Since last time...

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Tobogganing!

2nd attempt at skiing

In January I tried skiing. Norwegians, they say, are born with ski's on their feet and now I know why. After two tries and many big blue bruises on my arse, I managed to ski down a hill. Check out the videos - click on film strips to the left.

February
Renee & Martijn visited us.
Tobogganing...check out the video
Snow started to melt

March
Went to Australia...check out the photo
- caught up with family and friends
- new cousin (Bianca)
- warmth and sunshine

April
Back from Australia
I went to Florence with Vicki
Started my job at GE Money bank (no more ugly sweaters)

May
Andre (my little nephew) arrived in the world!
17th May - Norway Day...check out the ugly strawberry photo below
A month filled with Public holidays, yeepee!!
Spring

June
Moved to a bigger place
My birthday
Liam visited us
Summer and bbqs

July
Intensive Norwegian course
Oyvind visited us
Finally got to visit someone instead, Jens in Berlin
- checked out the sights, bars, beer ping pong

We went camping with Renee and Martijn in Belguim
- Bread machine (you can buy bread from vending machines on the streets)
- Rain and our tents
- Puerto Rico board game (favourite past time)
- Creative dinners (we split into pairs and had to make camping dinners)
- Beer bike rides

August
Holiday to Romania with Lars
- Wine & nice dinners
- Beach
- Made some Romanian friends

Stavanger with Katja
- drinking
- adventure into stavanger from the middle of nowhere almost
- killing the chicken and our quest for glue

Lars birthday
Massive birthday party for Lars and Katja
Marte lived with us til she found a place in Oslo

To come
More blog entries...😊
Visit from Jens at the end of September
Visit from Danielle in October
Autumn
More norwegian courses
Searching for a new job
Planning xmas
More travels

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Photos

Lars making stir fry in the back alley of flinders lane, in Melbourne
It was superb!

What a fucked up looking strawberry
Norway Day - 17th of May

After we put the chicken together
In Stavanger

Lars walking the plank
At his birthday party

Lars lovin the bread machine
In Belgium

Lars looking his worst
In Romania

Maria trying hard to look her best
In Romania

Beer ping pong
In Berlin with Jens & Lars's parents.

Comments

[Renee]

great to see that you have been busy with the blog again....

[Life]

Strawberry
I love it - wish all strawberries were like that ...

[Karen Veitch]

I love your blog - it always makes me laugh!

[nicky]

just cos
hey guys thought i would just drop you a little line so that you knew i had been checking up on you! Nay always appreciates the "comment" space on her blog i think, should do that next! Hope youre well - Im fine - in WA just like i told you i would be all those months ago.. Not a bad little city, enjoying the sunshine. What are your latest updates and plans for the closing of 2008???