The End of Europe

The party continues!
The last couple days in Copenhagen have been awesome! It has been cold weather but the sun has been out most of the time to allow me to enjoy my second visit to this beautiful city. Me and Jens came to CPH at 1 on Thursday and were met with a rather violent running and jumping hug from Marie, my good friend from New Zealand. So good to see her! And the excitement for China increased even more

We went to Kristopher's house for lunch then set off in his volvo to look around a bit. We went to DTU (Danish Technical University) where Marie and Kris are both studying engineering. Marie was supposed to be there in class, so she tried to keep a low profile while showing us all the highlights. Her semester was to end the next day and she had a big project due but she just assured us she's stay up late and get it done later, so no stresssss! Then we drove out of the city a bit to go to a Castle that had a very rich history (built in the 16th century by the King for the summer home, then destroyed by fire and rebuilt). To Marie's dismay it was closed when we arrived.... But we didn't mind, just took some pictures of the outside and walked around the gardens all four of us holding hands - it was nice!

We went back to the city and got ready for our dinner with Li Suo - the man who takes me and marie to China!!! He moved to Denmark 8 years ago for school, just by himself - leaving his family back in China. He and Marie met while working together at Burger King, back in the day! Today Li is a successful buisness man, owns a beautiful apartment in downtown CPH and treated us to an awesome sushi dinner. The first part of our trip - before we meet Eva in Shanghai has been totally unplanned by either me or Marie. I think we were both waiting for the other to set some sort of itinerary but that didn't happen..... Until Li entered the picture! He has a grand plan of showing us Beijing and surrounding area while we stay 4 days with his sister in the city. Then he sends us off on the night train to Xi-an where we will stay 2 nights and visit a local friend of his. Then he has booked our flights to Shanghai where Eva will take over. This is travelling people!! Awesome that he does this for us! So anyway he is super nice and we made a plan that he is going to wait for me in the baggage area in Beijing as his flight arrives 20 mins before mine.

Had a little car trouble on the way home...... Kris left us downtown to go party and we took his car home - Some crazy feature of his volvo - you can't turn off the car if the signal light is still on or the lights go crazy, even when you take the key out. So we disconnected the battery and decided to let it rest overnight and keep our fingers crossed that it would work in the morning (it didn't).

Marie had to go to school to finish her semester the next day so she set me and Jens up with some maps and off we went around the city (bus and train), making a few wrong turns here and there but for the most part navigating this foreign place really well! Public transport is awesome in Denmark! I can't understand any of their crazy words but we managed to find everything we wanted. We met our friend Sabina in the centre and walked around with her, catching up on all the news since I saw her last time.

This night Marie had planned a party to celebrate end of semester, going to China, me visiting etc! so as soon as she got home we went grocery shopping (on the bus!) and starting making some food. Our friend Jeppe and Mari came to join us with Sabina and a few of Marie's other friends came along as well, it was fun!! Had a party and danced our faces off

Today was an easy day of just sleeping in then going skating downtown. Now I am at Sabina's house watching the game! (the game is handball! Denmark vs Poland - interesting....) and they will take me to the airport tomorrow morning for a long flight to Beijing! I am so tired I am looking forward to this flight!

Later!