Bon Bon Land!

ok so posting about what i did after i've already left Copenhagen is really depressing =(

but i shall start with my trip to Bon Bon Land!

i met up with Amy around 10 in the morning and we went to go buy our tickets at the central station

we asked the info desk person which train we needed to take and what track it was on but when we got on a train we got confused cause he didn't tell us that we needed to take a train to Koge and then change onto another one to get to Holme-Olstrup - so we got off the train and went to ask a lady for help
and then she told us that we were actually on the right one lol and that she saw us get off - fail

so we took another one (which took longer to get there) but that's ok since we weren't in a hurry or anything
then when we arrived at Holmes-Olstrup we followed other people who looked like they were going to Bon Bon Land - actually i think everyone who was on that train was going to Bon Bon Land since it's basically in the middle of nowhere haha
anyways, i'm not gonna elaborate on my time at Bon Bon Land since you can see pictures online

but here are some highlights:

my last hot dog =(
my last soft ice =( (my last HUGE soft ice - the swirl was like...5 inches tall or something! and it was thick and creamy - with cocoa powder! - so it made me pretty full haha)
this ride with the ridiculous slope - awesomme! amy and i went on twice

this ride was pretty fun but sooo dizzying cause the roller coaster car (that fits 4 people in it) spins around while it goes through the tracks - it was pretty funny to listen to the Danish guy sitting next to amy though - he kept saying "whoa" every 5 seconds lol

we ended up going home at around 5 (it's a pretty small park) and got back at around 7

so i cooked myself dinner and then saw that my friend was going to the movies from 8-9 and i figured, why not go? it's my second to last night in cph

so i went and we watched Inception! =) it was an awesome movie - really cool

and the theater is HUGE (it was the cinemaxx near at Fisketorvet) - like maybe 1/3 bigger than the biggest ones at AMC (and probably four times bigger than the smaller ones)

all in all a pretty enjoyable day =)

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? =)

TIVOLI!

yay went to Tivoli yesterday (and was gone the entire day)

i have a feeling this post is going to be super long - i'll try not to bore you! lol

ok first things first - lunch!

then took the metro and then the s-tog (another train...a nicer one) to Kobenhavn station to meet up with friends - they were late so i just played on my iphone haha

S-tog

it's a reallly big station!

isn't that a lot of stuff?? the lady carrying all that was old - macho old lady eh?

then we walked to burger king since some of people were hungry

they have carrot sticks on the menu! so healthy -
i think we have like..those gross apple "fries"

then off to Tivoli!

we just basically walked around Tivoli for a couple hours taking pictures of stuff and everything since we decided not to ride and of the rides (cause they're not that exciting/fun and it costs too much money)

but there's lots of stuff to see! all the restaurants are really nice and it looks so relaxing to just sit there and eat!

anyways - there's an entire Asian/China section of the park - we were all wondering why and thinking that it was a waste of money to come to an amusement park with all this Chinese stuff lol but we figured it was because not many Danish people go to China? i mean it makes sense - there are very very few Asians
and if you do see an Asian, they look Southeast Asian

anyways - kept walking around and saw lots of cool/pretty stuff

then we took a break and sat down and rested/ate cause it was only around 4:30 and we already walked through the entire park (it's pretty small!) and Claire gave me one of her sandwiches =)

then we went to the aquarium! apparently it's the longest aquarium in Europe - 30 meters long with 1,600 fish

apparently you're not supposed to take pictures, but i took some =P

they have lots of interesting fish in there! an employee came down and told us about some of the fish they have - they have sharks (apparently they feed them a lot so they don't eat the other fish), that japanese puffer fish that people eat, sting rays, Picasso fish, green eels (i totally forgot what they're called haha), spotted eels,...just to name a few

and the glass was fitted by the Japanese (i was not surprised haha) - if you look really closely, you can see where they fit the pieces of glass together - the glass is 13.5 cm thick (or was it 16.5 cm? i think it's 13.5 cm - but anyways it's really thick!)

then we went back to the promenade theater where we sat before and watched Tivolis Promenade Orchestra perform

then we went to go wait for the pantomime show to start

some of the pantomime shows at the park are more than 200 years old - the one we watched is called 'The Tailor Deceived'

it's basically a boy and a girl meet (i think the tailor is the girl's father)

and she meets this guy who comes into the tailor's shop and they dance around and fall in love, but the guy who watches over the shop (the clown) sees them together, tries to tell the tailor, but of course the couple is smarter than that so they feign ignorance and stuff to mess with the clown

and then the guy goes into the forest where he meets a goddess? who gives him a magical sword (i guess to help him win the girl that he likes)


apparently when he taps it on the ground it makes the people who walk over it dance?/hop (well it messes with them haha)

as you can see - a couple came along and the girl steps in the spot and she's jumping around

and the dude totally doesn't believe her

but then he ends up jumping around too

and then the rest of the show consists of the couple messing with the clown - like back in the tailor shop, she's all sad, but then the colorful dude comes

she takes the iron board away (that the others set up) and puts the sheet over him so when the clown comes over, and tries to iron the sheet, he pops up and freaks the clown out

of course, the clown tells the girl and she's like, what are you talking about? i can iron just fine

haha so yea, they mess with the clown and stuff for some more scenes and get him in trouble with the tailor

and then in the end the tailor accepts them and they end up together! =)

yay for happy endings!

and after this Gloria and Nick left, so it was only Claire, Fey and me left

we walked around Tivoli some more and since we saw everything we decided to go look at stuff in the shops - there's so much cute stuff =D (look on fb for the photos)

Tivoli doesn't really seem like an amusement park to me - maybe more like a high-end amusement park haha all the restaurants are so nice and the souvenir stores are so pretty and nice too! and of course, the stuff in them are expensive

so at 8 we went to go see the ballet - La Ventana
i don't think this had a real story or anything like the pantomime - but during this performance i did notice how muscular the dancers' calves were o_o and the dudes' butts haha

then it was more walking around and looking at more stuff and then we watched the concert! first was Dicte - some lady who apparently is not that famous: http://www.tivoli.dk/fredagsrock/kunstnere/dicte

her songs kinda sucked and at times i didn't understand what she was singing - in one of her songs she kept singing shiver and then she would dance/shake - Claire and i didn't know whether to laugh or not haha it was so weird cause it looked like she was having a seizure

she sings pretty well but at times it's really breathy =| and like i said, her songs suck - she kept singing "i wanna cigarette" in one of them

then we waited for Thomas to come out since he was the main even i'm guessing

anyways - we saw that people had some beer cups with Tivoli on them and it turns out that you can buy drinks with them and get the hard cup for 5 dkk and then you can return the cups and get your 5 dkk back - it's part of the refundable cup system there, and we wanted one so we went up to one of the stands and asked if we could buy one, but the girl just gave us each one for free lol - there was still beer in them and they're used, but hey, they were free!

so Thomas Buttenschøn came out! unlike Dicte, all his songs were in Danish - so it was pretty cool to be listening to all these songs in Danish

here's one of the songs he sang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy0H2YnBhi8&NR=1

yes, he has explosive hair haha

and he's pretty well-known since people were singing along and i'm guessing this song is his most well-known one - maybe? - since he sang it last and everyone was singing it with him

after listening to it on youtube i realize how different it sounded live haha it was really fun! and plus, you get to see Danish people dancing around (some of them look awkward)

on the downside though i think i inhaled enough second-hand smoke to last me a lifetime - so many people smoke here!

am i boring you yet? hopefully not cause i'm not done yet lol

sooo after this we went to see the light show - Tivoli Illuminations!

i don't have any pictures of it because my camera ran out of batteries =( but Fey recorded it

it was basically lasers flashing everywhere through fountains and water and fog with music playing - it was actually really pretty and pretty cool although i got blinded by the lasers a couple times

then we finally left Tivoli after 10 hours (we arrived around 2:30 ish)

since the S-Tog doesn't run anymore after 12 (or so we thought - some trains were still running) we walked to Nørreport station, took the metro back to Fasanvej and Claire and Fey walked me back (thanks!)

yup, so that basically sums up my day at Tivoli - hopefully this is the longest one i'll have to write...although probably not since i still have 2 weekend trips coming up!

random note: seriously, my suite mate uses up a ton of toilet paper - we only have one roll left and i bought 4 last sunday - ah but i just went to the bathroom and apparently she bought some more - geez at least she bought some - i hope she knows she's the one who uses it all up