Sweden and Denmark!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Copenhagen had Mountain Dew at the 7/11)

Well I have so much to say I dont know where to begin...... Sweden and Denmark were awesome. The most exciting thing about the weekend was I found my personal Holy Grail, Mountain Dew in Europe. I know that is a very small thing to be so excited about but I was think I had to go 6 months without it and when I found it I got really excited.
While we were in Sweden we did a lot of site seeing. The Hostel we stayed in was a boat and we had some nice fews of the river in which Stockholm was built around. One of the things I didn't realize until we got there is Stockholm was a city of islands. I believe there are around 40 different islands in the city of Stockholm.
We started the day off by getting onto a 'Hop on and hop off bus'. We took the bus all around the city listening to the audio tour and figuring out where we wanted to go. Once we got around we decided to get of and go to the Vasa Museum which had a boat that was built and sunk in the 1600s. It was made of wood and when they finished making it they found out they didn't build it right. Once it hit rough seas it capsized and sunk. It wasn't until the 1960s that it was discovered and salvaged. It was under water for so long that they have to regulate the temperature and humidity inside the museum so the boat doesn't fall apart.
That was really interesting and if you want to see more pictures of the boat you can go to http://picasaweb.google.com/drewmclean2486/SwedenAndDenmark#. That is also where all of out pictures from this trip are.
We also went to the Scandinavian Zoo that is in Stockholm. The zoo had animals that all were found somewhere in Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark). There were Grey Wolfs, Grey Seals, Elk (known to us as Moose), Grizzlies, Otters, and many other little animals. My favorite was the cute little otters because when we got to there area the two of them were showing off for the crowd and squirming around on their back. I really wish we would have gone to the zoo in the summer bacause when we were there all of the Grizzlies were hibernating.
That night we went to Fridays for dinner and got yelled at by the waitress. Aparently if you were going to only order appetizers you had to sit in the bar area. We told the hostess that we were only going to order apps and she sat us in that section. The waitress told us about the rule and said "just so you know for the next time". Kels and I looked at eachother and laughed. "The next time", if we ever make it back there I think the least of our worries will be where to sit in Fridays.
That night we took a night train to Copenhagen, Denmark. That was another interesting night of sleep. First we slept on a boat now we were sleeping in a sleeper car on a train. That sounds a lot better then it actuall was. Kels and I had the top bunks of a room that was about the size of a closest and had two sets of three layer bunk beds. Inbetween the bunk beds there was about 2 feet of walking space and a tiny ladder to get up to the top on. Between the top bunk and the ceiling there was about 3 feet above the top of the bed.

Once we made it to Copenhagen at 8 am Sunday morning we had to go into the 7/11 to ask the cashier how to call numbers here in Denmark. We had gotten Thomas' (the guy we couch surfed with) phone number and neither Kels nor I could figure out how to call him to let him know we made it. Once we got a hold of him he came and met us in a square outside his house. The first thing he said when we met him was he had 3 czech girls at his place getting ready. He had them couch surfing the night before and it sounds like they partied hard because Thomas told us on the way to his house he was still stoned. Which I dont know if thats what he ment literally or if that is just an expression for people in Denmark to say they are still drunk. Anyway, we got to his place dropped his stuff of and headed of into a full day of walking. Being Sunday a lot of the museums and stuff were closed so we just walked around the city.
We walked into this area called Christiana and it was the creepiest place I had ever been. We felt like we were in the movie Hostel. Kels will write more about the history of Christiana and what it reall was, in the next blog.
After a full day of walking and seeing the Little Mermaid sculpture we went back to Thomas' flat and hung out watching tv, eating pizza, and drinking beer for the rest of the night. We got up in the morning and caught the first train to Billund , which was where our flight departed from, and we saw the first ever LegoLand. Now when you look at the pictures keep in mind we were on a moving bus and it was hard to get good pictures while moving.
The last thing I would like to point out is inside the Billund Airport they had these booths inwhich you could smoke in and it would ventilate outside. It was pretty cool. I've never seen anything like it.
Well that was our weekend in a bottle and I hope you will go chech out our pictures on picsaweb and also I hope all is well back home.

We Miss You All

Kels and Drew