Yesterday was Lucas’s birthday, so I enlisted Cassie’s help to make a Lego birthday cake. We left work and headed straight to the grocery to buy supplies. We didn’t want to put in hours making a cake from scratch, so we bought an imported cake mix for a ridiculous price ($9 - Don’t you love Norwegian prices?) and [...]
Friday was the first of our two 5-year wedding anniversaries, so we decided to mark the occasion in the same way we did the original event:
2003: 2008:
We had to use the photobooth at the T-bane station, so we had to settle for four copies of the same pose. But we’ll take what we can [...]
Sunday was another cold day in Oslo, but we braved the weather and headed across the street to the park so that I could do more of my part in the American election process.
Thanks to the online Democtraic Global Primary, I’ve already voted in the first round of elections. Despite being in India at the [...]
According to something Lucas saw, this year was the coldest May 17 in Oslo in fifty years! It actually snowed in some parts of town! Since the weather was generally unpleasant, we stayed inside until the afternoon. When we finally did get dressed up and leave the apartment, we headed up to Hovseter to meet [...]
Tomorrow is May 17, Norwegian Constitution Day, which is vaguely similar to the American 4th of July. They’re both national holidays that celebrate the formation and independence of the respective nations. They both includes lots of flags (both red, white, and blue incidentally). There are parades. There is an underlying current of national pride and [...]