Fun day of Shopping

Hi everyone,

This blog might make it sound like we took a day off. And I guess in all honesty, most of us did. Of course we did some work at the Bella Centre, had a productive meeting, did some Day 6 video introductions, and what not, but for the most part we decided to finally take a day for ourselves. Not everyone did this by the way. There are a few, including Liz, who worked all day.

At about noon, Ryan, Antoine, Marielle and I went down town Copenhagen to find a nice cafe for brunch. We ate at Kaffesalonen, which I think means Coffee House. It was great! We walked around for a bit down town until we had to get back for our meeting. On our way we heard that there were protests going on outside of the Bella Centre, and that we might have a hard time getting in. We finally got there, and found no protests going on near the entrance that we usually used. There were no security issues at all. It wasn`t until we left that we saw the huge crowd protesting right outside. It was unreal! I wish I had pictures to share, but I`m sure they would be easy to find on the Internet.

Mike and I went shopping down town after the meeting. We reached the walking streets at 5pm, and yet most stores were already closed, and it was completely dark out. This, of course, did not stop us from hunting down some open stores and buying some souvenirs :) Being down town is really amazing! The lights, the people, the lack of cars. A great place to just walk around for hours, which is exactly what we did.

When we returned to our apartment, Chris, our landlord, made a very Danish Christmas drink for us, called.. well I don't remember what it was called. But it was really good! He was telling us about the charity that he runs called ACHELP. This charity looks at helping people with AIDS. Truly amazing work. He also explained to me some of the Danish cuisine, which consists mainly of potatoes from the sounds of it :) I love it here!

Tomorrow we are off to Sweden for the day!

Until next time! :)