Warum hat die Sechs Angst vor der Sieben?

Weil: Sieben Acht Neun! Keep in mind that jokes don't work in translation, but they are still hilarious between friends.

Wednsday morning we had a relaxed start in the lobby of the hotel:



We went to the Danish Design Center, one of my favorite stops during our stay in Copenhagen.



The coolest exhibition ever was the FLOWmarket which resembles a supermarket with shelves and baskets. You can then walk through and "shop" as you go along. All the items in the store represent things we actually really need but you usually can't buy, such as tolerance, stress killers, non reachability pills, silence, holistic thinking, etc.

Pollution Dissolver:


Tolerance:


Jim loading up the goods:


Our goods at the cashier:



After that we went to Illums Bolighus again, shopped more, and drove to Jeppe's Store, the Ølbutikken . This is an awesome beer store. We talked with Jeppe, got a ticket for 510 Danish krones for parking to long, and headed off to the ferry.

Some of us practiced jokes while waiting for the ferry and made funny faces to emphasize those jokes:


After arriving in Hamburg, we girls relaxed while the guys played poker in their jammies. Bill owns our apartment now, but we can still live here! Thanks Bill!



The next day we showed Bill, Karen, and Jeff a lot of Hamburg.

Bill and Karen in the subway:


Hamburg Rathaus:


How many people are there?


The ruins of the Nikolai Church, which was destroyed in World War II, stand as a memorial. There is a new elevator built into the intact church tower that you can take to the top.


The view from the church tower is grand. You can see the Speicherstadt (those houses with the green roofs), the biggest complex of warehouses in the world. The whole complex is under monumental protection. The warehouses are built on oak poles and each of them has a connection to the canal on one side and on the other to the street:


We had a very German meal at the Gröninger Brewery:


Laeisz-Hof Hallway:


Jim and Bill are tried the paternoster in the Laeisz Hof:


A paternoster is a lift which is built with a chain of open compartments. They move up and down slowly in a circle without stopping. So you hop in and out at the desired floor. Paternosters are not built anymore as they are very expensive to maintain and they are also not accessible for disabled or elderly people. Still a cool experience, and...every German kid had a time with the nightmare about the question "what happens on the top of the building? Will I ride upside down?" ..ARRRRRGGGHHHHH. "Mommy, I wanna go out of here!"

OK, that's it for today. The rest of the visit is coming tomorrow!

- Nat