Saturday, May 19, 2007

Kristiansand to Hirtschals, to Hjorring, and to Aalborg.

In Kristiansand, we stayed for about an hour and then caught a boat to Hirtschals, Denmark. Surprisingly, we ended up in first class and we got a 50% discount on the buffet there. The ride was nice and took only about two hours. Once we got off we followed signs to the train. Everybody else seemed to be passing where the train was, so we followed them, thinking that they'd know where to get tickets. Well, they lead us to a grocery store, leaving us in confusion as our train left. It was two hours until the next one. Instead of waiting, we called a taxi and it and took us to Hjorring. Once at Hjorring, we waited for the next train to Aalborg. After getting on the train and then getting off of it later, we met another one of our exchange students, Jackie. Jackie was our first exchange student and had a British accent, for her dad lives in England. She showed us to our hotel, which was right next to the train station. The whole hotel was full of smoke, we could only handle it for one night. That day, Jackie showed us around Aalborg and took us to dinner. It was nice to be back in Denmark, and it would feel even better to be back home. The next day, Jackie' s mom came to meet us and take us around Aalborg some more. We went up a tower about 50 meters high and saw a beautiful view of all of Aalborg. We stayed up there for a while and ate ice cream. As we came down, we decided to see the Aalborg zoo. The zoo was great, there was a wide selection of animals. There were even beavers that sounded like goats! The same night, Jackie helped us find another hotel. On our way to find it, we stopped by to get some ice cream. After we found our hotel, we ate our ice cream, and said good-bye to Jackie, for we were to leave the next morning.

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