sweden? check.

I love going out to eat. Unfortunately, in Copenhagen that happens very rarely due to exorbitant prices. BUT WAIT. The Keops family dinner crew decided that we would treat ourselves once a month while we are here to a nice dinner out. So we ventured out in the blizzard on Friday night for our January dinner. It was so nice to be able to go out and have someone else make my food and just be able to simply enjoy each other's company. We played my favorite "question game" to get to know each other a little better with my usual questions that I have taken from other people over the years.."if you could do one thing and not fail, what would it be?" and "if you could walk into a room full of people, what is one thing you could do better than everyone else?" (Thanks, Nico!). It is so fun getting to know a whole new group of people, and the more I find out about everyone, the more I love them! I am so blessed to be surrounded by such an awesome group of people here.


On Saturday, the girls and our new Aussie friend Tom decided to take the plunge and go to another country! We decided to go to Malmo, Sweden, which is actually only a 30 minute train ride from Copenhagen. It was a nice test-drive for future travel endeavors. We didn't really have a clue what we were going to do when we got there, so we basically winged it. Once we got off the train we just walked around and found the city square. I honestly thought Sweden would look really different than Denmark, but it actually didn't. Maybe that is just Malmo, though. We found a great spot for lunch in this tiny little cafe and enjoyed a healthy, hot lunch. After lunch we ventured out to find the spiral tower (not without stopping to make snow angels, of course), a really neat building in Malmo.







After getting on the wrong bus and just riding for a while, who knows why, we got off and found a cute little walkway. We ended up stumbling upon a boot shop, where 4 of us found boots we were looking for!! Mine were actually 70% off, so they were only 179 Swedish Kroner, equivalent to about $27 USD. BARGAIN!!

By this time we were all pretty cold/exhausted so we headed back to CPH to get ready for our kollegium's party. There ended up being TONS of people in our really small common room, but it was tons of fun. It was so nice to not have to wear 10 layers, get all bundled up, pay for coat check, pay for entrance, and then buy super expensive drinks. You really find out what to appreciate over here, haha! It was cool to meet some more people that live in Keops!

Today, I am off to complete yet ANOTHER scavenger hunt. This is my third of the program so far. At least I will know Copenhagen like the back of my hand. Pictures will be up soon :) xoxo kelli