Christian & Mari Down Under: May 2007

1,2,3 hurra 4,5,6 hurra 7,8,9 hurra hurra hurra!

Even though we are on the other side of the world 17th of May most off course be celebrated. I don't think I have ever celebrated it as much before as we did this year. We started the day at Kristin and Martes place with breakfast, champis, a lot of norwegian songs, and speeches by both Jorgen and Petter at 7 am. After a long breakfast we continued the celebration at Rosegarden, where ANSA arranged a great lunch with sekkelop, kiwilop, ball kasting and of course some more singing. Then after 3 hours here we walked in 17 mai tog down to the city again where we were invited to Jorgen on Rommegrot and Spekemat, before we went to Seba (a pub in Auckland) to continue the celebrations. It was a incredible cool day, so I am looking forward to next 17 may already:) Hope you all at home had a great 17 may as well and that you did not have to study too much. Provides you all with some photos from the day.

Kristin opening the champis at 7 o'clock in the morning

Marte and Kristin had made a great 17th of May breakfast

Petter and Jorgen enjoying breakfast with champagne

Kristin and Marte had baked a lot of rolls and "kringle"

Petter is holding the first speech for the day around 7.30 am.

It is not often that it is so hot at home that you could were this at 17th of May:)

Yvonne

Eating lunch at Rosegarden

Magnus, Ingrid and Christian is dressed up and ready for lunch.

Enjoying a drink before lunch

June, Magnus and Ingrid

Gutta boys

Sekkelop competition

kiwi skje lop

17 mai toget har bare en liten pause

Ingrid and Marie

Jorgen is serving his homemade Rommegrot

Jorgen is wishing us all welcome

Two happy girls

Weekend trip to Rotorua

This weekend me, Christian, Jorgen, Marte, Kristin and Petter went on a weekend trip to Rotorua. A short summary of the weekend: From friday to saturday we went camping next to a hot spring. When we arrived friday night we could just go into a natural spa next to our tent. Cool huh? So we started the evening with a cold beer in a hot pool in the middle of the forest and watched the stars. Afterwards we made gourmet dinner on Kristin and Marte's primus. On saturday we went ludging( kjorte olabil) down from the top of a gondola in Rotorua in the morning and went climbing for 3 hours in the evening. On Sunday mountainbiking was on the program. After 3.5 hours with biking we went to the hot spring again to relax our tired muscles:) It was an amazing weekend and it is really impossible to decribe it in words! You just have to come here and experience it, but the pictures will give a feeling for it I guess:)

I don't have all the pictures from the weekend yet, but I will post some of the pictures I got.