We usually go into Copenhagen at least twice per week, once on Friday nights and for the day on Sunday, to attend church and to explore. So far we have been out two Fridays with some of Adam's work colleagues. His officemate is an amazing linguist who is originally from China and speaks Mandarin, Swedish, Danish, English, and French. Because he attended college in Copenhagen he knows his way around really well and he has taken us to his favorite bars on Fridays. Ironically, they
often have themes on Friday nights, and the first one we attended was a Texan theme- which included a very large American flag draped on the wall and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" playing on the stereo. Bummed we didn't have our camera with us for that night, but convinced that sort of thing only happens once, we went out the next week without our camera again to a different bar that was doing a Hawaii theme! For the Danes, the Hawaii theme meant leis and large blow-up alligators, which again was pretty funny to see. We're pretty bummed we didn't get to document either occurance, so now we don't leave home without our camera.In
Copenhagen we've found a church that we really like. It is an international Lutheran church conducted in English, with attendees from all over the world. Each time we've gone we've stayed late at their coffee hour hanging out with the great people there. And Adam likes his weekly opportunity for good drip coffee. And for Thanksgiving, we had four of the girls we've met over for turkey dinner. Two girls are American, one is British and one Hungarian. Mel cooked her first Thanksgiving, and we were able to make a turkey breast and some drumsticks (no whole turkeys), cranberry sauce from fresh 
berries, mashed potatoes, stuffing, lemon-butter green beans, and rolls. No pumpkin, canned or fresh, for pie, so we did a chocolate torte instead (no complaints here). It was so fun to get to share our traditions with some people who had never celebrated it before- the one from Britain said that what she knew about Thanksgiving was entirely based on watching the sitcom Friends from Britain, and that we did it pretty similarly to how they do it on the show!
From Copenhagen I've posted pictures of some of our favorite places. Nyhavn is the canal from which most of the boats leave. It is the old-fashioned sailors' quarters and has the bright building
fronts. In Denmark it used to be that you paid taxes based on how much street-front property you used, so the buildings are narrow and have no side yards. Some of the coolest parts of the old town are situated right on the former canals, that have now been reworked to be a network of lakes.
We also visited the old citadel which is a star-shaped piece of land islanded off by canals, and now has an old church and active walking trails. Christiana is a hippie colony with tons of artistic graffiti, and lastly you'll see this guy who was misbehaving and tried to hop stones over to the statue of the Little Mermaid to give her a little kiss and ended up falling in the water.
