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| So many great goodies! |
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Care Package!
We received a care package yesterday from Oregon. It was filled with lots of wonderful things. I was very excited to see some Burt's Bees (you can find it here it is just REALLY expensive) and some terry cloth kitchen towels and dish cloths (which we haven't seen here yet). Also included were some wonderful notes and pictures from my family, a couple of magazines to read, some tea, Oregon Ducks knee high socks, a cute calendar and some yummy Jalapeno jerky from Michigan. My mom also sent me my advent calendar! I think she made it for me when I was 2 (Mom correct me if I am wrong). Every year she fills the pockets up with fun treats and goodies. I am very excited and happy that the tradition is continuing here in Norway. Thank you Mom!
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Scotch whisky party
On Friday the 16th of November Nordic sponsored a whisky tasting party. It was hosted by a Norwegian whisky snob and it was awesome.
By the end of evening our Norwegian presenter couldn't maintain English for longer than a sentence or two. Also, distilleries in Scotland like to use Oregon Pine for fermentation vessels.
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| One dram of Scotch. |
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| The night's selection. |
Happy Thanksgiving, you foreigners
This is the first year that I was actually awake in time to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Unfortunately, I was still at work when it started.
However, Becca managed to pull off an amazing Thanksgiving dinner after she got home from school!
However, Becca managed to pull off an amazing Thanksgiving dinner after she got home from school!
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| Turkey, home made stuffing, home made cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, green bønner, and gravy! |
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| Chocolate mice, chocolate hazelnut, and caramel candy with sparkling rosé! |
Brew Day
We made friends with some very nice Swedes that home brew. We hung out with them while they brewed last Sunday and last night we got together with one of them (Anders, henceforth referred to as the-Swedish-guy-that-should-have-been-born-in-Portland) and worked out a recipe for the next brew.
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| The Braumeister: because making beer in coolers is for hippies. |
Sunday, November 11, 2012
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| The ski trails with lights! |
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| A pretty little iced over creek. |
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| Cool ice crystals over a puddle. |
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| Pretty icy leaves! |
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| Ice crystals on the bridge. |
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| On the way home we found a sand volleyball court that was frozen. |
Halloween
Happy belated Halloween from Norway! I know that his post is quite late but I thought that I would share anyway.
Halloween is a fairly recently adopted holiday here in Norway. Norwegians have only participated in Halloween for the past 10 years or so.
At school, we had a Halloween celebration for our middle school. It consisted of watching movies (one 'scary' movie and one fun movie) and eating snacks. Students could wear costumes if they wanted to. The majority of the costumes were quite nice, no scary or super bloody costumes. The younger kids had a costume parade to show off their costumes. They also had little parties full of homemade treats. There was also a haunted house that students could go though. My understanding is that the scariest part of the haunted house was the gross tasting drink that was given out at the end. One of the classes even made Halloween games. They asked for donations and gave all the money to a local charity.
On Halloween night kids do go trick-or-treating here. We wanted to make sure to have some candy ready so we bought some at the chocolate factory a few weeks before. We have since found out that giving unwrapped candy or even homemade cookies or muffins is completely acceptable. Not at all what we are used to!
Since we live in an apartment complex, we thought we would have a pretty good number of trick-or-treaters. We were wrong. We saw a lot of kids in the complex but we only got 3 kids at our door. 3!! Oh well, more candy for us!
Halloween is a fairly recently adopted holiday here in Norway. Norwegians have only participated in Halloween for the past 10 years or so.
At school, we had a Halloween celebration for our middle school. It consisted of watching movies (one 'scary' movie and one fun movie) and eating snacks. Students could wear costumes if they wanted to. The majority of the costumes were quite nice, no scary or super bloody costumes. The younger kids had a costume parade to show off their costumes. They also had little parties full of homemade treats. There was also a haunted house that students could go though. My understanding is that the scariest part of the haunted house was the gross tasting drink that was given out at the end. One of the classes even made Halloween games. They asked for donations and gave all the money to a local charity.
On Halloween night kids do go trick-or-treating here. We wanted to make sure to have some candy ready so we bought some at the chocolate factory a few weeks before. We have since found out that giving unwrapped candy or even homemade cookies or muffins is completely acceptable. Not at all what we are used to!
Since we live in an apartment complex, we thought we would have a pretty good number of trick-or-treaters. We were wrong. We saw a lot of kids in the complex but we only got 3 kids at our door. 3!! Oh well, more candy for us!
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| My jack-o-lantern. I designed him myself. Daniel decided to name him Brunswick. |
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| Our Halloween candy from the local chocolate factory. |
Sunday, November 4, 2012
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