At long last we arrived in Denmark on Thursday morning. We arrived but some of our luggage wasn\u2019t so lucky. I believe this is the fourth time in my life that some, or all, of my luggage has been lost or delayed. Losing luggage seems like something that shouldn\u2019t happen to a person more than once in their life.<\/p>\n
The letter I received from the university said that someone would meet us outside of customs. No one was there. When I called my contact person they said the person was inside the baggage claim area, and I had missed them. Great! How does one go backwards through customs?? It turns out in Copenhagen you can. <\/p>\n
Customs in Copenhagen, I should mention, are the easiest customs I\u2019ve ever been through. You just follow the sign that says you have nothing to declare and walk out the door. There wasn\u2019t a single person there to look through your luggage, and the passport stamp didn\u2019t involve a single question. I\u2019ve been interrogated in our friendly neighbor Canada more than once. In Mexico you push a button and about one in three people who get a light when they push have their luggage gone through. Copenhagen was a welcome change.<\/p>\n
At our apartment we learned another lesson. The 2nd<\/sup> floor in Denmark is what we would normally call the 3rd<\/sup> floor. So when our apartment key envelope said \u201c2nd<\/sup> floor\u201d we went up one flight of stairs and tried the doors. Our key didn\u2019t work. Luckily the occupants weren\u2019t in or we would have looked like robbers. After much stress (we were jet lagged and very tired which didn\u2019t help), we tried more doors in the building, eventually finding ours on the 3rd<\/sup> floor.<\/p>\n I feel asleep immediately as did the rest of the family. Somehow my wife woke up after a few hours at about noon (3 a.m. by my body\u2019s clock) and woke the rest of us up so we would sleep that night. I felt like the walking dead for a half hour or so.<\/p>\n I snapped a few pictures from the inside of our apartment, as well as a couple of what we can see outside our windows like the local church–Sankt Markus,\u00a0before we went out exploring for the first time. <\/p>\n
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