Day 3 - Copenhagen Take 2

I woke up a little later than I had planned, but still before we had planned to leave so I had some breakfast and then met up with the others. Matt knew of a bus stop that was little closer than the one Maggie and I had been dropped off at the first time so we took that bus all the way back to Norreport station. That's where Matt Morris had told Matt Pharris to meet us. Even though we knew he was coming on the metro we didn't have a specific place planned and I was the only one out of the four of us with a working phone. Before Matt P. was expected we tried to get Maggie a power adapter for her Macbook but found that a store was out of stock until next week. Then we went down to the bottom floor of the metro and ran into a couple of people with signs that read "Going to DTU? Need Directions?" and we talked to them for a little while. When Matt was expected we staked ourselves at the top of the escalators where we thought he wouldn't be able to miss us or us him. We took turns patrolling the street level just in case he came on train or bus because we weren't sure he did take the metro. On my patrol Matt P. actually spotted me from a McDonald's as I walked by. Somehow he sneaked by us and what's even more ironic is that Matt M. and Maggie had went to that same McDonald's just minutes before to use their wi-fi to check for updates. So we all set off to explore Copenhagen and to find some lunch because we were all pretty hungry with it being the middle of the afternoon. That didn't stop us from seeing some sights on the way though. We found a nice cafe near Nyhavn, a popular tourist area with attractions, restaurants and canal tours. Open faced sandwiches are a big things here so that's what we all ordered. We wanted to check out a large star shaped structure that we saw to the north east on our map and we followed one of the larger canals to get there. We found the star shaped structure was an old fort with a start shaped mote around it. We also ventured towards the sea to see the famous Little Mermaid statue. Then we decided it was about time we headed back and walked to Norreport station along a different route to take in more of the city. It wasn't hard to get on the bus we needed, but none of us remembered the exact bus stop we had left from near our apartment. We knew approximately where we needed to get off and had a list of the upcoming stops but that didn't help too much. We passed one stop that really looked like ours so we got off at the next one since the bus didn't stop. As we came closer to the stop we realized we had gotten off too early so we crossed the street and waited for another bus to continue to the right stop. This time we passed the real stop because we couldn't see it coming and got off at the next one again. This time we just decided to walk back. We used the Herlev hospital as our landmark and cut through a neighborhood. Eventually Maggie and I recognized where we had previously been lost while taking our luggage to our apartment. From there it didn't take too long and we were finally back. Now we could think about dinner and went to the grocery store to get ingredients. We all helped out making the dinner and also all helped eat it too. Since the preparing, cooking and eating took a while we were able to meet a few of the guys living in Maggie's building where we were cooking. I headed back to my building and although this was only a short walk somewhere along the way the idea occurred to me to make buttermilk pancakes tomorrow with the sour milk I had accidentally bought. When I entered my kitchen/living room this announcement was well received and aroused some excitement.