Denmark Day 7

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Day 7 How are the Europeans so fit?? They eat a ton! Today we met with some of Dad's work associates who own a house a few towns over from Copenhagen. We got to ride the train!... I like trains. The view wasn't much, just a bleak country side with small towns dotted here and there, but I guess that is better than always seeing concrete. Weather plays a factor too, would be beautiful in the spring. We did have a bit of a scare at the train station however. We were supposed to meet up with an Argentine couple and go together to the house as guests...but we had no idea what the couple looked like! We ended up calling them on cellphones when they were like 10 feet away. Pretty funny. They were looking for an American couple with small children. So with that sorted out we were able to get on the correct train without a problem. We also met a small old man on the train who tried to teach mom the Danish pronounciations of the towns we were passing through. That was pretty funny. The language here has a few extra letters and some that aren't pronounced the same way. It is also, for the most part, not phoentic. Very guttural, who words having 6 or so letters tacked on the end with no vowels. Dad jokes that that is when you swallow, and the sound of the gulp is the sound of the last half of the words. hehe After exchanging pleasntries when we arrived we sat down to another multi course meal. It was soo much food! I did try the traditional Danish alcohol, akvavite. Delicious, similar to vodka but actually has a flavor! hehe. I plan on bringing back at least one bottle to share with friends. Through conversation we learned that the Danish do not have a word for please, which at first struck me as odd, but then made sense with my other observations of them in action. The trip and meal took all day, so not much else to talk about. Back to sightseeing tomorrow. Legoland is closed for the winter, opens in spring, makes me very sad.