my semester in sweden: weekend visitors!

so this weekend darin came to visit! it was an exciting weekend trying to show him all the exciting points of lund (there aren't that many). i showed him the campus and we just walked around the time and i showed him some of the nations, lund cathedral, nova lund, and a lot more. all my friends here were able to meet him and it was a lot of fun.
on sunday we awoke to POURING rain! it was windy, rainy, and looked like it wasn't going to let up. but that didn't stop us from going to copenhagen! so me, darin, and tiffany walked to the train station (a 15 minute walk) in the rain and got completely soaked. fortunately we were able to dry off on the 45 train ride to denmark.
once there it was still pouring and we were trying to figure out which bus we needed to take to get to carlsberg brewery. we searched everywhere, and looked at 3 different maps but couldn't figure it out! so we ended up just taking a cab and shelling out 75DEK.
once there we paid about 50DEK (a little less than $10) and took the tour of the brewery. we were able to see the history of carlsberg and how they make the beer. we even got to go out to the stables and see the horses! woo hoo!
after that we went up to their bar area and they had this table that had these bottles that had different scents (citrus, oak, coffee, chocolate, corn, smoke, toasted bread, apples, banana...) and you marked on a paper which ones you liked. then next to the bar they had a list of all of their beers and it listed which scents were in each of the beers and you were able to pick a beer by the aroma combination in it. i got the carlsberg hvede (cloves, caramel, red apples) and teh saaz blonde (hopps, citrus, cloves, banana). both were really good!
by this time the weather had cleared up and we were able to explore copenhagen a little bit! we walked back to the center of town and looked around a bit. by now we were starving so we went to a little place for dinner and had some burgers before having to head back to the train station.
darin had to get back to the airport so he could check in for his flight so we all got back on the train, tired but full, and dropped off darin at the airport. tiffany and i passed out and slept the entire way back to lund. all in all a great weekend!
i start my next class in 2 weeks so i'm excited to have something to do during the week! but not excited that i'm going to have to be biking more outside! its already getting super cold. a few of the nights drop down into the high 30's and i'm just terrified to think that its only october! i'm scared of how cold its going to be once november and december roll around! i had to bust out my big down jacket this weekend! it finally happened!
hope you all are staying warm back home!
miss you lots
love you more!