thurs morning: find a shower, get a bike...

Denmark made its first real impression on me from a very full airplane circling the airport, ready to land. Water, islands, flat. One of the first things I saw was a huge suspension bridge that went on and on, then stopped suddenly, maybe a half a mile away from the land it seemed to be reaching for. Bold and mysterious, very foreign. I found out later that it becomes a tunnel right before it meets the Swedish border. So, I get off the plane, get my bag (mine was the first bag out of the gates) and then try to find a telephone to call Mikael. ring, ring, then a womans voice recording of Danish Gibberish...oh wait, its in english too (how convenient)..."this subscriber can not be reached at this time"...oh shit...try again....oh shit...no, I'm OK, this is an adventure after all. So I walk outside, go to the first bus I see, ask if its going to the city center and get on. I get out at the first busy place I see, which turns out to be the government center, Rådhuspladsen. Its a very busy area at 4:30 in the afternoon. Cars, buses, but most of all, bikes. They're everywhere! I have never seen so many people biking. Anyways, I ask around for an internet cafe, sure enough theres one a block away. I send Mikael an email and within minutes he has emailed me back and we are talking on the phone. I get directions, and get in a cab, who proceeds to use his fancy GPS to find his way to Mikael's. Anyways, Mikael and I get acquainted, eat some pizza, drink some beers, talk about friends, music, snowboarding, politics, design, and our common bond, Jonah and Sarah. I get along with him very well and I am very lucky to have such a nice place to stay, even though hedoesn't have a shower.
TO-DO: get a shower, find a bike...