Relaxing

I forgot to mention...

While we were in Amsterdam, we also went to the Amsterdam Dungeon. It was like a really good haunted house with a little bit of history about pirates and witches and torture. At one point, the surround sound had a voiceover that was about to kill us and we were sitting on benches that could tip back suddenly and we could hear the knife and everything! Haha. It reminded me of an interactive Fright Farm.

But back in Denmark...

Thursday

I watched TV all day and did some homework. No one was home.
I also rode my bike to the store and bought some toothpaste and cookies.

Friday

I planned to make dinner with Madhuri, but it seemed like a long ways to go so I ate most of a box of cookies (almond spritz dipped in milk chocolate and toffee bits, from Aldi) that I had planned to snack on all week. We decided to make dinner together some other night.

Then, around 10pm I got ready to go out on the town with Taylor and some of her friends. When I got downstairs, I remembered that I had to hang up my laundry and I lost my bike lights so I spent a while searching for those before I found them in my backpack.

Then around 11:30, Taylor and I met up at The Living Room and had some chai lattes. Her friends came and we went to 7-11 to get a hard cider for me and a hard lemonade for Taylor and then we went to a cheap bar and danced. Taylor's friends drank some screwdrivers that a guy they met gave them...she said she watched him pour it but Taylor and I still said no thanks.

Maybe because it was a cheap bar, maybe not, but there were only a handful of cute guys and the majority were creepy, weird, or old. At 3:00am, Taylor and I left. We said we were going to stay out til 5am or 6am but we learned that our trains ran all night so we just went home, haha.

I remembered why I don't really take the initiative to go out to bars:

1. it's expensive to buy drinks there
2. there are a bunch of people I don't like
3. we had to pay 20kr to check our coats
4. I get really sleepy that late
5. I don't like sweaty crowds of people I don't like and I don't really like big crowds in general

I think I'd prefer to dance at home with friends and make sangria and bake cookies and then watch a movie as we all fall asleep.

Saturday

I got to bed around 4:30am so I slept until 11:30am, then I went to meet Madhuri near DIS at 2pm. We went to the market and explored a tiny bit, smelled the coffee and tea and cheese and chocolates, and then we went to Christianshavn.

First, we paid 35kr to walk up the tower at The Church of Our Saviour, right next to where mom and grandma will be staying!

Mom and Grandma's rental apartment from the tower!

So we climbed up a billion stairs that were wooden, then as we got outside, we climbed up a billion stairs like this.

The top of the tower and the end of the stairs!

Everything is very beautiful from a tower.

The bells!

A fallen angel...kind of scary. Did he fall from the tower?

Then Madhuri wanted to go to Christiania because she'd never been there, so I showed her the ropes because I'm a Denmark pro!

Then we went around looking for a cafe, but the one we wanted to go to, Paludan, a cafe/bookstore and very cute, had a very long line. So then we went to Saint Peter's Cafe but he was closing so Madhuri got a chai and I didn't get anything.

Then, as we were saying goodbye, we decided we should make dinner and watch a movie at her house while her host parents are gone for two weeks to Malaysia.

Bjarne and Linda had Bjarne's sisters and their partners over for dinner, so I sat at the end of the table like the 7th wheel. It was delicious bacon-wrapped steak and fries and salad and bread and beets and carrots and mushrooms.

Sunday

I woke up at 9am then slept until noon. I think the 4am night was finally catching up with me.

Yet another reason I don't stay out that late usually...

So I haven't really done anything today. I brought my laundry up from hang-drying downstairs and made myself lunch and opened a book but didn't read it. I watch Parks and Recreation, mostly.

Haha. Back to normal tomorrow, though.