My weekend in Copenhagen was nothing short of crazy. It is definitely a different city but we still had a very adventurous time. The first day we arrived we did some touring of the centre town. We searched up and down for a lunch place to eat and were stunned by the costs of lunch. We decided that this meal would be our one and only in a restaurant for the weekend. For that reason, we decided to go with a Danish restaurant so we could get the full cultural affect. I can definitely tell you that I am not a fan of Danish food. We all got some sort of fish because the seafood is supposed to be amazing. I ordered Salmon not knowing that it was smoked. I HATE smoked salmon. For lunch I had 4 pieces of smoke salmon and one piece of baguette, with some lettuce garnish.... so all i had for lunch was bread and a piece of garnish. Lauren, one of the girls who came with us, ordered a chicken salad. The server told us it was chicken with mayonnaise. We are thinking the sandwich version. However, we found out that it was more like a mayonnaise sundae with cubes of chicken throughout. My meal cost me about $27 Cad.

After this filling lunch we headed around downtown and ran into a painting exhibition. It was called painting love. Everyone got a chance to paint on sheets that were held up in the square. You were supposed to paint what you thought was love. Apparently, there were doing one large city a month for a year and it was documented and later shown as a exhibition. It was very cool.. and we all loved painting!

That night decided to go out downtown. We asked the people at the front desk where to go that was cheap and like a pub. They sent us to a bar with a 50 dollar cover... so we left and stumbled upon a little pub called Heidi's. We were so happy to find that you could get Jagger shots for only a dollar. After having a few shots we started to realize that there were an awful lot of old women and awful lot of young men making out all over the place. We had found ourselves a cougar bar... we didn't quite fit in.

The next day we went to a little community called Christiania. It was this really cool town considered to be separate from denmark totally. This community is separate from the rest of the city and has its own economic system and self-governance. It is known as the place where all the people go who don't fit in. It is also a place where the smoking and selling of soft-drugs is legal.. or at least ignored for the moment. The city has been around for over 50 years and managed to not get shut down. They have strict policies which keep it relatively clean like if you start doing hard drugs you are told to get dry to get out. And if it looks like you are becoming too addicted you can also get kicked out. They also have their own policing. It is know as an experimental town. The notion is that if you shut it down the drugs will just continue to spread around all of copenhagen, keeping this freetown open keeps the drugs in one place. Check it out at www.christiania.org

That night we went out again, starting at Heidi's to take advantage of the cheap jagger then moved to a Danish karaoke bar. All night we spent singing both the english and attempting the Danish karaoke. Em had mastered the Danish.

The next day we took a boat tour through the canals and saw the mermaid. This really small statue that Copenhagen is known for. It was donated by the guy who owns the Carlesberg beer company. He feel in love with a ballerina dancer and wanted a statue of her, but she would pose for him because she thought he just wanted to see her naked. So the man got his wife to pose and took the face of the ballerina. Kind of a crappy story for something that is on the front of every post card in Copenhagen.

Definitely not an uneventful weekend in Copenhagen!