		Cute dragony island, somewhere off the coast of Canada or Maine?
9/25/2007 		Lovely meandering streams joining Merrimack River in Massachusetts
9/25/2007 		Newburyport, Massachusetts
9/25/2007 		More meandering streams
9/25/2007
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New York City
9/25/2007