Where did the sun go?

The weekend finally arrived, and the sun packed its bags and left! Typical! Saying that, I have had the opportunity to get a little bit out of the nice weather over the few days though. On Tuesday I spent the day with my dad in the nice sunny weather. Wednesday I had the morning off work, so I did some shopping and walked around in the sunny weather outside :) Somehow I got inspired to buy a new waterproof jacket whilst walking in the sun! I desperately needed one as last time I used mine, I was more soaked inside the jacket than on the outside.

Thursday I met MO after work. We went to Aker Brygge for some coffee (well, I still don't drink that stuff, so had a hot chocolate), and sat outside in the sun. A bit later we met T and had dinner at Friday's which was nice.

Friday and Saturday I've been working. It was nice weather when I left for work today, but it stopped being nice about half way through the day, and on my way home I needed to find my umbrella.

I've now spent the evening watching the last few episodes of The OC, and now there's nothing more to watch! I need something else to watch, suggestions please!

Time to breathe

Over the last couple of days I have finally had time to sit down and breathe. The last two weeks have been really busy with fun stuff, which means not a lot of time to update my blog, tidy the flat or anything else sensible for that matter...

We have been climbing a few times, went to a cabaret to see T's sister perform, been out for a meal at Baltazar, seeing friends, working and more work...

I have also made my first cake using the stuff I learnt from the cake decorating course. See picture! :)

The weekend just gone I spent at a gathering for District Commisionaries for the Norwegian Scout Association. We discussed a load of things and walked up a ravine/gorge on Saturday afternoon, getting soaking wet. But it was great fun!

The lovely hot weather has finally hit us, and yesterday we took our first bike trip of the year. We cycled to Bygdøy, and found five geocaches on the way too. I've spent my day off today with my dad, looking at cruise ships, shopping at IKEA and generally walking around Oslo in the gorgeous sunny weather!

Cakes :)

It's Sunday night and I should really go to bed. I didn't wake up until one this afternoon though, so don't feel particularly tired... We went out for tapas and wine last night, followed by a friends 30th Birthday party. So bedtime didn't really happen until about four this morning. Did have a great night though. Yesterday Irene and I went on a cake decoration course which was great fun. I have now learnt some skills on how to decorate cakes with butter cream and marzipan. Doing an Icing course soon too which will be good. Last week went pretty fast, doing climbing a couple of evenings, went for a meal and eyetoy playing on PS2 at MO and Russ' and worked in the evenings. I can't see this week being any less eventful. Not ready for early Monday morning yet though...

Choices...

How come there are so many choices to make? I'm really struggling with some of them. Wish I'd know the consequences of my choices before I made them... Oh well.

Had a week with a lot to do at work last week. T flew off to Seattle, so had the flat to myself. Used the opportunity to catch up with some friends which was good.

The weekend I spent in Lillehammer, celebrating Ann Mari's birthday on Saturday night. Other than that I've been to see my parents and a couple of other friends. Glad to be back in snow-free Oslo now though! I'm dreaming of outdoor climbing, bbq in the park and hillwalking. Not long now! :)

Back to work!

That's Easter over and done with, and I was back at work yesterday.

Had a great Easter though, with a trip to Dublin. We did all the obvious stuff like visiting Guinness, Jameson, Dublin Castle etc. We were also lucky enough to experience St Patricks day in Dublin. It is what you can call a buzzing city on the 17th March. We saw the parade and experienced the life with live music in the pubs which was great!

Over the weekend we took it easy. Took a few walks around Oslo, made nice dinner and took some geocaches.

Now Torkjel has flown off to Seattle (I hope...). They left Oslo yesterday morning, but hadn't made it further than Amsterdam in the evening as they missed their connection flight. They were taking the rest of the journey today.

Busy busy busy

Just realised I haven't updated my blog since 1st March. Well, that doesn't mean nothing has happened in the meantime. In short I have been working, seeing friends, had girls night with Irene & co, and last but not least been to Dublin.

I am now enjoying relaxing days before work starts again on Tuesday. It's fantastic weater in Oslo, and we're now off to do some geocaching up akerselva in the sun. Got to do something when I'm not out skiing with the rest of the Norwegian population.

I'll be back with photos from Dublin shortly. :)

Enjoy what's rest of Easter everyone! :)

Spring soon?

Well, it's first of March and February is all over. Does that mean we can expect spring yet? Guess not, I do live in Norway after all.... I'm sure we've got to expect some more snow before it all disappears.

Realised I haven't written here for a little while. It's Saturday night now and we've had a good day. Been for a long walk up to Frognerparken and roundabout other places. Then we went to the Cinema to see Sweeney Todd before heading for Sushi. Great fairly relaxing day.

Tomorrow Irene and co are coming to visit. Looking forward to a day spent with them. We did however see them last week too. Went iceskating with them, Laura, Russ and MO on the Saturday before we all headed to Peppes for dinner. Had the twins and Laura's 2 month old daughter with us too. On Sat night we went to a party at Torkjel's x colleagues house. MO's friend Heidi turned up there which was odd, as we didn't know we both knew the guy having the party. Sunday morning was spent in bed before we went to T's parents for Goose dinner.

The week gone has been busy with climbing at Torshov twice, and MO, Russ and Laura for dinner one night. Work is not as busy now, but still more than enough to do. Looking forward until we get the three new people working for us!

But now I'm gonna enjoy the rest of the weekend before work starts again on Monday.