After Kaitlyn and I finally reunited, we rushed off to our first Thanksgiving dinner with a group of students from her DIS program. It felt so good to have a real meal. I’d only eaten crackers all day! Plus Thanksgiving is by far my favorite meal and holiday of the year. It was great to be able to share the event with her Danish parents and brother; it was their first Thanksgiving! They were adorable and loved the concept of the wishbone. Once we got home, I got to skype with the ski team for a bit before bed. Yay skype!
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| Thanksgiving #1 (Thanks for the photo Lauren!) |
The next day Kaitlyn, Lauren, and I had some yummy homemade bread and cheese for breakfast before heading to Copenhagen to explore for the day. It took us over an hour to get into the city. Now I can finally understand Kaitlyn’s frustration with her commute. She has to change from a bus to a train just to get to the city. The bus runs only every hour on the weekends and you have to a do a TON of waiting outside at the stations. It’s super frustrating!
Our first aim of attack was to find Christiania – a hippie town in the middle of Copenhagen. It was neat to see the make-shift houses and see how separated it was from the city. It was like its own little world! After, we walked to the center of town, Strøget Street, and found the gorgeous view of the harbor. Since it is getting close to Christmas, the town was decorated and filled with lights. It was beautiful! Unfortunately it was cold and rainy so we hurriedly searched for a café to order some hot drinks. There were a bunch of stands and mini Christmas bazaars throughout the city. We tried some delicious Danish specialties – Glogg: a delicious drink of mulled wine with raisins (which I liked better than the mulled wine I’ve had in France!), æbelskiver: fried balls of dough served with powdered sugar and jam, romkugles: chocolate donut-like balls that tasted intensely like rum, and later the Christmas beer (Tuburg Julebryg).
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| getting the gløgg and æbelskiver from the super friendly Dane |
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| æbelskiver |
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| weird rumballs which I hated |
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Tuburg Julebryg - Christmas beer
note my matching hat with a bottle opener on the brim |
Next up was exploring Tivoli at night – an amusement park and with world famous gardens, a beautiful concert venue, and tons of food. The theme was Russian Winter so there were TONS of lights and it was absolutely beautiful to wander around! We headed back to Gevninge to eat dinner with Ava and then went back to Kaitlyn’s house to skype with my family for Thanksgiving. Kaitlyn got to see the real Cape Cod Thanksgiving. So much family! It was wonderful to catch up and alsosad to miss the festivities (especially Aunt Patti’s heath cake). After we decided to go out and explore the nightlife in Roskilde, which is the second largest city in Denmark. We had a great time – staying out till 4:30 in the morning!
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| Tivoli |
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| miss them! epic skype <3 |
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| a night on the town |
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