Denmark

July 11, 2016
Today we woke up this morning at 3:15 to get ready for our flight. It's about a 45 minute drive to the airport from our apartment. I packed up my gear and picked up my sleeping brother, Zach, and got in our van. I took one long look at the beautiful scenery before we dropped off our van at the car rental, and made our way to our gate.

After an hour or so, we boarded the plane, the non fancy way, and said our final goodbyes to Iceland. I found my seat, got myself all situated, and as my dad said, “the lead singer of Metallica,” tells me that his seat is next to me. I'm in the aisle seat so I had to get up and ruin all my hard work. Sam was in the middle seat next to me and was going to be right next to this dude who didn't look friendly at all so Sam asked if I could switch him spots. It didn't matter anyway because after we took off, I put down the tray table and fell asleep and didn't wake up until after we landed.

We arrived in Denmark at around noon I believe. I woke up feeling like garbage as usual and got all my stuff and waited to get off the plane. After about 10-20 minutes, we exited the airplane and we got through the crowds of people from all parts of the world, we even met a lady from Ogden.

The airport was amazing, the structure of the building was a circular dome shape and was very cool with the dark clouds in the background. We planned out our route to go tour around Copenhagen to see the sights like the famous Hans Christian Andersen story “The Little Mermaid,” and the Kastellet Garden.

We made our way to some lockers to store our stuff for the day so we didn't have to lug it around. The lockers didn't take cards so we waited for a few minutes for my dad to pull out some coins to use. After he came back, we put our stuff in and shut the locker doors.

At the time, it was raining so we had all our rain jackets on, except for my dad. He took his off and stuffed it into his bag while on the airplane and forgot about it. So as soon as he locked the locker, he asked us if we got his rain jacket out, to which we all responded with no we didn't. Now mind you, it wasn't cheap to open up the locker, which made my father not very happy with his decision on shutting the doors. He just told us to help him out in the future and walked outside into the rain with a polo shirt and a hat. The day was starting off well.

We stopped off at a grocery store because we haven't eaten all day except for some granola and picked up these breads that were stuffed with pizza, some stroopwafels, which are basically sugar cookies, and some orange juice. We took our goods back outside and ate for a little bit. We didn't have any cups for the orange juice so my dad told us to drink straight from the carton. He then demonstrated how to do it by taking the orange juice, and accidentally spilling it down his shirt, the one that was already wet by the rain. We didn't know how to respond except with awkward laughter. We found some water bottles and poured the orange juice into the bottles instead, where I in turn, spilled it all over my hands.

After we finished eating, we continued on our way. Jacob was carrying the stroopwafels in his hand and was swinging them around in a full circle while he was walking. My dad told him repeatedly to stop doing that, but, like usual Jacob didn't listen. He spun them around one last time when the entire bottom of the bag ripped open and all of the cookies fell onto the soaked pavement. My brother uttered the words “oops” before my dad chewed him out for a little bit while me and my mom picked up the soaked stroopwafels. We still ate them of course but mine oddly tasted like a cigarette.


The rain let up and we continued on our way and stopped off at a cool canal with brightly colored houses lining the water. This is where I got my Instagram photo for the day. We sat by the water, and I waved to tourists while my dad took a nap and my brothers fed the ducks.

After a half hour later we were on our way again. We stopped off and saw a monument to “The Little Mermaid” that showed Ariel sitting on a rock. I almost bought a keychain of it in representation of Denmark but changed my mind when I realized she was nude. We reached the Kastellet Garden where we again stopped off and my dad and Elaina took a nap again for the second time today.

We fed the birds nearby and even tried to see if they would fly onto Elaina by putting bread on her head but it didn't happen.

After another hour of waiting for them to wake up, we left to go back to our apartment. We picked up our gear from the lockers and we got onto the train where I took an hour and a half nap before we had to get moving again.

My feet are getting pretty sore at this time but we had to walk another 2 miles to our apartment before we could get some rest. We stopped off at this restaurant where we had these things called kebabs which is like a burger but the meat is is shredded and it has lettuce tomatoes and a lot of ranch, stuffed into pita bread. They were incredible and would love to make it when I get home.

We stopped off at a grocery store as well and picked up some more food for tomorrow and finally made it to our apartment. It was nice to finally take a shower and to be able to wash our clothes after three days. It was tiring, but the sites and food made up for it.