BFDs

We've been here in Copenhagen for almost 3 months now and we are pretty much all settled in.  Christopher is working at the lab.  Gaius is enjoying school.  I'm shopping on the Strøget.  I thought you might like to know about our Best Friends in Denmark, our BFDs.

Jens

Handsome Guy, and he cooks too!

Jens is our Ambassador to Denmark and one of our closest friends.  When we arrived in Copenhagen, Jens picked us up at the airport.  On New Year's Eve, Jens hung out with us and taught us about all of the Danish NYE traditions.  Several years ago, Jens took us to Skagen and we had a nice holiday.  (Read about that HERE.)

Skagen, Denmark 2010

Jens and Christopher have been great friends since they were back at UCLA.  In fact, I met Jens at UCLA too, while smoking in front of CHS.  Jens was actually there the night Christopher and I met! Jens works at the University of Copenhagen.  He lives in Helsingør.  He's a great cook.  He has two kids, a son and a daughter.  Ladies, he's single!  We will be hanging out with Jens in Helsingør this weekend.  I'm bringing a carrot cake and a bottle of champagne.

CDN and Jens talking science

Dallas

We ran into Dallas on our first trip to the skate park at Fælledparken. When I took this video, I had no idea that Gaius and Dallas would become the best of friends.  Here's Dallas!

Gaius and Dallas have so much in common.  They both love skateboarding.  

Gaius & Dallas Skateboarding

They both love listening to Metal.  Here is a picture of them at Gaius' first concert, Flowers Must Die at Musik Loppen in Christiania.

Gaius & Dallas at Musik Loppen

Dallas is an amazing English speaker.  He is helping Gaius learn Danish.  One amazing fact about these two friends is that they were born one day apart! Dallas is one day older.  

Jessica

Shopping with Jessica

I met Jessica on the first day of school at CIS Orientation.  Her daughter, Abby started school on the same day as Gaius.  Jessica is from New Jersey and her family just moved here too.  One day, Christopher, Gaius and I were out shopping in Copenhagen and we actually ran into Jessica and her family.  It's strange to be in a foreign city and actually run into someone you know!  And of course, Jessica is the first parent who actually said hello to me at Parent Pick Up.  She's nice like that.

Skål! Pillaging an unmanned beer station at Magasin.

It turns out that Jessica (like me) is a huge fan of the show This is Us.  The first time we hung out, she came over to the apartment and we watched 3 episodes of season 2, back to back, and cried together.  So much fun!

Now that Jessica has her own VPN and she can watch This Is Us on her own, we still hang out.  Now that's friendship!  It's really great having a friend who is in the same boat (new to CPH.). We share all the new information about where to get things, how to use things, and what to do.

Things in Common:  We both like going to bootcamp and watching This Is Us.  We both wear the same model Fitbit (Charge 2).  We both enjoy figuring out how to live in Denmark.  And who doesn't like drinking, shopping and going out for lunch?

I hope you have enjoyed reading about our friends.  Having friends in Denmark for us really is a BFD.