Tivoli!

Right in the middle of Copenhagen lies Tivoli, the famous amusement park. It's probably the biggest tourist attraction in Denmark and one of those thing that you must see when visiting. I've been meaning to go to there all semester, but was pretty put off by the $50 entrance fee. Luckily, I have a small Danish class so our teacher decided to take us all there, paid for by the school. Tivoli has been closed since September and reopened a few weeks ago for Christmas. There were lights and decorations everywhere and a parade was going on right when we walked in.

There's a nightly light show over the little lake. It was gorgeous and the music was incredibly epic.

Our teacher gave us a 'scavenger hunt' list to translate all the names of the rides and stuff. Nope, we just wanted to have fun. Walked around drinking beer and saw the whole park in about 15 minutes, wow it's small. I guess this isn't the States and it's in the middle of a city. We contemplated going on some rides but they were $10 each! Definitely not worth it, so we just longingly looked at them and continued to walk around.

giant enemy crab!

Found the little Greenland exhibit, which is probably the creepiest thing I've ever seen. Weird elves everywhere and most of them look either drunk or dead. We really couldn't figure out the purpose of the exhibit....is this how Danes view Greenlanders?

After a few hours we met with our teacher and he bought us all Glögg and Aebleskiver and we were stuffed. I think he spent about $100 on each of us, thanks DIS!

It was Wednesday night and I didn't have my morning class so I definitely needed to go out. I had plans to meet some friends I made in Switzerland. Hanna is a Brazilian guy who went to high school in Denmark and was visiting Copenhagen with his girlfriend for Thanksgiving. Went to the Scottish Pub and then to the Viking Bar. Awesome people, we had a lot of fun.