Day 28 – Train to Copenhagen – Wednesday June 20th

We did not have to leave until about 10am, so I finally got to sleep in a little bit. We headed for the train station, which for some reason was only reachable by a half hour walk and a ride on the S-bahn. I got Dunkin Donuts and some magazines to hold me over on the train ride. We made it near the German border and switched to a train that literally boarded a ship to cross the Baltic Sea. For those of us that fell asleep and had no forewarning, it was a little strange to wake up with the lights off on a train with no one in it slowly rocking. I ate in the cafeteria they had and went to the top deck where you could see the Denmark coast.

We had two more hours of train riding when we made it into Denmark. When we arrived around 6:30, Chris, two other guys, and I ate at what appeared to be a local family restaurant similar to a Longhorn. The food was not too great and very expensive due to Copenhagen’s high socialist prices, so I didn’t get too much bang for my buck.

Afterwards, we headed back to the hotel and enjoyed a number of the five pools they had to offer. Sam, Drew, Rob, Nick, and some of the girls met us down there, and we all swam for an hour or two. We relaxed in the sauna and went to our rooms. Most everyone in the room stayed in and watched a movie, so it was a relaxing evening. I had to read some articles for Dr. Turkett’s class. As a result, I also need to include two pictures in this blog. The picture, taken in Florence, had been compressed into a .jpg file with a 20% quality factor. Can you tell the difference between the two? One is actually a much smaller file.