Helsingborg and Helsingör, Malmö and Kara!

I don't really have time to blog right now, but I wanted to put just a few things in here to remind myself to finish it out later. On Friday, I studied and was generally boring. On Saturday, Eric and I took a train to Helsingborg, which is a medieval coastal city half an hour north or so. It's also only a twenty minute ferry ride to Helsingör, Denmark, which was the city of Elsinore in Shakespeare's Hamlet. We climbed up the castle/fortress in Helsingborg first...it was a long spiral staircase to the top, but worth it for the view. Then we bought a ticket for the ferry to Denmark. We ate a kebab on the main street, and walked around a little bit. The city of Helsingör is really nice, because most of the streets are pedestrian streets. It was very quaint. We walked around to Kronborg (Hamlet's Castle), which is just insanely beautiful and baroque. We bought tickets to be able to walk around the Royal Apartments (King & Queens quarters, banquet halls, and lots and lots of 16th century tapestries) and the Casemates, which was essentially the storerooms and dungeon. That was the coolest part, because it was kind of creepy too.

Eric also pointed out that you can rent the castle for events. So when I win the lottery and can afford to fly everyone to Denmark and pay for the castle, I'm so getting married there. The courtyard is just amazing, the perfect atmosphere for a party. It's hard to see in pictures, but I'll put some up soon.

We got back home at like 7:30 or 8 and went out to ög's with Andrew and Christian and Christian and Fabio. I didn't have too much fun, because well, a girl out with a bunch of guys just isn't as cool as a guy out with a bunch of girls. I went home shortly after midnight and woke up early to go meet Kara at Malmö C! I'll post on Malmö and Lund w/ Kara later. Today, I'm studying while she went to Copenhagen. I also have Swedish Film Class later, so I have to keep moving.

And I have the last-minute exam dread feeling about tomorrow...ughhghgh.