vacation days 10-12

— date : august 28th, 2018, 11:45 PM
— song of the day : w.a.m.s. by fall out boy // my head’s in heaven, my soles are in hell
— currently looking forward to : my birthday !!!!!!

hey friends,

landed back home from copenhagen this evening… god i miss scandinavia so much :( im sure the post-vacation sadness is gonna hit me soon, i could already feel bits of it there when i was at the copenhagen airport.

denmark was amazing. to finally conclude my travel blogging for this summer here are the highlights of my time there!!

8/25: saturday

• landed in copenhagen about noon time!!
• went to my hotel. it was. so damn tiny. rip. also the wifi was wack.
• the past hotels at our other destinations were so much better than this one lol so in terms of hotels i guess the worst was saved for last >_>
• but at least it was still functional ??
• then we went outside. my fam and i went to nyhavn where all the colorful houses by the river were.
• seeing them as not just pictures on the internet but as something that Exists in Real Life felt a bit surreal. like a dream. a v beautiful dream. many MANY pictures were taken.
• i just explored the area around our hotel for a while… 
• ….. until it started raining. then we went back lmao
• by then it was like 7 in the evening so we just had a quick dinner (can’t remember what… think it was chinese takeout dksjdj) and went to bed.

8/26: sunday

• i saw the iconic little mermaid statue!!! i went pretty early in the morning (8 AM) to avoid the crowds.
• ofc there was still a lot of people when i got there (sigh) but i was still able to get some sweet pictures.
• (i keep mentioning me taking pictures but never including them in the post dksjdnld. i just don’t have the time to download my phone pictures to blogger :/ i swear i’m going to make that masterpost of all the pictures i took asap)
• my next stop was christiansborg palace. it was pretty gorgeous. i didn’t go inside ‘cause it was still closed at the time but i really wish i did ://
• i also saw the chapel which was equally gorgeous tbh!
• after that i went on a canal cruise tour around copenhagen. 
• it took forever to actually get in lol god. earlier i had purchased the copenhagen card that made public transportation as well as tours like this Free but when i tried to go on the boat it turns out you couldnt actually get in with just that !!! u have to get the (still free) physical tour ticket too. 
• which i had to join a veery long and slow line for. 
• i got a bit anxious waiting there, it felt like i was losing a ton of time having to stand in lines so much... idk :/
• by then the boat i first tried to join already left. so i waited like,,,,, 20 minutes for the next one.
• it was smooth sailing from there though ! i got to see a lot of cool things. 
• we even passed by the little mermaid again and it was SWARMING with even more people than before lol. i was lucky that i went there early.
• after the tour (+ having pasta for lunch) i went on a hop on hop off tour bus to actually see some of the places i saw on the cruise, like ameliaborg palace and frederik’s church. 
• then i visited tivoli gardens!!!! it’s basically an amusement park like gröna lund in stockholm. 
• i got there at the BEST TIME POSSIBLE omg. it was dog day !!!! almost everyone there brought their dogs with them. all kinds of breeds were there. it was dog heaven.
• i was so happy being in the presence of that many dogs :’’’) i wanted to take them all with me. it also made me miss my own dog,,, i left him with a friend of my mom’s.
• again, like at gröna lund, i didn’t go on any rides at tivoli bc i didnt want to pay for tickets lol.
• would have been nice to do so though. i almost did. 
• but i was just there to see what was inside,,,, and look at dogs lmao
• fINALLY i went up to this building called the round tower!! i climbed all the way to the top. on my way up there were a few exhibits i stopped by for, showing stuff like danish tapestries and medieval artifacts.
• the journey to the top was kinda arduous… the path was long and winding and steep. at the end there was this set of narrow spiraling stairs upstairs that was Hell to climb up bc people were also going down them,,, tight space. i almost fell out of panic.
• but the view was totally worth it.
• god what a long day. lol

8/27: monday

• the weather was absolute shiiiiit this day ughhh. 
• rainy and stormy. 
• couldn’t do much, even though we had a full day here.
• i went on the hop on hop off tour bus again but didnt get off at any stops, just looked at the view whizzing by while listening to the audio guide.
• after the tour i decided to go to fredriksborg castle.
• it was a loong way there, about a hour long trip from nyhavn. i took a train for about 10 stops then a bus for 3 stops
• when i actually got to the castle though it was So pretty wow
• it’s so detailed and elegant... a castle for sure
• so many rooms with so many paintings and heirlooms in each one,,, jesus
• it felt like it never ended, it was just That big. i think there were 70+ rooms in total. 
• i almost got lost there one time.
• my fam and i ended up spending way too much time there than we planned djjsbdksjs
• we were there for about 2 hours!!! but thats bc it was just So big!!! i think i visited a good 80% of the place lmfao
• after we realized this we quickly left and took the same train + bus route back where we came from.
• by this time it was like. 4 in the afternoon. and with the way the weather was acting, we didnt know where else on our agenda to go.
• so we headed back to our hotel.
• i was pretty bummed tbh.. 
• i wanted to sightsee as much as i did the day before but the weather made that pretty difficult :(
• at least i got to get more pictures of nyhavn today before i went to the airport.

and that finally leads me home. overall im just so so happy with how this vacation went. barely anything went wrong, i got to see some gorgeous sights and make some amazing memories. i think i’ve found a new happy place in copenhagen. i miss it so much, wish i could have seen more ;_;

will i ever be that happy again ?? more at 3.

god, it should be illegal to be so sad so close to ur birthday :/

oh yeah i forgot !!!! it’s my birthday tomorrow !!!!! i’m sixteen in less than a day ! lit ! im kinda scared tbh !!!!

my grandma’s here with us for it too. i have a lunch meetup with my friends that i hope goes well, and some picture portraits. i just hope i can manage to stay grounded. calm. relaxed. remember to do things.

i just don’t want to do anything i’ll regret later.

because lately i seem to do that all the time.

see y’all in my next post :-)

x ainsley