Road Trip!

Waiting to get in the cars for the trip.

So a bunch of us took a little road trip to Copenhagen. Road trips can be entertaining anyway, but with the people I was with were really fun. We had a total of 25 people going on our trip to Copenhagen and I was in a van with Ivan, Felix, Maria, Mehek, Mikko, Marika and Arto. Five minutes down the road, Felix jumps out of the van at a stop light and runs to another car to give them a copy of the directions, then runs back. Normally this would not have been a terribly funny event, but we were already wound up for the trip, and Felix was running as fast as he could. Everyone in their cars was staring at him like he was nuts. We were all laughing and yelling out the window “Hurry Felix!” A few hours later we made it to Lübeck. This was good considering that’s where our hostel was, but at some point we were driving around the city and Ivan turns around and says with certainty, “we are lost.” We did eventually find our hostel. The next day we were lost trying to find our way out of Hamburg. This however, was not the fault of Spanish people, it was the Finns. Mikko was driving and Arto was attempting to read the map. He kept saying… “I don’t see that road on the map.” This is a sure sign of inaccurate map reading. We were lost for about and hour. We did however get a lovely tour of Hamburg. We got lost again in Copenhagen and stopped at a pizza place in the ghetto to ask for directions. The people were very nice and told us right where to go. That was very kind of them. On the way home, we did have a bit of a dilemma…no one printed the directions for the return trip, so Marika was reading them backwards to find out which highways we needed to take. This turned out to be more difficult than it sounded, but we didn’t get lost that time. Marika is a good navigator. All in all, our time in the van was memorable.