Christmas Markets

Monday

I went thrift store shopping with Taylor for a bit only to find that the Red Cross didn't have much good stuff and this great store (Episode) had a ton of great things and even made diy stuff from old styles in their shop, but it was pretty expensive for used things, like $18 for a sweater.

Then I went to the post office to return the hair dryer I bought for gramma and I had to pay for the shipping so that sucks.

But the city is all decorated for Christmas with garland and hearts!

Wednesday

I had to meet with a group to work on our presentation for Medical Ethics on euthanasia at 11am, and then I went to Tivoli!

It's all decorated for Christmas, too.

It smelled like pine and it was like Christmas magic!

A lot of the shops were the same as during the Halloween set-up like mittens and hats, but there were also a ton of Christmas decoration-type things for sale.

And there was a reindeer by a sleigh!

There were some really great candles that I wanted in the shapes of Christmas trees and flowers.

There was a sweet Christmas castle thing with robot elves, too.

And a Trojan horse reindeer, for I don't know what.

And, duh, I had cinnamon sugared mini-donuts.

Friday

I woke up to get to class by 10am, but when I checked my email on the train, I learned that class was cancelled. This is the second time this teacher has cancelled class at the last minute so that a lot of people showed up to class.

Anyway, after being pissed that I learned I could have slept in, I decided to hit up all the Christmas markets since I was already in Copenhagen.

The Christmas market at the Stork Fountain on Strøget was just opening when I got there, and no one was opening their stalls yet.  

So I went to a branch of the bakery that ma and gma and I got all our pastries at while they were here, and I got a coffee and a kringle. The kringle had raisins and a lot of sugar and custard and it was amazing.

After slowly eating my kringle, I went back out to the market, and a lot of stall still weren't open so I just looked around. There were a lot of hats and mittens and scarves and ornaments and food.

The temperature hit freezing last night, so there was some frost!

Then I walked over to the Christmas market on Nyhavn.

And it was a lot of the same things I've been seeing at all the Christmas markets. But all of them were very prettily decorated and it smelled good and I definitely missed any large crowds. 

Then I walked back to DIS along Strøget, and at an intersection a woman tapped me on the back and started talking to me in Danish. She asked (in Danish) if I spoke Danish and I was like "eh" so she asked me in English if she could take my picture for a magazine. She said it was about street fashion, so she asked me for my name and after she took about 4 pictures, she asked me if I knew the brands of things I was wearing. I didn't really so I let her look at the tag of my coat and she wrote that down and thanked me. Then we said goddag to each other and I felt really awesome.

This is what I was wearing.

This isn't the picture for the magazine. I don't know if it would ever be published or if I made this face in the real photo, but I just asked some random girl on the street to take my picture so I could put the photo in my blog of the outfit I wore that got me some paparazzi, LOL!

Haha, and the Facebook status I wrote about this got more likes than anything else I post on Facebook.