I'm not gonna lie, these past few days have been pretty rough, trying to assimilate into a new culture in a foreign land is never easy, but when you are trying keep your head up and attempting to find an apartment which is a needle in the haystack in this case you end up hating your situation and everything  around you, until you find the hidden magic that every place guards safely. Usually a place will offer up what you need even before you yourself know you need it and most times you never find what you are looking for until you stop trying.  This was the case for our day today, we were looking for a specific place, but stumbled upon several places that managed to slightly alleviate the massive storm clouds that hung over us.  Today was like a song, it had that build, prechorus to the chorus elation.  Firstly we stumbled upon a lovely place called Ostedsparken, this was the prechorus. 

This next place was the chorus, the elation, the lift we so desperately needed.  This place is called Israels Plads, This place is massive, two buildings, and in between the buildings are several tents piled high with carts and boxes of fresh produce.  Inside the two buildings there are vendors all over selling their best stuff, tea shops, coffee shops, cupcake shops, fresh meat stands, and so much more.  All of this has a common theme, healthy and sustainable with a massive dose of local.  As soon as you enter those large sliding doors to either of those buildings, the smells of fresh bread hit you along with lavender from a soap stand and some deliciously tempting pastries that waft past your nostrils.  You become enveloped in the smells and many sights of this place.

Feast your eyes on those loaves...

Cupcakes for you Mom, they had Red Velvet

Mom, I am eating my fruits and veggies

An aisle to the massive indoor market

Americano for you Pops!

Serious chocolate overdose my friends

Finally, some fresh produce in a big city

The outside market

Inside market

Allright Dad, what kind of tree is this....Here is its leaf, we thought it was an Olive Tree

I know you know what kind of tree this is.....a Lemon Tree!

Allright, so after our chorus we discovered our bridge, yes mother, we did in fact go to the Botanical Gardens and just like you predicted they were incredibly awesome.  The Botanical Gardens are right next to the University of Copenhagen and are stunning, with a pond in the middle and millions of plants and trees, mostly labeled, that cover the vast grounds.  

OK, ok, ok, so, the final chorus, lastly we found this restaurant my sister had been eyeing.  She is a pastry chef who has a love for sustainable food, mostly foraging and naturally/locally sourced, and found this neat restaurant in Copenhagen called 42 RAW, which as the name says uses nothing but raw ingredients, completely unprocessed.  Which isn't just super healthy and delicious for you, but is much better for the environment because you take away the necessity for so many processes that are needed for most food production.  I will attest that 42 RAW has awesome raw cookies.  My sister being an incredibly astute chef pointed out that 42 degrees celsius is the temperature at which raw food must stay to be considered raw, incase you were wondering.  We also stumbled upon a really sweet music store, that had drool worthy keyboards everywhere, sigh....