Arhus and the old city

Since I will be doing more interesting things on the weekend I may start to write a short summary of the week on thursday and then account for the weekend on monday. I am trying to figure out the best way to schedule this with my own schedule. Last week was a full week of classes. Currently I am taking four classes: Combustion and the Environment (lots of Chemistry :-( ), Aerodynamics (All about wind turbines :-D ), C Programming, and ISCAN (Introduction to Scadinavia, a culture course...). ISCAN was the alternative to the language course which I opted not to take because everyone in my collegium who was here last semester told me it was horrible and that they all dropped it and the ones who didnt say they learned very little Danish. And I am picking up a few danish sayings here and there just by listening to people talking so I am happy with that. Danish is to some extent similar to english when it is written on paper and a lot of words are spelled the same of phonetically spelled the same for example "rice" is "ris." However the way many danish words are spelled does not translate to how one would think they are pronounced which is why it is so hard to learn to speak it.
On Saturday I got up early to catch a train to the second largest city in Denmark, Arhus. Unfortunately at 7:30 when was ready to leave my apartment I released the buses were not running so I ran most to the 6k from when collegium to the train station. The train system is nice and relatively simple here in Denmark as well as the rest of Europe. You buy a ticket and that ticket is good all day (Until 4am the next morning). You can then ride the train as much or as little as you want. The train ride was about an hour and twenty mins rolling through snow covered danish countryside. Most of Denmark is agricultural land so it was mostly farms with a few larger towns and cities and a lot of wind turbines dotting the landscape. It snowed about 5 inches last week which is pretty huge for Denmark especially because it already snowed in December. In fact the last two years have been the coldest and snowiest Denmark has been in a long time. Yesterday for example it was -16.5 C in the morning which is the coldest it has been any day in February since 1999. 
Arhus was very nice and much like a bigger version of Aalborg. The train station is also a huge mall which was interesting and it exits to the a long pedestrian street. At the other end of the pedestrian street is a massive church as well as a cluster of about 15 smaller pedestrian streets surrounding a canal that cuts through the city. Arhus is on the east coast of Jutland and like Copenhagen has canals for transportation through the city. Our destination in Arhus was a place called the "Old City."
Denmark has not fought in any major world wars since losing alongside Napoleon in Waterloo. (They were one of the world super powers at the time) As a result its cities have not been bombed, and still contain many of the beautiful old buildings from hundreds of year ago. So the Danish government collected these buildings and moved them to one location in Arhus to set up an attraction similar to plymoth plantation/ sturbridge village. There are employees dressed in regalia of the time that you can interact with. However since it is the off season they were mostly inside the buildings. But we found a few at the old Danish bakery where we purchased some classic Danish pastries. Although I have to say either the lack of actors roaming around or the fact that the buildings were truely authentic made it seem more real then Sturbridge etc. Many of the houses were like mini museum exhibits showing off some part of danish culture. They ranged in age from 1500s to 1900s. I did take a lot of pictures but unfortunately I still do not have my camera cable so when I get it I will upload to facebook and some to my blog.
After we left the old city we were free to roam Arhus take the train elsewhere or return home. The people I was with decided to roam the pedestrian streets for a while shopping. Afterwards we ate lunch a danish "chain" restuarant. (Jensens Boefhus). It is a semi chain because there is one in all the major cities so not like McDonalds however for the most part there is one of those is every city as well, no more no less. With maybe the exception of Copenhagen. We were all pretty tired so we took the train home and I watched the sunset over the countryside and took some pretty cool pictures of the turbines with a pink/blue background.
I know this is long but I have one other thing to mention. I made some truely epic hamburgers. I am gonna make another post with the recipe. Please feel free to experiment with it and tell me if I can improve it in anyway because these were really good...