Copenhagen

I made it. I made it. I made it. Woohoo for surviving my first (and maybe only...) hostel experience. It was actually totally fine! Although, apparently we stayed at a nicer than normal hostel which pretty much just means they charge you extra for every possible thing. Storing luggage after you check out: "Twenty kroner please." If you can imagine, handing over my very precious kroner to the woman behind the desk at the hostel got a little old after a while. Guess it was a good thing we only stayed there for two nights!

The grey sky= proof I climbed those narrow stairs in the bad weather. EEK!

Anyway, regardless of the hostel experience, Copenhagen was a great city. We got there Saturday morning-- a little bit too early in retrospect-- and found this cute hole-in-the-wall restaurant that made the most delicious salads. Sidenote: I SERIOUSLY miss salads. I swear, I would have people looking at me like I had four heads if I ever dared to order a chopped salad in this country. After we all ate our salads a little too quickly to be ladylike, accompanied by the casual "oooh this is so good" or "mmmmmmm avocado", we found our way to the canal to get on an hour long guided canal cruise. I definitely would recommend the canal cruise. You might not be able to hear a word of what the your guide is saying but you will definitely get a lot of good photo-ops. Besides, if you are like me, you will forget the names of everything anyways and then type it into google so that you don't mislead your many blog followers. For example, we climbed this great spiral church on Sunday morning, in the rain nonetheless, and until I typed in "spiral church in Copenhagen" I did not know that the proper name was Church of Our Saviour; yes, I know, what an original name!

The Danish sure do know how to make a good Danish.. har har har

We also saw a castle, a church, a few gardens, the palace, and climbed the Round Tower (note: I don't remember the name of any of them... oops). It was definitely a trip full of walking and sightseeing but don't worry I definitely took a danish break every once in a while. Lets put it this way, when I got back late Monday night I was really looking forward to starting a brand new day on Tuesday full of oatmeal, veggies, and whole wheat food products. I can only handle so many croissants and muffins and baguette sandwiches in one weekend.