Day 7 - December 23rd - Genforeningspladsens Ice Skating Rink

     We woke up at around 9:30 AM and sluggishly walked down stairs to have breakfast at our hotel. After eating a wonderful breakfast we rambled back up to out room at 10:15 AM. In our rooms we spent about an hour getting ready for our day ice skating at Genforeningspladsens Ice Skating Rink (sport event). At 11:15 AM we walked to the M2 Metro, and at 11:30 AM we took a 35 minute ride over to the ice skating rink. We had to get off halfway through our journey and get on another metro to go to the rink.
     Once we got to our destination it was about 12:00 PM and time for lunch. We walked a ten minute route from the ice skating rink to Big Ben's Pizzeria for lunch. We ordered two pizzas, one peperoni and the other a Newroz, which is a Danish pizza with tomato, cheese, kødstrimler, mushrooms and gorgonzola. After eating for about 45 minutes, we left the pizza place and headed back to the ice skating rink at around 12:45 PM.
Sport Event:
      By the time we got back, it was 1:00 and we bought rental skates for $13 to skate on the ice for two hours. The Genforeningspladsens Ice Skating Rink was a beautiful place to be in December because of all the snow and, especially, the hot chocolate. We all bought some hot chocolate, provided by Genforeningspladsens Ice Skating Rink, and enjoyed skating. This is the largest ice skating rink in all of northern Europe and it is right in the middle of Reunion Square in Copenhagen. Genforeningspladsen is actually the Danish word for reunion square.
     After having fun skating around we hung up our skates and got back on the metro to return to the hotel. We arrived back at the Copenhagen Downtown Hostel at around 3:45 PM. When we entered our room, we decided that we were exhausted from our day of walking and skating and that we wanted to order room service for dinner and just relax. We could not wait for our next day in Copenhagen tomorrow!

Big Ben's Pizzeria where we ate lunch.

Genforeningspladsens Ice Skating Rink in the snow.