The Little Mermaid and exploring food!

As per the suggestion of my father, I will now be blogging more regularly. Today my friend Kelsie and I took a trip to the Little Mermaid statue - a major tourist spot here in Copenhagen that neither of us had gotten to yet. It was underwhelming, to say the least... but Kelsie got a pretty good sandwhich out of the overpriced tourist shop, so I guess it wasn't a total waste. Here is a picture of the statue...

Later on some friends and I went to a really great restaurant called Den Lille Apotek (translated as The Little Chemist), which is the oldest restaurant in Copenhagen. It was SO cool - everything inside (the decorating, paintings, etc) were the same as it was when it opened in 1720. Something else really cool that we learned from the menu was that the restaurant used to be a favorite of Hans Christian Anderson (author of The Little Mermaid and Snow White) in the early 1800's. Here is a picture of the restaurant...

For dinner I had a meal of "Oven-fried Duck served with sugar-browned and boiled potatoes, gravy, pickled red cabbage and prunes", and for dessert I had "homemade apple dessert with whipped cream" (might have stolen this description from the online menu).. It was unbelievable. Pictures below...