Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This morning we woke up, packed our bags, and said goodbye to all our new VT Grad student friends before heading off to the Vienna airport with Tess and Ian. We ended up taking the metro, which was slightly traumatic, but only slightly. Patrick, Allie Ross, and I caught our flight, and I’ll have to recomment Norwegian in the future because it was by far the smoothest flight we’ve had the whole trip. As we were landing in Denmark, you could look out the windows on the righthand side of the plane and see a long line of wind turbines extending out into the ocean. We were so excited to be there. We got our luggage and Andy Pittmann and Michele met us at the gate. There were hugs all around, and then we hopped on the metro. Danish trains are as clean if not cleaner than Swiss trains, we weren’t at all disappointed. Patrick headed to Andy’s dorm with him, and Allie Ross and I went with Michele to put our bags at hers and Chantal’s dorm. The building’s really nice– concrete with Salk windows done all in red wooden frames and a bar downstairs. Chantal was super happy to see us and gave us a quick tour of the dorm before continuing to work on her history paper. We hung out with Michele until Patrick, Andy, Bonny, and her friend Lisbeth joined us. I was beyond excited to see Bonny- I’m glad she made it to Copenhagen the same weekend as us. We ran by Jacob’s Bakery on the corner so everyone could pick up danishes and then went to the grocery store to get some drinks. The guys got some beer that has chickens on it (apparently the thing to do for Easter in Copenhagen is to brew special Easter beer) and the girls got Pear Sommersby (delicious, tastes like starburst kind of). For dinner we stopped at Smorbrod, which means butter bread, to get our first authentic danish meal. I got the one with shrimps on it, and it was really incredible, although I took as much of the mayo off of it as I could. By this point, Fleming and Jess came to join us, and we all sat and caught up. Eventually we headed out to partake in St. Patrick’s Day festivities and to meet Matt and Dan at a bar called Retro. All the Irish bars were very crowded, so Allie Ross, Chantal, and I ended up going to the Moose Bar with Matt, Dan, and their friend from Carnegie Melon. It was great getting to catch up with the guys– they seem to be really enjoying their semester, and I think they were just as glad to see us as we were them. Eventually we decided to turn in and took the metro back to Chantal’s dorm. Allie Ross and I are sleeping on her floor on sleeping bags she borrowed for us from Fleming and some of the Danish students.