Vi er Her!

It means, "We are here!" We got in yesterday at about 12:30 and managed to keep ourselves awake until 10. It seems that the more traveling we do the easier it becomes to push through that first day of jetlag to try to get our bodys adjusted to the time. I'm not saying by 10PM our brains were mush, but we managed.

Our flights were good. Our flight to Zurich was 10 hours and neither of us got much sleep, but managed to get a little. They served us breakfast RIGHT before we touched down so we shoveled it in our mouths and they came running back through the cabin to steal it all back from everyone...They told us they didn't realize how close they were to landing when they served it They stole everyone's coffee back too and pretty much, as soon as they did, we were on the ground. We slept the entire second flight from Zurich to Copenhagen.

We got to Copenhagen, got our stuff and made it to our hotel where we washed up and headed out for a walk down Stroget(Which if you don't remember, is a pedestrian shopping street and the longest one in the world at that) and found a new coffee shop that has potential to become a new favorite.

Doesn't the coffee just LOOK like it tastes better here?? Its because it does ;)
yummm Velvety Smooth Rich Coffee..

Then it was onward down Stroget to Nyhavn. Which was dead quiet, but just as lovely as I remember.

One of the little colorful buildings on Nyhavn

We went towards the outskirts to meet up with Klaus and to see his new flat. His flat is in a really great place and really cute at that. We ate, and headed back to Klaus's for some beer and ice cream and then came back here and crashed.

Our hotel is great. Actually a very popular hotel in Copenhagen. It is the Royal SAS Radisson. The entire hotel is so completely Scandinavian. Unlike the Hilton in Tokyo this one is FULL of Character. This hotel itself has always been proud of the fact that it was designed entirely by the well respected Danish architect, Arne Jacobsen. (He is the man who designed the egg chair) We have an AMAZING view and can see SO much from up here (we are on the 15th floor) I've seen Copenhagen a hundred times from the ground and being up here, and knowing what I'm looking at is really awesome. I would be ok, just sitting here and looking out for the rest of the trip because I've never seen Copenhagen from this perspective. I can even see Sweden from up here.

Our Room. The shapes on the wall are the room lights.

Comfy and VERY typical Danish Chairs

The bathroom, which has a heated floor which is also very common here

View from our window.
Today (which is much more clear then yesterday)I can see the sea, the bridge to Sweden, and the new fancy windmills The tall tower is Copenhagen's Town Square and the Park looking thing in the middle with the cool entrance is the amusement park called Tivoli that opened in the year... 1843!!!!!

View from our room at night. This is the Central Copenhagen Train station

So far my impression of being back in Denmark is strange. I don't feel like we are out of the country the slightest bit, which is peculiar, because we are quite far. Is it because this was home for so long, therefore taking away its "foreign-ness"? While things have changed here in the past 3 years (as things tend to do) it is still so incredibly familiar, even the people seem familiar. Part of me is starting to feel like we never left, another part of me feels like we have been gone forever.