Kultur Natten!

So Copenhagen has this night called Culture Night. It's difficult to explain, I don't think I can do it justice, but try to imagine a city-wide open house, and you'll be close to what this night is. All of Copenhagen becomes packed with people going to different stores marketing their products, showing how things are made, exploring parliament and the haunted vaults beneath, visiting the zoo at midnight, listening to singers and bands and choirs, looking at art, just anything you can think of. I think my night was one in a million. Here's my schedule:

About 6 I met up with my visiting mom Karin and her son Peter. She works at, well, I'm not sure of the exact title, but it's like the ministry of health or agriculture or something. She basically works for the government and tries to promote healthy living with different kinds of food ad recipes and whatnot. A pretty cool job, if you ask me. Anyway, they were putting on a huge display of floors and floors of different kinds of healthy food, which we explored. And since she worked there, we got right in instead of waiting in a long line! But the best part was "100 Stars of the Milky Way," a huge room full of 100 kinds of dairy, from cheeses to milks to freshly-made cappuccinos, to yogurt, to ice cream. Delicious! We all ate so much that we couldn't possibly fit dinner on top of all that food! And once again we got in right away and skipped at least an hour long line!

Then we walked for a bit and stopped at random little booths, tried some soups and whatnot, then headed over to one of the biggest churches in Copenhagen to hear the Copenhagen Boys' Choir. After pushing and shoving through the cold, drizzly city, can you imagine how amazing it was to sit in a warm, gorgeous church listening to an indescribably awesome choir??

Before meeting up wih my friends, we went to the school that Karin is on the board for. It's kindof like a home ec school, teaching people how to make homes, cook, handle money, you name it. So once again we ate more food and finished the night with some (ironically) American Pumpkin pie. No, it didn't taste like American pumpkin pie at all.

Then my friends and I explored a little more, walked down some main streets, made pancakes in the fire with small skillets, explored the gorgeous parliament building (we had to put on booties to walk around!), went to a candy store, ate hot dogs, and all around had a great night!

Now I know this isn't the most flattering picture of me, but the yumminess of the hotdog makes up for it!