Day One - By Brian

Well, we are officially on the road. We started our journey in style at 7am on Dec 26th with a 9.5 hour (suppose to be 8 hour) bus ride to Chicago on the Megabus. As we waited for the bus with my parents, the first "ah hell" moment occurred to me when I realized I had let my brand new water bottle in my parents frig. Next up, being told by the bus driver we could only check 2 bags between us, we had 4. Thankfully the Megabus ticket lady was much nicer than the driver (who later attempted to depart our lunch stop in Madison withour at least 20% of the passengers). All the baggage made it.


We arrived in Chicago and were scooped up at the bus stop by Marisa's college roomate Daniela Bono. We enjoyed out last meal in the USA at Club Lucky before Daniela whisked us out to O'hare in the fog.


Unlike our bus trip, our flight to Copenhagen departed on time (10pm) and arrived early (1pm). Jill and Kevin met us at the airport and a 15 min train ride and 2 block walk later we were at thier apt. After a much needed shower, we headed out for a walk around the Stroget (the longest pedestrian mall in the world). We stopped at Tivoli to see the holiday extravaganza.

Tivoli is a huge family amusement park that stays open though the holidays; rides included. It's like a cuter version of Disneyworld with holiday lights, hot chocolate, roasted nuts, beer, glogg and "folks dressed up like eskimos".






Till next time...