My host family has returned!! With that comes food and chatter! It was so quiet I could barely stand it. They had spent the previous week in Austria skiing and drove the 10 hour drive home on Saturday.
I spent the night in Helsingnør with Sarah. Let me tell you, we have perfected the art of doing absolutely nothing. There may not be two people in the world who do it as well as we do. And we make it look so good.
The two of us take our respectable places on the couch ( or "sofa" if your Sarah) with laptops propped up, TV on an English speaking channel with Danish subtitles.
"I'm hungry."
"Me too"
"Pizza?"
"Pizza"
However, the pizza ordering was a tad more complicated than we had anticipated. We ended up having to walk down to the pizza place and point to the pictures of the pizzas we wanted. After they gave us an irritated "ok" we stood awkwardly in a corner of this very small pizza place and talked quietly to each other and watched Danish music videos on the TV. We do finally receive our two pizzas ( one for each of us of course) and have no trouble devouring said pizzas. We then go back to doing absolutely nothing. It was beautiful. In bed by midnight.
We plan to meet Sam and Francesca in the city the next morning to venture out to Christiania. Alarms set for 9:00...Two alarms. With two snooze options. We end up getting up at 10:00 instead. Oops.
Gross weather. Rain boots and rain jackets it is.
Missed the bus. (Something that happens to Sarah frequently) So we decide to just walk to the station and see the little city of Helsingnør. It was adorable and actually pretty busy for a rainy Saturday. Apparently in the summertime its a hoppin' place.
So, after getting pastries and apple juice like 5 year olds, we take the train and meet up to take the Metro.
Christiania.
Apparently, it was a playground before the days of peace, love, and drugs in Denmark. Now it is a small haven for those who want to sell and appreciate a little herbal drug called marijuana or those who want to live in a society without taxes or a sewer system. Hippies some may say. Free thinkers. Whatever they are, they are by definition, awesome. From the graffiti to the cheap mexicanish restaurant I was amused and amazed. There was something almost beautiful about the way this society within a society worked.
The police come every Thursday and a surprise day. As we were walking around we noticed big, scary men posted around in probably strategic places? From word of mouth we found out this is like their own little security system. They notify everyone when the police come, shops shut down, no one gets in any trouble. So Strange but So Fascinating. No pictures.
After our little self guided tour through the area we decided we were done being out in the cold rain. We went back to the city center and ate pizza, again! The pizza guy made a heart on my pizza out of some green spice. What can I say? My American charm and stuttering over Danish words must have really made an impression.
Later that night was an interesting Saturday of roaming around to random places, meeting random people, and making the journey home at yes, you guessed it 5:00am.
Bought tickets to Amsterdam Monday. March 16th-18th. I AM SO EXCITED. I'm sure that will be a blog all to itself.
Last night we went to the Sugar Bakery after meeting up with some people. (Something else in Danish) Things I Learned:
Heineken tastes like skunks smell. Not a fan.
Germans are very forward and are clearly not a fan of rejection.
When you ask the bartender for the cheapest shot...you get what you pay for
The line "You have the prettiest eyes I've ever seen, can we kiss?" is actually used but for that poor guy from Barcelona it was not a success. Solid effort?
The line "I'm on holiday here in Copenhagen, we should kiss." is also used. Who wrote the book they are getting these from?
I know most of the words to a Portuguese song yet do not know what they translate too.
Mcdonald's is where I do some of my best chatting. And not some of my best tweeting.
Overall, successful night. I now can no longer put off finishing this
Wish you were here.
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