Woke up around 9am in the morning and started the arduous process of packing all of my crap into suitcases. Craig had rented a car to come up to Oslo as it was a fairly short jaunt (well, in truth most travel from one country to the next is a short jaunt) of about 3 1/2 hours drive. So we went down the street to the large cafe (one of the few open on Sunday) and had a club sandwich, fresh apple juice, and a double latte. I wish I would have hit this place more as the prices were cheap and the food good, probably why it is almost always packed.
Anyway, the drive back was pretty boring. The countryside looked like the Oregon coastal valleys covered in trees and free range cow farms. The tunnel out of Oslo was interesting. They built a tunnel under the fjord to they wouldn't have to build a bunch of bridges. An interesting thing about Norway is that they had fire extinguishers every couple hundred meters and every third of fourth one also had a telephone booth. They are way big on safety in Scandinavia.
So the trip was uneventful and Craig and Lovisa had to shuffle between dropping off the rental car and arranging for two kids to be picked up from their respective soccer matches. I arranged the guest room downstairs while they were out. The house itself is pretty big in an upper middle class neighborhood behind a grade school. There is three bedrooms and 1 1/2 bathrooms upstairs and one bedroom/guest room and a bath downstairs.
The house looks like a Swedish house should look like, with a lot of Ikea style furniture and wooden floors. Craig and Lovisa made a nice udon noodle stew from stratch with veggies and beef, then we had cheese and ice cream for dessert. Then watched a couple episodes of Prison Break, a somewhat cheesy US crime drama-ish about eight guys that broke out of a prison.
We took a brief walk around the neighborhood as this is Craig's main form of daily exercise. Then sleeping in til 10am. Shower (the downstairs shower is awesome), double latte, some fresh homemade sourdough with a tasty sweet cheese/butter spread we got in Oslo plus the tasty juice for the same.
Ready to face the day now.
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