Copenhagen and Oslo

Ok, so on Friday I biked into Copenhagen to go to the airport (by the way, I would not recommend anyone bike to an airport unless it's necessary...) and on the way I rode all around the city looking at Copenhagen in daylight (which I'd never seen before). It turned out to have a lot of really cool small shops and things not the typical franchise, chain branded stores I'm used to in the states.
I read a lot about "Second hand Copenhagen" which is a group of these shops that specialize in used stuff (clothes mostly, but also furniture). Again, these shops were a lot different than the second hand stores I'm used to. In the states, second hand shops (Goodwill, The Salvation Army etc.) receive donations and then sell them at low prices and use the money to fund poorer areas (at least I think). The idea behind this is that it will benefit the lower class in more than one way: they benefit from the profits of the stores and they have affordable clothes available to buy. In Copenhagen, however, second hand boutiques such as Kobenhavn K, KK Vintage, The Second Way, and Fiske are quite expensive indeed. In fact, these stores were comparable to if not more expensive than stores selling new clothes.
While the clothes were out of my price range (Tee shirts from 100DKK to 300DKK (20USD to 60 USD), I had a lot of fun looking at them. There were a lot of retro stores selling some really cool tees, jackets and sun glasses and one store with all vintage shoes. Very cool.
I really feel the second hand idea and I guess this works so well in Denmark because of the country's enormous wealth. Which is too bad for me (who wanted to buy some cool new (or rather "used") clothes), but I still got some cool pictures.
So after 5 hours of exploring Copenhagen, I headed south to try and find the airport. Annnnnnd that turned out to be quite a task. Once I found the airport (took like an hour), I tried to find an entrance that wasn't a freeway or an underground metro (took another hour). But all was well, and I found a way and everything worked out alright and I got on a plane and headed to Oslo (in Norway) for some snowboarding. Quite awesome, but two things were not so good. First, I thought Denmark was expensive, but sadly Norway is a fair amount more expensive. And secondly, I like broke my wrist snowboarding, so I'm on my way now to the Doctor to get it checked out =\\\. All in all though it was a really good weekend.