"I better be at the top of this island right now."

SO MUCH TO TELL. I'm pretty bad at this storytelling business, but I'm going to try to start with the beginning.

Wednesday night, we left Copenhagen around 11pm and took an overnight ferry to Bornholm. This was the start of a very fun and sleep deprived weekend (we got to bed around 1 and got up at 5:30?), but the cabins were very clean and I roomed with Jaclyn. I wish that I could have seen more of the actual trip but we passed out pretty early in the night..

When we got there, we checked into our hostel that we were staying it. The hostel was pretty nice (for a hostel)... They provided us with both breakfast and dinner, which was very nice of them. Here is a picture of one of the rooms... There is Jaclyn looking pretty fly on the top bunk..

We also picked up our bikes (only a small ordeal because neither Jaclyn, Sam or I fit on the "normal" sized bikes) and set out to do the "Killer route." We realized pretty quickly that the killer route would not be 60km of flat land, and instead found that Bornholm is filled with picturesque but painful hills. We made it to the nearest city and everyone I was with got fish from a famous smokehouse. I went for a personally better option and got Ben and Jerry's (ice cream #1 of the day).

We also found a bunch of rocks out by the ocean to climb on and spent a while there. Then we all biked back to a glass-blowing factory where we sat half mesmerized, half trying not to pass out while we watched women make all sorts of glass thing. By the end of the day we probably went around 30km (18 miles), came home, ate dinner, got ice cream #2 and fell asleep by 9pm.

Friday we woke up sore. And I mean sore. But we decided to power through and do another bike trip... We ended up biking to Denmark's largest waterfall. Maybe it was because it wasn't peak waterfall season, but it wasn't thaaaat big. The four of us actually arrived in a forest COVERED in these beautiful, white flowers (pictures below). About 1/4 of a mile in,  at the bottom of the waterfall and decided to be adventerous and climb up it. It was relatively tough, and there were definitely some slippery and hard to grab onto parts of the waterfall, but we finally got to the top and were covered in dirt. Then we looked up and saw an older couple and I thought to myself that it was impressive that they, too, climbed the waterfall. We then quickly learned that there was already a path paved to the side of the waterfall (and needless to say we took that route on our way down!)... but it was fun anyway! Pictures below.

We took a ferry home around 7pm (after we got ice cream #3, of course) and this time we took a speed ferry to Sweden. First of all, the ferry was going SO FAST that when we stepped out on deck it was hard to even walk quickly. Then we arrived in Sweden about 2 hours (and some great bonding time) later. Even though we were only on the ground of Sweden for about 60 seconds before we got onto the bus to take us home, it was still exciting!! Here is a picture of the crazy, crazy wind on the back of the boat.

This brings me to now, where Jaclyn and I are sitting in a little cafe pretending to do homework (but really we are drinking wine, beer and blogging..). We are in a little place that Lauren recommended, and it is so pretty that I just had to take a picture!