Peace, Love, and Lutefisk: Adventures i Norge

Oh, the fun never stops here on continental Europe. Today was another travel day as we headed from Berlin to Copenhagen. We were so thankful to have the tickets in the first place. Unlike the rest of our travels when we planned everything well in advanced, we decided to leave the transportation from Berlin to Copenhagen for the last minute. We didn´t know how long we would want to be in Berlin or if our housing Copenhagen would work out, so we left it up in the air. Once we started looking however it was like, duh, it is almost Easter so everyone was traveling.

We went to the bus station yesterday and got the last two seats on the 9.30 am bus going from Berlin to Copenhagen. And we barely made it. The trip from where we were living to the bus station had every snag imaginable. First we did not have enough money for the bus card, then when we did it was too large of bill and since everything was closed since it was Good Friday, we had to ask people to change it for us. Finally, after sprinting about 400 meters from the metro to the bus station, the bus driver said the bus was full, leaving Elisa and I as well as two other girls standing outside. We tried to argue, but he said he only had one seat. When he went to put some luggage under the bus I went on and told Elisa to sit in the open chair while I went to the second floor of the double decker bus to try to find somewhere. Fortunately, there actually was an open seat...unfortunately however, it was in between a group of 20 kids on a Danish swimming team.

They were maybe 12 years old and very hyper with little supervision, so they had a great time crawling around and enjoying the ride. The highlight of sitting in the midst of this madness (along with all my luggage) were the songs. I think they sang "Wouldn`t that be Sweet" by Gwen Stefani maybe 13 times, always shouting out the `woo hoo, woo hoo´probably because they didn´t understand the English. Other fun tunes included the Gummy Bears cartoon theme song, in Danish of course, as well as...Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Yes, `give me your colored coat´ Benjamin`s song and much more were being belted out by all the young swimmers, in Danish yet again. Who knew that Randy Grimsely could speak Danish? Oh no, not me. (or should I say, oh nei, ikke ham).

But despite all these adventures, Elisa and I have made it to our last destination in Copenhagen. We have a very nice host who picked us up at the bus station and we even have a bed at this stay! We will explore the city (and play ultimate!) until tuesday morning when we head back to the North Pole.

I wish everyone a Happy Easter! It`s my favorite holiday and always sad not to celebrate with family, but know I am thinking about you while checking out the Little Mermaid.

Red, and yellow and green and gold and blue.