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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Ate a croissant from a bakery our hotel dude suggested. + Tried to take walking tour, missed it. It cost too much anyway + Tried to eat at a smorresbord (a Scandinavian sandwich) but the place was too expensive for 2/3 of a sandwich. + Tried to visit Tivoli, their old amusement park, but it was not opening for another two days. + Grabbed some food and ate it while waiting for a canal tour. + Canal tour with a bunch of loud High schoolers + National Museum which holds a lot of old Scandinavian artifacts. + Tried to find a windmill, but failed. (apparently they took the wings off this one so it just looked like a house…) + Went to train station to get cash from money exchange. They don’t all ow you to buy money so we use an ATM. Amy’s ATM card is eaten by the hungry machine. We use jajah to call Bank of America. Amy went crazy talking to the computer and failed three time to get a human on the phone. Brian helped her out. Hint: if you want a human operator just claim your card was stolen. + Went into a “cheap” hotel Chinese restaurant. It was pretty pricey ($15 per person) + Amy makes a friend with the Cantonese Waitress (she’s been in Copenhagen for 15 years and thinks that it’s pretty boring there, not much Chinese population. The cook’s mom is from the Toy San area! They took over the restaurant, which has been around for 50 some odd years. Amy is in awe that she spoke English, Danish, Cantonese, probably Mandarin as well) + Regretting how much Copenhagen is costing we leave the restaurant, when Amy finds 500 kroners on the ground. +

Terminology:
Kroner – and expletive used for when something goes wrong or is really expensive. Amy and I made this one up.