Dyrehaven and Bakken!

Went to Dyrehaven today aka the deer park/garden!

woke up early to make ham/egg sandwiches for my lunch and headed out around 9:35 am in order to get to kobenhavn station at 10 am - we decided to go at 10 am yesterday, but Claire woke up late, and they ended up coming later

but that's ok cause there's always people to meet and hang out with

so first things first, arrived at kobenhavn station and rode the s-tog with the ISUP social program coordinators to Klampenborg - apparently the s-tog is free every first sunday of each month (not sure if it's only that train/route though)

arrived at the park and met with a ton of greenery - we walked for about 20-30 minutes in order to reach the place where we hung out for the day - i got girl scout flashbacks - bleh i hate camping and the outdoors lol

it wasn't all that bad since we saw some deer on the way!

when we reached the hunting house where the royal family used? to go to when they went hunting - these grounds used to be private hunting grounds, but i think one of the social coordinators said that they opened it up to the public within the past 2 years (i might be wrong)

view in front of the house

behind the house you can see the sea!

then our small group of people when to go sit on a couple logs behind the house to wait for the other groups to come and some people started playing twister while i decided to sit and read =)


more people came, and i ended up playing a card game called 'president' with a group of people

when Gloria and Claire finally came i went to go sit and chat with them and we ate our lunches

after that we decided to go walk around - and dude i'm glad we did cause we saw a huge herd of deer next to the road!

and we got to see them pretty up close! =)

i took some videos too haha they're so cute with all their little tails swishing about

next we walked to this house with a little lake next to it and there was a swan swimming in it

funny story: we got really close to the water edge and then the swan started coming towards us and Gloria was like oh look it's coming towards us! aww it's so friendly!
and it keeps coming closer and getting out of the lake and i'm like uh either that or it might be attacking us lol

it keeps coming closer and moving faster so we ran away from the lake lol - the people sitting by the lake must have been like wth? why are those 3 asian girls running away haha

then we went over to the other swan and the little ducklings - so cute!

and when the momma swan waddles over to us the little ducklings follow her haha

then papa swan decides to join them...cause i'm pretty sure it thought we were going to hurt it's babies or something

sidenote: there were also these two hk girls (i'm guessing hk girls cause they spoke cantonese) who were seriously annoying - like they kept saying the little ducklings were "mo liu" cause they didn't do anything and stuff, and i'm like, well wtf do you want them to do? they're not here for your entertainment! and seriously it's like they can't keep silent at all since they kept spewing out word vomit and saying oh is it going to poke me? and the other girl would be like, well if it does then poke it back it can't hurt you blah blah blah - their conversation is what's "mo liu" if you ask me

yea but of course, it just sounds a lot more annoying in cantonese, and they just remind me of how shallow some hk girls can be

ok mini rant over

so our little excursion came to an end and we went back to the hang out area where people were throwing around a football, playing roundball (whatever that is), and talking and stuff

we left and went to Bakken amusement park around 3:30 pm - another long trek back to the entrance of the park!

Bakken! it's the oldest amusement park in the world! and i guess you can definitely tell haha it looked kinda more like a mini carnival to me rather than an amusement park since it had so many arcade games and food stands


high note: i got ice cream! they put whipped cream and strawberry jam on top! never had that before, but it was good =) nougat + marcipan flavor
this was so far the cheapest ice cream i've seen (every stand basically has around the same flavors but 2 scoops usually cost around 26-30 dkk, so this being 23 dkk was pretty cheap)

i guess danish people really like to sit down and eat and stuff cause Bakken has a lot of little restaurants as well where you can sit outside, eat, and chillax

we basically just walked around and looked at all the stalls and stuff since the rides are pretty expensive (and not that exciting)

it's a pretty small place (maybe just a tad bigger than the Houston Rodeo? it took us only about an hour to see everything

we left around 5 pm, and i headed back to Porcelaenshavn, fixed myself a quick dinner and read for marketing...it's so boring

but anyways - dead tired but had a fun day! when in your life can you be that close to about 50+ deers? =)