homesick? definitely not

so i was right - that rather nasty trip to Denmark (courtesy of Continental airlines) definitely bogged me down

now? i'm a rather happy camper

Day 1 (cause you know, yesterday doesn't count)
woke up and went grocery shopping with my friend Dora at fakta

which is one of the few things that are open on a sunday

and i bought a bottle of pure orange juice, some jam, bread, a bag of frozen bolognese pasta, and some toilet paper haha - all of which cost around 94 dkk (around $15)




and then i ate my brunch consisting of some of that bolognese pasta (which was quite good)

then Dora and i walked to Forum metro station and Dora stopped by a bakery to get a pastry



and then bumped into some people at Forum metro station that we met yesterday and then we took the metro to Kongens Nylorv metro station which is basically downtown and then started the treasure hunt

first stop of the treasure hunt: the Royal Theatre aka Det Kongelige Teater

(it's that building on the left)

couldn't really take any close up pictures of it since there was construction around it

2nd stop: New Harbor aka Nyhavn
it was built in the 1670s by Swedish soldiers and used to be a red light district with strip clubs and stuff but then they wanted to clean it up so now there's only one strip club left and there's also a bar named Hong Kong that's open 24 hours and only closes for 15 minutes in order to clean up the place

3rd stop: the Royal Palace aka Amalienborg Plads

this is where the crown prince and his wife live

and this is where the queen lives and the flag isn't up so she isn't home - apparently they royal family is at their summer house

this is a guest house

4th stop: Frederickskirken or Marmorkirken ("the Marble Church" - even though only the base is made out of marble)

inside

the dome

after this, half our group went to Ofelia Beach to watch the game on a big screen
and the rest of us walked around some more - supposedly to the next stop but it was far away so we ended up stopping by a grocery store where some people bought stuff

and then we went to go watch the game - which was worth ditching the treasure hunt haha

look at the huge screen and people!

and Germany scores! there were actually lots more people standing up - and some people threw up confetti too haha i believe there were more German fans than England fans

then we went to a pizza place and got pizza - shared a Vegetariana? pizza with my friend Gloria

and since we took it to go we ate it while sitting next to the harbor - nice right?

and then rode the metro back to Fasanvej Solbjerg and walked back to Porcelaenshavn

oh yea, did i mention that the weather was super nice? except it got hot at times since there were no clouds
but yea, a nice 70-ish degrees =D

uh i think this is gonna be one of the longer blog entries - i probably won't write that much for some other ones - i guess it'll depend on how much time i have