spontaneous

There is nothing more abroad like, then booking a trip a week in advance and book your place to live 3 days before you leave and then creating a schedule the night before and doing laundry and packing at 10PM at night when you have to wake up at 7AM.
That was my trip to Copenhagen, Denmark.

April 13th, 2014
8AM and ready to head on over to Sweden's downstairs neighbor, we were packed lightly and ready to have a girl's weekend in the happiest city in the world.
When we arrived in Copenhagen, we hopped on the metro then the bus to our apartment. Renting it through Air B&B, it was a simple, white Scandinavian apartment with one little flaw.
The bathroom.

That was it. It's not the angle of the camera or the lighting. 

The bathroom was THAT small.

I walked in and my knees hit the toilet and then I would stick my arm out and my arm would be in the shower and if I bent over a little, there was the sink.

None of us could even close the door because our knees were touching it and when we had to close the door we had to sit sideways on the toilet, which is the weirdest feeling.

Me in the bathroom where I could stand, which was in the shower and a little bit over the toilet.

4 girls had to use this bathroom and only 1 showered in it, so if you do the math right 3 of us didn't shower for 2 days. Thank sweet little baby Jesus that we are all close and hang out with each other every day to not care that none of us had showered or washed our hair. 

#truefriendship

After shaking our heads over the bathroom and using it, we headed off to find a place to eat because we were starving. 

Danish brunch consisting of (from left to right): homemade jam, yogurt with granola and blueberries, honey, passion fruit, gouda cheese, vanilla pancakes, sausage, ham, butter, bread and scrambled eggs.

Danish brunch did me good, because I ate all of it and all of it was delicious.

After filling our stomachs we walked around Copenhagen and did our first tourist stop to saw hello to a Disney friend. 

 Park in Copenhagen

Future note: Statues in Copenhagen are creepy. The majority of the are this teal color from oxidization (like the Statue of Liberty) but their eyes remained black which creeped us out.

Also, there were a lot of birds in Copenhagen which was a surprise and a disgust to me, since I dislike birds with a passion, a very strong passion.

This is the famous Little Mermaid statue that is the most touristy in Copenhagen. Inspired by the fairy tale written by Danish born author Hans Christian Anderson, this statue was built by the son of the founder of Carlsberg beer (a Danish beer) in 1913. Little did he and Anderson know that this bronze statue that stands at 4 feet tall and weights 300 lbs would be the most vandalized object in Copenhagen. According to the Wikipedia articles pictured below, this statue has been decapitated twice, blown up and has had paint thrown on it. 

Who would have thought that a mermaid, popularly known as a Disney character, would be defaced, decapitated and de-liked in the city of Copenhagen, let alone the happiest country in the world.

I guess some people are just not that happy in Denmark.

 Luckily, as you can see, nothing was wrong with The Little Mermaid when we saw it. Once we were done taking pictures we walked around some more and got some dessert and dinner, respectively.

These are Danish cake balls. Similar to the Swedish chocolate balls/ American cake pop, but with rum.

Here at this little bakery shop I learned one thing, that I would soon learn again from my Swedish corridor mate. Danish and Swedish people do not like each other. I'm not sure what the exact reason is, but my guess is is that it goes back to the Viking times and then Danes and Swedes held a grudge from there. Also Norwegians and Swedes don't like each other either for some odd reason and Finland is off in Finland. To sum it up, Scandinavian countries have held a grudge for over 400 years and dislike each other. And I thought these people were peaceful.

Across the way from the bakery (yes we had dessert before dinner, because our mothers weren't there to tell us we couldn't #rebels) was a sushi place and not having sushi for months we settled in. Also, this is the place where I officially learned how to hold and use chopsticks.
Fun Fact about the author: I have eaten sushi and Chinese food for many years and for those years, I've used my hands and/or a fork looking like a complete tourist. No matter how many people tried to teach me, my sausage fingers could not do it, until Copenhagen.
I would just like to give a big thank you shout out to Madeleine for officially teaching me, it was a big moment in my life.

Like old grandmas, we headed home around 9:30PM and created our schedule for the next day.