Mom by an adorable old cafe on Ile de Saint Louis. Established 1567, no big deal...
Notre Dame!
MORE Notre Dame! No but sreiously you could spend a whole day looking at Norte Dame from 100 different angles and still not be done with it. 
Partying it up back at the hojskole, note how we all have spring break tans, the danes were jealous ;)
THE QUEEN!!! I know you can't see her, her husband is in the way, but it was her 70th birthday on April 16th and the Danes were thrilled. 
Afterwards me and Erica went to build a bear and decided to make minitures of our favorite queen's guards (Niels was on guard at the Royal Palace being VERY serious when I saw him earlier that day, it was kind of hilarious).
The Americans decided to teach the Danes a thing or two about how we drink in the States. This is Jacob, the Hojskole Principal learning how to play flip cup with us at the Alumni Party on Saturday. We tought a good 30 people how to play over the course of the night. They thought it was lots of fun, but were suprised by our playful competitiveness. Trash talking isn't really something they do here, and I think it seemed a little mean hearted to them when we would rip on eachother. which to us is half the fun. Just one of those cultural barrier type things, but no big deal :)
TIVOLI GUARDS. God these little boys were so cute. 
At Tivoli they have this Hans Christian Andersen ride, which is where Walt Disney got the idea for "Its a Small World." Its a small world is undeniably eerie, but this was even creepier because a) there were sections that were meant to be scary and were and b) there was no music, only a danish storyteller in the background, so you could here all the gears in the little mechanical people turning
But mostly Tivoli was just awesome!!!
Out clubbing the first night we were in town... I guess I didn't get the memo about making a quiet face... oh well.
My lovely ladies on our last night all together. Kirsten had to leave early because her visiting sister was getting confirmed, which is a big deal in Denmark despite the fact that they are almost 100% atheist.
Sagrada Familia, a really impressive cathedral size church designed by Antonio Gaudi, an extremely famous Catalan architect. 
Me and Jess at the top of Park Guell. If you're ever in Barcelona I reccomend it, its not as crowded as the rest of the city and the views are fantastic. 
Our second night out we stumbled upon this band giving a free concert in an old converted church yard. Lots of fantastic salsa dancing, my uncoordinated American self didn't have any idea what to do, but it was still fun. I had a cute old spanish man try to teach me the gist of it. 
Picnic lunch on the beach :)
Us in front of the Grand Casino. You had to be 21 to go in, and also had to not look like a bum so no gambling for me!
Me and Jess!!!
So we kind of failed in our plan to get to Milan. The orginal plan was to leave Venice in the morning, stop in Verona for lunch, and then get to Milan with plent of time to spare to meet up with Kirsten when her flight got in at 5 and then spend the whole night celebrating her 21st birthday and just sleep it off on our 6:15 train. The only problem was, no one told us that there were two "Verona" stations, so we got off here:
which is essentially the boondocks di italia. AND we forgot its Easter monday, which meant that the Italians were taking the day off from their work driven lives (ha) and absolutely EVERYTHING was closed. Like, gas stations included. So we were stranded, and didn't end up getting anything to eat besides communion until we reached Milan at 6:30. But at least it was a nice day, and the people who lived there were very happy to see visitors since aparently no one goes to faux Verona, and we got a few marriage proposals which was sweet, I guess.
Finally all 5 of us made it to Milan! Which in actuality is not that exciting of a city but the Duomo is truly gorgeous. If I were planing a trip I would stop here for a few hours during the day, see the church and then move on, other than this and a castle there's not much to see. 
Yes, they are that cute, I wouldn't have thought it possible either but there you go.
The girls! Brief introduction to my travel companions, The one to the left of me is Chelsea M, I met her and Jess (far right) on my first night in Copenhagen in our hostel. All three of us decided to bite the bullet and be social even though we were all really jetlagged and we've been friends ever since. The girl in the middle to my right is Chelsea B, who I know through Chelsea M (yes it does get confusing), and me and her really hit it off on our trip. Kirsten joined us in Milan, but in Venice these were the girls!
Some random canal, the usual in Venice :) 
Venice is infamous for its medieval feel and its winding roads which are without a doubt adoreable but almost impossible to navigate. This is one of the rare occasions when we used a map in the city, most of the time we just resigned ourselves to getting lost and played stumble upon. It worked out really well :)
Last picture in Venice before we got on the train to Milan! One of the problems with the fast paced nature of our trip was that we didn't get that much time in each city but we got to see where we liked and where we didn't which will be good for future travelling.
Nicky at the Vasa Museum, a museum built around this old warship that sunk in Stockholms harbor like 400 years ago.
me acting a fool in another slightly less exciting museum. Yes I will revert to 7 years old if you put me in a boring museum... so will Nick tho. He's taking the picture. At least now we entertain ourselves.
Ice bar with the fam! Notice mom's drink is glowing... not really sure how that works out... the place was definitely for touristsbut sometimes you've got to do those little tourist trap things and going to a bar made completely of ice seems like a worthy time.
Me and Nick at Skansen, kind of like Stockholm's colonial williamsburg but founded as a living museum earlier and intentionally put together in a way that displays traditional life from all over Sweden. Definitely worth a visit if you ever find yourself in Stockholm. 
pretty cute folks huh?
One last family shot in Scandinavia! It was great having my family come see where I live and Stockholm was fantastic. Definitely reccomend it!
The next day mom and dad came back up to Hillerød and we went to the Palace that´s right by my house Fredriksborg Slot. This picture is evidence of one of the things we found out about Denmark during our stay here, the Danes don´t get the concept of taking pictures in front of monuments. They just dont get it. We have about 12 pictures of the 4 of us where we clearly asked someone else to take our picture and they framed us nicely but didnt try to get any of the background in. It happened so frequently it became a sort of on going joke.
One of the other important historical and cultural sites that I took them to was the Carlsburg brewery, which I reccomend to anyone planning a trip to Copenhagen. Nick was particularly pleased I think to make use of his new found freedom that comes with visiting Denmark and basically any other European country.
All in all I'd say we had a pretty fantastic time in Denmark together. Next stop is Stockholm with the fam and then off with friends!
