Copenhagen- Round Två!

Hejhej!
So school has been taking over my life the past few weeks... but I did manage to take a weekend vacation back to Copenhagen for Halloween weekend! After the first time in Copenhagen, I liked the city. But after this trip, I love it! Probably my new favorite city. On Friday afternoon, two American friends, Jen and Allie, and myself took the train to Copenhagen. Jen's dad works for a Marriott hotel, so he managed to get us a really good discount on a hotel room for the weekend. It was reaallllly nice not having to stay in a hostel the whole weekend! On Friday, we checked into our hotel and decided to climb Vor Frelser Kirke, meaning "Our Saviour’s Church." It's an extremely tall and cool looking church with spiral steps along the outside that go all the way to the top. We started climbing it inside at the bottom of the church. We worked our way up what felt like a MILLION steps. The church was built in the 1600's so the staircases we walked up were extremely tight, chilly, dark, and a bit scary. The steps were so incredibly small and the staircases were so steep I had to walk up them sideways- and on the way down I was trying really really really hard not to fall. When we finally got to the top there was a little door that led to the outside spiral steps. The view was INCREDIBLE. I could literally see all the way to Sweden. I could see the Baltic and the Öresund Bridge that connects Denmark with Sweden, the entire city of Copenhagen, the windmills in the sea, and all the way past the city into the Danish countryside. We walked up the spiral stairs on the roof of the church all the way to the very top. The experience was absolutely amazing- it was a little nerve racking though, climbing up 400 year old stairs on the outside of a very tall building with nothing but one little railing for safety. The pictures that I took are great, but they really don't do it justice. I've attached some video I took at the top as well. Climbing back down all those tiny steep stairs is NOT easy after climbing up all of them and then being really nervous outside. My legs were shaking on the way down- mostly because I think I was scared I was going to wipe out down the steps. We all got down safely, thank goodness.
After climbing the church, we walked to a Danish bakery and had ordered a strawberry tart to split between the three of us. Strawberry tart=most amazing desert I've ever tasted. I posted a picture of it on here! I wasn't going to mention it, but it was seriously one of the highlights of that day. After walking around the city all day, we were exhausted and made it back to the hotel for dinner and sleep.
Saturday was Halloween, and Sensation White. Sensation White is a giant music festival that's held in different cities throughout the world, specifically in Europe and Australia. It was at the Copenhagen stadium, which holds 30,000 people. Everyone that attends wears all white. If you don't wear all white, you can't get in. From 7pm until 3am some of the best DJs in the world play their music. There was a giant rotating stage in the middle of the stadium where the DJ stood. The theme for this year's Sensation White was "Wicked Wonderland." There was an Alice in Wonderland theme throughout the whole show. I'm posting separate pictures and video from this because there's way too much to show. It was such an amazing show and made for a really good Halloween.
Sunday we met a friend of ours that goes to school with us in Sweden. He's actually from Denmark and grew up in Copenhagen so he knows all the good places to go. We all had coffee at an awesome little cake house downtown and then got on the train to go back to Sweden. WONDERFUL weekend! To top it all off, when we were checking out of the hotel, the Danish guy at the counter asked where I was from. I said Minneapolis (not thinking he would know where Lakeville was.) Then he says to me, "No way! Are you familiar with Burnsville, Minnesota?" CRAZY. Turns out he has cousins in Burnsville and he spent a year with them- and even played tennis at the Lakeville High School courts! Small small world.
Sorry, I know this was a long one! But hopefully you got a good idea of what the weekend was like. :)
Next weekend I'll be in Göteborg, Sweden, so I'll post again then.
Hope all is well!
Hej då!
-Sara