A little more WOOSTER in CPH!

GUESS who came to visit this weekend :)

ERYN!! She popped on down to Copenhagen all the way from Reykjavik for the weekend :) It was SO great to see her!! We had all kinds of fun planning her visit (we presented her with a printed itinerary upon her arrival!).

Friday evening, Eryn, Emily, and I made dinner and spent time with Emily's host dad. He's so great (even though he DID mention that his favorite part of the United States was ARKANSAS because it reminds him of France. Just HOW many things are wrong with that statement?!). We had a lovely time sitting and chatting, drinking wine and eating yummy food.

After coffee, cake, and some good old Danish TV, we accompanied him to hear his coworker's band at a cute little cafe in the meatpacking district (COOLEST area! AND it's right by my apartment!). The band was a lot of fun, as was the general atmosphere. Before we knew it, we were closing down the bar!

DISCO!

Sparkly pink drum sets make any performance better.

The band! (Can't remember the name, oops)

This was the BEST NIGHT! It was GREAT catching up with Eryn and hearing all about her Icelandic life, as well as getting to know Emily's host dad! He was hilarious and very easy to talk to, and I already plan on going back to their home to meet the rest of her host family.

Taking Eryn to the Deer Park was a MUST, so that took up most of Saturday. The fall colors were beautiful and the deer did not disappoint! I'm so glad we got to see some BIG GUYS with the ANTLERS :)

He ran across the road RIGHT in front of us!

It was also some kind of organized kite flying day! It was fantastic; everyone was flying some kind of themed or generic kite. Some were quite creative, and I noticed that Toy Story kites were surprisingly popular!

They were playing King of the Hill (rock?); I HAD to photograph it.

It's a frog kite!

After the Deer Park (must've walked FIVE MILES in there! We were there for hours!), it was time for some Mexican food and THEN...

Tivoli in October is huge masses of ALL the Halloween decorations EVER - lit up, painted and piled on top of each other. But in a classy way! There was a lovely Halloween market set up, a corn maze, performances, people endearingly dressed as witches, etc. The rides were also still open! Were it not for Eryn's visit I'm sure we wouldn't have made it over there before it closed until its Christmas market opening (SO excited for that!! AH!), so this worked out well for everyone :)

Flying swings - Eryn, Emily, et. al. are somewhere on there :)

Testin' out the new PLAYSTAION! DANCE style.

Tivoli is phenomenal; I love that it does goofy seasonal openings and I CANNOT wait for the Christmas market. My goodness.

The third thing on my Eryn's "MUST SEE in CPH" list (along with the Deer Park and Tivoli) was Christiania, so that was Sunday's activity! We walked through the markets (barely resisting spending billions of kroner on snuggly wool socks and super cool t shirts), wandered through the residential areas by the lake, and played in the child's play area :)

We had dinner at the cute little restaurant I've started going to EVERY time I go to Christiania:

Not so attentive, but I like the hanging beads :)

After finishing the night with the best hot chocolate in the WORLD, we headed home for the night. Another very wonderful day with our favorite Eryn :)

Monday wasn't nearly as exciting as the previous few days; it IS worth noting, however, that I cranked out an eight-page paper in one night (it isn't a half bad paper, either, if I do say so myself!). Eryn left us Tuesday afternoon after a lovely morning coffee date. Miss her already :(

Unfortunately, the workload is actually existent and then some this week, most likely because it's the last week before our two week travel break (EEK!). I have a Danish oral midterm tomorrow, which should be... highly interesting. We'll see how it goes; I've been muttering random Danish phrases under my breath ALL DAY, so if that doesn't prepare me, nothing will. 

We studied at Cafe Paludan today - I'm seriously kicking myself for not discovering this place earlier in the semester! Very "hyggeligt" - candles, books, and warm food are a few of my favorite things in life, and here they were all in one place :)

I'll try to squeeze in another update or so before leaving for PARIS on Friday (they'd better have cleaned up all that trash from those goofy protests in the streets by the time I arrive!).

Hav en god dag! 

(...After a full day of studying, I've concluded that written Danish is just poorly spelled English)