A weekend off.. finally!

So after my stupid test, at least they rewarded us by giving us a 3 day weekend. Blake and I thought about going somewhere random, like Warsaw, but decided to check out things around here instead. We started off with a trip to Helsingborg on Saturday, which is an hour or so train ride north of Lund. I was pretty excited because last time we went to Helsingborg (in December) it was cold, and the main thing to see- the medieval fortress, Kärnan, was closed.

Here is Blake at the top of the tower which offers a pretty good view of the town of Helsingborg.

We then hopped on a ferry across the way to go to Helsingor in Denmark. Helsingor is home to Kronborg Castle, which is commonly called Hamlet's Castle, because it is the castle that Elsinore was based off of in the play Hamlet.

We randomly ran into Bjorn at the station in Helsingor and talked with him and his friend for a bit, which unfortuntely caused us to get caught in the nastiest rain storm ever, and if we hadnt stopped and chatted we could have been safely inside the castle. We had to huddle against a wall with a bunch of other people to wait out the storm. Dont worry, we gave Bjorn crap for it later. Here I am after the worst of it was over:

Here we are after we toured the castle:Afterwards we walked around Helsingor a bit, although like most Scandinavian towns, most things close by 4 everyday, so we just caught a ferry back to Sweden. Alcohol is a bit cheeper in Denmark, so a lot of Swedes stock up if they go out of the country:
If you want to see the rest of the pics, you should check them out here.