Wed - The King's Birthday.
Nice party - it's good to be King. You should
have seen the window decorations!
Our first day in Oslo called for me to tagalong
to business meetings in the morning - that was most interesting (well, to me).
Meanwhile, Tracy and Kayleigh were visiting the (under renovation) the
International School; should we move here, they're it for instruction in
English. They have a 3 student deep waiting list for 3rd grade... :-( But, the
parts that T and K did see seemed quite nice. Oh, the principal is from
Minnesota - I can hear the sing-song gabbing between her and T
now...After the morning's agenda, we
went to the top of the Radisson for
lunch.
After lunch, we went shopping (Dale of
Norway) and then to the Palace for the King's birthday party. Dare I call him
Johan? IS that even his name? We did see quite a lot of people arriving, but
no, they wouldn't let us in. Maybe next
year.
Oh, we then made a second visit to a
second Dale of Norway outlet. You know, sweaters... they're like Starbucks,
everywhere... (well, if there were Starbucks in Norway, that is.) Why do I
mention the sweaters? Well, I haven't mentioned how darned expensive Oslo is
yet - so here goes. The ski sweater (granted, meant to be outerwear so is very
technical
and nice) that I thought I might want was $500. Eek. But hey, a latte is only
$8. (No Starbucks, but Norwegians drink more coffee per capita than anyone in
the world. That's as a nation, I'm sure Portland has them beat -
maybe.)While we were shopping, we also
bought some live flowers for our hosts - hopefully I can dig up a picture,
they're quite beautiful. I'll spare you the details about the
price.
Alex had decided he needs an
electronic English-Norsk dictionary - which is a fine excuse to go to
bookstores... so that's we did. Shockingly, there are books in Norway ;-)
Oslo has some rather nice stores (we saw them all, I think.) The one thing they
don't have is English-Norsk electronic dictionaries.
We returned to the homestead and
decide to walk to the burger bar, just up the road, for a take-out dinner. This
place is take-out only, close to the house, and actually quite good. Apart from
burgers, there was fish, chicken, pizza (with corn), kebabs (with corn, and in
pita, huh?)... did I mention the corn? I think it was in the french fries
too.
Posted: Wed - February 21, 2007 at 11:41 PM
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Published On: Jul 13, 2007 05:14 PM
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