Carlsberg brewery
Skagen
Tivoli
Aarhus
Well its only been a few months since I've checked in.. whoops! Once you get caught back up in reality things start to get a little hectic. This is more or less a little wrap up to my incredible journey abroad. After exams my family came to visit me and we toured around the same Danish trip I took with the student network. We also did just about everything there is to see in Copenhagen in one day and about 6 miles of walking. It was successful for sure and it was really nice to show them the city I'd been living in finally instead of just talking about it on Skype! We went to Tivoli for my parents 28th anniversary, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, again ;), at a restaurant called Nimb. It was a great dinner and then Kels and I went to the old Meatpacking district to show her the nightlife. After my family visited, I had a few days left with my friends and then I headed to France to stay with Audrey for my last week in Europe.
Cheverny castle
Audrey's family vineyard (Bellier is her last name)
Leonardo's tomb in the chapel at Amboise
Amboise
Chambord castle
Chambord
Three musketeer at Max Vauche Chocolatier!
My time in France was amazing, and a good transition home. I wasn't really ready to leave yet so it was nice having a trip before coming home! Audrey lives in Blois, which is known to be a castle region. We went to Cheverny, Chambord, Amboise, and the Blois castle. It was incredible. At the Amboise castle, I got to see the memorial of Leonardo Da Vinci which was awesome. He wanted to be buried in Amboise because he fell in love with the area, and asked the King permission to be buried there when he died. The King grand permission but a fire broke out some years later and burned where he was buried. His remnants were discovered 8 years later and moved into a chapel next to the Amboise castle. The history, the architecture, everything about all of the castles is so remarkable. I visited a few of them back when my mom, Katy, Nicole and I went to France but it was nice seeing it now at an age that I can really appreciate its entirety. Audrey's dad is a winemaker so they live more in the country side on a vineyard. It was great to meet her family, each French food, pick up a little French, and of course enjoy French wine. Now I'm back in the states, working in California for a music technology company called Avid. After this next week I go back home for 10 days and then head back to Lawrence to pick up where I left off!
