Kulturnatten!

Friday night was Culture Night here in Copenhagen! Basically you pay 90kr to get into all of these cool things around the city. All of the major buildings were open for tours, businesses had events and there were cool booths and things happening everywhere. So many people were out and about it was amazing. Definitely the most alive I've seen the city at night - especially since most places close at 6 on a normal night. Because we live in such a great area, the majority of our time was spent walking around, collecting free samples and going into great buildings.

Inside City Hall

DIS had an event in our courtyard. Halloween isn't celebrated here so they did a halloween themed event with pumpkin carving and a haunted house. And of course they sold "American candy" and had a Smores-making stand. (Though without the graham crackers cause they don't exist here)

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To the left is the Danish design center and to the right is the view of Tivoli from the Roof!

Pretty library right by my house. I got kicked out of there a few weeks ago when I tried to study. But it's culture night. No one can kick me out now! Ha!

And ended my night with the Botanical Gardens which were all lit up. Inside the central palm house there was a band and it was all nice and warm so that's always a plus.

We saw some really cool things. Lots of light shows and weird street performances and some creepy mimes. This post, however, would be incomplete without mentioning the star of the show: Norway. Let's all take a moment to applaud Norway for a great set of booths, free CDs (I'm listening to some Norwegian classical music right now), some delicious fruit and ginger drinks, cheese samples, salmon samples and cake samples. They had a Norwegian band and even a mini ski slope. A friend and I are now trying to find a time to go to Oslo for a weekend. Job well done Norway.