Rum is the New Black

Whippin’ into the Copenhagen airport, Anna was waiting at the gate with a Canadian and Danish flag waving!  It was so awesome to finally make it!

We both realized that I was the first person to visit Anna in her new Danish home three years ago when she first moved here and I’m likely to be the last person before she moves on to her new home in Hawaii.  So I have ‘opened’ and ‘closed’ Denmark.  Interestingly enough if everything goes according to plan for my trip to Hawaii in January / February, I am likely to ‘open’ Hawaii as well.

We had a great day even if I did sleep some of it away… I took a 2 hour nap after having a Starbucks at the airport so without a doubt I was tired for sure!  Before the nap Anna prepared the fabulous lunch of lentil soup, salad and fresh bread from the corner store.  There are so many bakeries in her neighbourhood I don’t know how she does it.  We had this great pumpkin seed bread.  Very delish!

After the nap we did some shopping and came to the realization after seeing several shops of all black shoes that unless I want sensible black shoes I’m going to have to look elsewhere for this year’s shoe purchase!

I did get neat silicon tea ball (Lynn, it’s super neat… Danes have some wicked design concepts) and fun orange dress shirt.  Nothing like seeing it in the window, loving it, trying it on, and it fits!

After dropping off our purchases it was off for an early dinner.  At Ni-9 (which literally means 9-9 in Danish), which was a running sushi restaurant so, all he sushi comes by on a conveyor belt.  There was one for hot and one for cold.  So very tasty!  It was my first time trying out one of these places but the best part was there was only one item per plate so you could try so many things!  We agreed our absolute favourite was like a summer roll but had crispy shrimp, spicy and sweet sauce with shredded lettuce.  A very close second was this sautéed shrimp. SO GOOD!

Then we met up with some of Anna’s friends for drinks at a Tiki bar called the Brass Monkey for drinks.  Anna and I both The Zombie with five types of rum and absinthe and some fruit juices blended on site.   Considering a amount of rum in the drink it was very tasty!  Oh yes, it also came on fire and in served in a zombie monkey head!   Anna super raved about the Pina Coladas at this place and although it wasn’t on the menu it was the special that day and I kid you not, the BEST Pina Colada’s I’ve ever tasted!  AMAZING!!!

And now it’s NOMA day!  I’m so excited after two months of waiting it’s finally here!  I’ve heard various things... like I will be served shrimp to eat that is still alive or ants that taste like lemon.  Whatever comes it’s going to be exciting and I’m sure, delicious!