Fancy that! We got there!!

The moment you all waited for:

The answer to the location of where I was.  ~~~~~

Municipal government building

The seat of Copenhagen's municipal council (Borgerrepræsentation) is the Copenhagen City Hall (Københavns Rådhus). The council is chaired by the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Frank Jensen, who with two selected vice-presidents overlooks the 55 representatives of the council who are given civic duties to perform.^[69] The council usually meets every other week at 17:30 on a Thursday.^[69] They discuss a range of issues including labour and employment, business growth, economics, international cooperation and IT, urban planning, housing and construction, and young, old, and disabled people issues, healthcare, and traffic, with a central focus on making the city sustainable and meeting environmental and health targets.^[70]

Mayor Frank Jensen

All members of the council are elected every four years; in the municipal elections in November 2013, the Social Democrats remained in first place with 27.8% of the vote (down by 2.2% from 2009) while Enhedslisten - the Red-Green Alliance was in second place with 19.5%.^[71][72] Copenhagen's mayor Frank Jensen retained his position, but was not happy with the result which was the worst ever for his party. The Social Democrats have been the party behind the mayors of Copenhagen for the past 110 years.^[73]

The municipal government is divided into seven administrative departments; Employment and Integration, Culture and Leisure, Health and Care, Finance, Child and Youth, Social Services, and Technical and Environmental Administration.^[74] It has six political committees and a finance committee. The annual budget for the city is proposed in August and finalized in October and the annual report is published in May of every year. The accounting firm Deloitte is responsible for auditing the City of Copenhagen's accounts.^[75]

Thank you again Wikipedia!

While what it does is kinda boring, it did look really cool!!

This is when the sun finally came out in Denmark around 9AM.

On our Way

After and experience with a very grump information lady, we found a nicer one (and one that knew more) and learned about our train and went to a 7-11 that was there in the station and got the equivalent to a cinnamon roll.

Yum yum!

We just waited around for a while and finally the train came!

They painted the Danish and Swedish colours to show the change, I didn't get a picture of this though!

First sight of Sweden!

About 0.25 miles in and saw this very interesting building.....

Kinda looks like home! 

Brian in Train-ception!

On the train we met a guy (never did learn his name) that was studying in Stockholm, but was from Brazil. He was very helpful in telling us about Sweden and how we would love the dark and cold. Then he learned what the climate was that we came from, so he thought we would like it.

Once we got to Jönköping, Sweden:

If you look it up, the county (or something-I don't know what they call it yet) and the town are the same name.

~~We went to the University and signed our leases,  got our keys, and driving to our accommodations, and left there to unpack.  I think I did an okay job:

Giant escape window!

They have no screens!!--only bugs I have seen so far are spiders and moths, also a couple gnats.

I'm on the very end of the corridor.

Our kitchen!-- (Newmanites know this, but we get to use the fridges and cupboards on a labeling basis).

Game/ sitting room.

TV room, with Michael, a guy from Switzerland I just met while taking with photo.

Where I write you these lovely blogs!

The rest of the room

My bag of Swedish Fish (made in Canada.....not here :(  ) shows you the height of my bed.

The whole of my room.  To the right of my door you can see my light switch......on the outside of my room.  Slightly odd, yes, gotten used to it, not quite!

It also seems that I have one of the largest rooms in the building, okay then!  There was no more that happened Friday night, so I'll just end with some more observations:

• Swedes don't smoke nearly as much as Danes, like, not even close!
• Almost all the Swedes I have met have been willing to help me, the only one who didn't told me "I don't speak English"--so that was the end of that.
• It's mostly European cars here, but I did see one Chrysler and a Dodge!  (And lots of Fords, a lot of these cars are special for over here, they are really small).
• They have metal spikes made into their tires for the snow.
• They ride their bikes all the time, anytime.
• They can't make a straight road.
• It looks a lot like home, with a town, then it turns right into farmland or forest.
• People do not talk to you on the street.
• ~~To the last one~~Unless you ask them question or they ask why you are taking so many pictures.

That is all for this one!  Hopefully I can get done with Saturday, Sunday, and one on currency!

Blog ya Later!