Roaming about Copenhagen

There is a train into Copenhagen which is super nice and only about $10 each way. Also once you stamp your train ticket in Faxe you can ride the metro and buses in Copenhagen without paying again for the rest of the day. The trains are of course really clean, fast, and quiet. The first time I took the train was actually from Lyngby, the town outside of Copenhagen where I was originally supposed to work before that family decided to move to Saudi Arabia. I was in Lyngby sorting out some paperwork on Thursday and went to Copenhagen by myself to explore afterwards. Anyway, so I bought a ticket and wasn't really sure what to do after that so I just got on the train figuring someone would collect tickets. I got off about 15 minutes later in the city still wondering what was up with the tickets. Later Michael explained to me that there is a machine when you walk on the train where you insert your ticket and it gets stamped with the date and time. Sometimes the conductor will come through the train to inspect tickets and if yours isn't stamped you get a huge fine. I was very lucky, oops!
Copenhagen is a really unique city and everything is very small compared to American cities. There is an interesting mix of super old buildings and newer ones as well. Danes are really into design and architecture, which can be seen everywhere. I found the city easy to navigate using the maps in my Lonely Planet Denmark book (thanks Alex!) and had a great day exploring the Norreport area. I later found out that Norreport is considered dangerous (keep in mind that's Dansh standards of danger haha) because of conflicts there with immigrants. That was all Michael told me, so I'm not really sure what that's supposed to mean. There are immigrants everywhere but there aren't riots everywhere.
Anyway, I got a coffee ($3, nothing fancy either) and read for a bit. Then I headed just a few blocks away from the Norreport train station and went to the Statens Museum for Kunst. A lot of museums in Copenhagen are free or very cheap which is excellent because everything else there is expensive. Kunst was free and I think there were probably about 10 people in the whole place. They had a really wide range of art from the 1600s-present both Danish and non-Danish artists. It was very relaxing but I wished that I had someone (Bronwyn? Pablo?) there with me so I could crack jokes. I should probably get used to doing things like that by myself though.
Copenhagen is a cyclist's dream. There are bike lanes on practically every street and separate traffic lights for bikers. Pretty cool. I almost got run over a few times because the curbs are so low and I didn't realize I was standing in the bike lane. Brilliant.
I went back to Copenhagen again on Sunday with my friend Nelia. She is very cool, from Russia, and works as au pair for another family in Faxe who are good friends with my family. She's been here since March so she is an excellent person to travel with. We took the train from Faxe and I managed to stamp my ticket this time. When we got to the city we walked around for a bit, saw the Palace where the royal family lives and then paid about $12 for an hour long guided canal boat ride around the city. The tour guide was very impressive. She was a Danish woman and she led the tour in 3 languages; Danish, German, and English. We saw a lot of cool stuff, had to duck when we went under bridges, and of course saw the famous Little Mermaid statue. She is a kind of small bronze statue in the harbor, perched on top of a rock. She was originally made around 1910, but she has endured a lot of abuse over the years. Her head has been sawed off twice, so after the second time they filled it with cement.