Denmark Day Five

First thing Sunday morning, I got up and went for a walk/run. Mike had pointed out that Kastellet was shaped like a star, and well…IT NEEDED TO BE DONE!

After that, we showered and had some free hotel breakfast, then packed our bags and checked out. The hotel had a luggage room, and was nice enough to let us rent bikes for the day, so that’s what we did. We rode around pretty aimlessly – Copenhagen is amazingly set up for biking. I think I mentioned before that pretty much every road has a bike lane, and all of the drivers are super aware and super friendly to cyclists. It is pretty much the only time I’ve ridden on streets without being super nervous. The only problem I had was that the bike had back pedal brakes, and I appear to have a bad habit of backpedalling when I just want to coast, so I ended up accidentally stopping a few times. I actually managed to throw my hip out pretty badly by accidentally backpedalling. The good part of that was that it was still comfortable to sit and bike. Walking sucked though.

We managed to find Hans Christian Anderson’s grave. Lisa, lover of books, enjoys this.

Mike uses it as an excuse to rock out.

Then we went to the zoo. We tried to blend in with the monkey biography pictures. I am apparently a constipated monkey.

And Mike is a special-needs monkey.

We got bored of the zoo after a while, so we grabbed our last amazing Danish hot dogs, then went to check out Christiania. We don’t have any pictures from here because there are enormous signs that say NO PHOTO. Christiania…smells like Vancouver. I hope I’m not being too vague when I say that. It is very well known for smelling like Vancouver, but they are not fans of photographic evidence. We enjoyed a drink in Christiania, bought a super ugly sweater for me, and it was time to head back. We dropped off the bikes and grabbed our bags, then made it to the airport with plenty of time to wait in the long Easyjet line up. Only…there was no line up. We made it straight to the counter and checked in, then went through a security (Mike got extra screened for not having the sunscreen in a plastic bag). We sat around and enjoyed beers for a while. My back/hips were getting progressively worse by this point, so I tried to keep them loose with walking and leg swings and gentle stretching. I also took a painkiller, which I usually try to avoid.

The flight itself was pretty awful because of the backpain, but our luggage made it to the carousel quickly, and we had no problems with security. I ended up calling in sick on Monday and seeing a chiropractor. She popped my hip back into place. Since then, I’ve been in pain, but not as bad as before I saw her, and it’s been getting better and better all week. I hope to be able to be back to running again next week. Mike’s rash has all but vanished (thank god). We also came home to the news that my cousin/family friend/whatever Buddy and his girlfriend are coming to London and are going to stay with us for a few days, so hopefully we’ll get some interesting blog posts out of that. Viva la weekend!