Norway

My week in Oslo was very relaxing. Camilla is quite pregnant. Well, maybe not as I type this - she might have a new little daughter by now. But her and Joel are extremely cute together and definitely gave me a warm welcome when I arrived Friday evening. They don't know how to say no - they're having a baby, selling their current apartment, and moving into their new apartment all within a month's time.

Excuse me?

Saturday it rained a lot, so I read the other book I bought in Bonn and took a nap while Camilla got stuck huddling in a cafe during her errands. Because of the rain, it took her twice as long to come back home. Poor girl! :( But when she did come back, she showed off her shopping spree goodies. Her fave store was having a half-off of half-off sale. Really nice clothes for a fraction of the price! I would have done the same!

Sunday we went on a long hike through some local woods - Oslo is a very green capital! Camilla was getting worn out, and frankly so was I. But at the top of the hills were some fresh raspberries alongside the path. So, that gave us the extra little kick we needed to get back down the hill to the tiny ice cream shop before heading home.



Here she is taking a little break, while I took a great shot of the city....



...Oslo in all her beauty!

Raspberries are not my favorite, but that's when they're fully grown and plump at the grocery store. Little tart fresh raspberries are something else.



Yummy! If it was blackberries, I would have been in heaven.

Since all the moving was going on at Camilla and Joel's, I stayed with Trond for the rest of the week. I met up with Hanne and spent some wonderful time with her in great weather! I tried meeting up with Linda and Therese, but they were both extremely busy. Therese was up in northern Norway for the week and Linda has a job helping to produce a reality show on TV - so as lowly PA, she gets all the mindless, yet time-consuming jobs. I did manage to see Trine, who had a baby five months ago...

His name is Eirik and I don't have a picture of him. But we had a lovely dinner and chat before my train to Hamburg left Thursday evening. And what a great train ride it was! Four Swiss and me! Swiss German - if you didn't know - is quite different from standard German. Luckily, two girls (Rahel and Eva) spoke standard German with me, while the other two from Bern (an even harder dialect of German) chatted away on the bottom bunks. I nearly missed the damn train too! Had like one minute left before it pulled away. Sigh...

Everything went smoothly getting in to Hamburg, where Stefanie met me at the train station.