June 13, 2012

The day before yesterday, we left Rödinghausen on a local train to bielefeld. From there we took another train to Klön, and from there, we took an amazing train (streamlined electric) to Paris (yes, Paris). Yesterday, we were going to see the Eiffel tower, but Tobin was too tired, so we explored the park near our apartment. It's a huge area with hills and cliffs and stuff, but it's all artificial. It's kind of weird being in there, because you know it's all fake, but it's really pretty. There was even an artificial cavern with a waterfall.
Today, we're actually going to see the Eiffel tower, and I'll put photos of that on tomorrow's post.
So, that's about it.

June 9, 2012

I guess I haven't posted in awhile, so I'll have to reduce detail a little.
Yesterday, we went on a hike with alpacas and llamas up into the forest around the valley that we're living in right now(Rödinghausen) is in. After the llama hike, we went to a tiny burger joint called Joe's.

Today we went to see Limburg castle ruins, but, since it's in the forest, we couldn't find it and we ended up having to ask some joggers where it was, and the directions proved correct! So we saw the castle and it was pretty cool. So after that, we came home and ate dinner and now I'm typing these words.
I will get photos for the next blog posts I do, and I'm very sorry about the lack:-(
So, that's about it.

:-)

June 6, 2012

Three days before yesterday, we went on a walk with another relative of ours, and took a water bus to a certain part of Copenhagen to see a bunch of large sand sculptures. They were very cool, and there was even a small area for build-your-own! So, we hung around there for a bit, and then we were going to go find somewhere to eat, but some of us were really done so we headed back.
Two days before yesterday, we went over to another relatives house for dinner and the food was good(even though I don't remember what it was), and after dinner we hung out there for quite a while.
One day before yesterday, we did absolutely nothing important except going to the grocery store.
Yesterday, we went to Hillerød to(once again) have dinner at a relatives house.
Today, we have left Copenhagen, passed through Hamburg, and are now on a train to Hanover.
That's about all I have to say for this post.

June 1, 2012

Alright, so yesterday we took the metro and then the train to the frilands museet, which is an open-air museum that has stuff like old thatched buildings and old windmills and stuff like that. We stayed there for a while, but then we were supposed to be at a relative's house for dinner so we took a train that looked a lot like a bus to their apartment. The food was really good, and the cake was AWESOME.
It had this really fudgey inside, but the edges were like normal chocolate cake.
After that, we took the normal train home, and that's about it.

May 30, 2012

The day before yesterday we didn't do much. We did nothing all morning, and then three of us went to the Copenhagen nature center, and the other two (including Eva and myself) stayed. A few hours afterward, Jeffrey and I took the metro to the grocery store.
So ya, that's about it for what we did yesterday. Yesterday, we went to rosenbourg castle. It is AWESOME! Inside, everything is so rich that once you're through 1 floor you're like "oh ya, big crystal chandelier, big deal".
The reason I only have one photo is because the outside is kinda boring, and the inside you need to pay for photo permission, and we only got that for one person.
Today we are doing this awesome Viking museum thing in Roskilde, and we just looked through the main hall. So ya. BTW, the day before yesterday, a whole bunch of people came riding up the ramp of our apartment building on i2 segways. That was weird.
That's about it.

May 28, 2012

Yesterday, we did two things:
We visited the round tower, and we saw pistolstræde
The round tower is a tower that's connected to another building, and the tower has a spiral ramp going up inside it.
The rooms of the building it was connected to were accessible via the tower and there were three I think:
The church took up the bottom half of the building, and above it was the library hall, and above that was the bell loft. At the top of the tower was the observatory, with a wide walkway around it.

Pistolstræde was disappointing. It was supposed to be a short street restored to how it was two hundred years ago. What we found however was a narrow pedestrian street with modern stores selling designer brands and stuff like that. It was so disappointing, I didn't take any photos.
But, pictures of the round tower are below, and they are interesting.
After that stuff, on the way back, we walked by a shop with an interesting display in the window:-)

PS: I got photos of the metro.

May 27, 2012

Yesterday, we went to the beach, and dug and built with sand. We didn't actually do much at all at the beach, just basically dug a hole each and built a wall each. The sand was really cool, first it was beige, but it went black really fast as you got farther down. The reason I don't have photos is that iPods don't like sand.
Did I mention Copenhagen's metro yet? It's awesome. The trains are white, and have three cars, each connected without a door separating them, so it's like a long hallway. I promise to get photos of the metro, so ya. That's about all.