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This weekend met up with some friends for an amazing BBQ party. We had a lovely time with bunch of jokes and wholesome moments. Even some spicy ones xD

The agreed to rent a place on a small campiste in the Netherlands. All I had to do was to get my ass on the right trains. Thankfully this time the distance was shorter, so I only needed to change train one time. My friend picked me up at the station and we head to the place. When we arrived everyone else were already there.

The people I met up with are a group that I have gotten to know online through either games or streaming. I had met some of them before like Nacho_gal, Joouwx and Pinbals. It was my first time meeting my friends Difan and Mr.Moopie. They were really nice ^^

We got to know each other a bit and then we two of us headed to the store to buy the food and drinks. We got some sausages, burgers, bacon and chicken scewers. Mr. Moopie had bought two small grills for our food. We just hung out, ate food and had a lovely time all together.

I had to leave a bit after 8 pm because I needed to catch the train home. I didn’t want to take the very last one in case I would get stuck again xD Three of the people were staying over, but I wanted to take things slow and decided to not do it this time around. My friend Pinbals drove me to the station and I had to run because I only had a couple of minutes. I managed to get on the train with 1 min to spare.

I got home at around 11pm and spent the rest of the night streaming until around 6 am before I headed to bed ^^ It was really nice to finally meet more of my online friends and I’m definitly looking forward till next time.

Today we were heading home from Germany. That shouldn’t be too hard, right? Well I’ll just tell you this. It’s was one of the most annoying and frustrating travel experience I have had.

We woke up really early because our train was planning on leaving at 6:33 am from the neighbour town. Thankfully our friend was able to drive us. By following this route we would be home at aroun 1 pm. We got there with like 10 min to spare and all is well. We sit down on the train, look up at the monitor and it still says that the train is on time and then it starts driving. Around 15 min later we suddenly stop to let a train from the oppisite direction through and then suddenly after that the monitor changes to say that we will be 13 min delayed, which was just the beginning of our annoyance.

We arrive at Frankfurt and walk as fast as we can towards the other platform just in case our train was still there. As we take walk anot the platform we see just see the conductor walk onto the train and the doors shut. The really frustrating part was that the train even stood there for like two minute before driving off. So we look up alternatives and qickly figure that we need to head to an another big city called Köln Messe/Dautz so that we could take a quick train to Köln Hbf. On that route the exact same thing happens. Waiting for opesite train and we miss the exchange. We do manage to get a anoter one quite quick which still gave us a chance to get the direct train from Köln Hbf. We get on, arrive at the station try to run as this time, but constantly gets stopped by other people and MISSED the train AGAIN by a hair!!

At this point we are REALLY frustrated. We don’t like spending time on traveling so the longer it takes the more annoying it gets. Nathan also has to work tomorrow and didn’t want to spend all day on just traveling. We decided to wait 1h for the next direct train instead of taking an earlier one that had 3 different changes. We got something to drink from Starbucks, sat down, relaxed and got our grocerie shopping done since there was nothing better to do.

We get on the train and make it to Brussels with some odd stoppes that weren’t even mentioned on the timetable. When we got of we even realised that we had stopped at Brussels Noord instead of Bruxelles Midi, which was good cus that is closer to home. The we hopped on our last train and even took us one step CLOSER to home than what the other ones that we usually take do. Got of the train and onto the bus. After that it was only a short walk which felt like it took forever. A bit over 2h delayed we were FINALLY home!! We went from 1 pm to 3 pm and we were both just exhausted since we had woken up before 6.

Today was defintly just a big loose when it came to transport. My friend suggested that it the reason might have been becasue Germany is missing insanly amount of people right now, but we learnt that next time if we go by train we should take the on BEFORE our original plan and just basically expect delays and include that into our planning. Now we are just chilling, gaming, updating everything and stuff like that before we will be heading to bed, maybe a bit earlier that usual.

Tomorrow everything goes back to normal. I’m quite excited to be back to streaming and gaming. I have missed that part of the vacay the most. We did a bit of gaming at my friends place, but nothing can compare to using your own pc.

Today was our last day here in Germany. Our plans were escape room and then end it with a nice bbq.

Our day started by walking the dogs. Since it was raining we just walked around town. When we got back we almost left imidietly to the neighbour city.

The place was called “Stage Escape” and our theme was backstage theme. Long story short, our band aka Brownie Cake was about to go on stage, but then we suddenly got locked up by a crazy fan and we have to get out before our support band was finished and we had to go on stage. We had 1 hour

The quickly figured out that we needed a bunch of sheet music. There were like 4 cases with different combinations that all needed to he unlocked and then contained new music. It was really funny experience especially since my friend got hung up on a clock thinking it was important, but got told at the end that it was only to confuse her 🤣 We were almost made it out. We had 1 min overtime.

On our way home we stopped by the store to buy some hair colour and snacks. Then when we got back our friend who cut our hair the other day can back and we started the process of bleaching and colouring my hair. I went for a red colour and decided to have it like “Nezuko” (my favourite anime character) has it basically only doing the ends on the back hair.

Then it was finally time to start the bbq. We grilled some sausages, bacon and steak. We ate it together with some potato salad and variety of sauces. It was tasted really good and its been a while since I had bbq. The dogs also enjoyed it and kept us company even though they mostly sat by the table hoping for some food and sometime they got lucky.

The rest of the night was spent gaming and just hanging out. We are heading home tomorrow at 6 am in the morning. The train tip is 5h30 min which means we will arrive in our city at around noon.

It was been a really great vacation. Got to spend some quality time with my family and also with my friend. We did a lot of fun things, but I’m looking also really looking forward to get back home and be able to game and stream again.

Today was the most exciting day, because it was one of the biggest reason why we took this trip. A whole day filled with nothing but anime.

We started our day by heading out at around 10 am since it took us around 1h30 to Animagic. We just enjoyed the ride listening to some music from different anime’s to put us in a perfect mood for the day.

Upon arrival we could already see a bunch of people cosplaying all kinds of characters. Anything from “Demon Slayer”, “Naruto” to even “Genshin Impact”. Some of them the cosplays were really good and you could see all the effort people had put into them.

We spent most of the first 2 hours just walking around seeing what was happening where and what the convention had to offer. At around 2 pm my friend and I decided to split up from Nathan since we were planning on listening to some concerts while Nathan just wanted to walk around. My friend and I went to grab something quick to eat and then headed to the stage room. It was quite a long queue to get it, but thankfully a lot of people were leaving from the previous concert. We sat down and then the shows began. We had to turn put our phones on airplane mode during performances so it wouldn’t interfere with the microphones.

First up was Ito. He was really good and such a fun performance vibe to him. He talked about how happy he was to be back at Animagic. Second preformed was Renoa who is apparently internat known. She had a lot of “Sword art online” songs. She was also really good and she also had full house (aka all seat were taken). For our last performance was my friends favorite and her reason to come here, Yuki. She is not a singer, but a composer who travels together with her singers. She was the last concert of the entire event. It was also her birthday so the crowd sang “Happy Birthday” to her. Which made her even tare up in happiness. It was really sweet.

After the concert it was already 5 pm so we spent the last 2h looking around some more. My friend and I had apparently missed some more merch on the lower floor, so we headed there first. I ended up getting an “Anya” figure form the anime “Spy Family” and Nathan got himself an “Emya” one from the Fate series. I got myself a new bag that was “Harry Potter” themed. Last thing I got was a smaller Nezuko key chain. My friend got herself a figurereen as well figure. When we were all done with out shopping it was almost 7 pm which was when the event ended, so we just headed to the car.

The rest of the day was just spent eating, walking dogs and playing more games. Our vacation is now slowly coming to an end.

We had a lot of fun yesterday. We went did some gaming, got a hair cut, ate really good sushi and ended the evening with some bowling.

The started just like the other ones. Wake up and first walk the dogs. When we came back we decided to try to play “Plate Up” with the three of us. It was a really great hit. You and your friends need to run a restaurant. Do everything from making the fun, then serving it while keeping the place semi clean. We split up our responsibilities. I wad the waiter, my friend was the cleaner/second waiter and Nathan was the cook. I might have caused us to loose a couple of time, but all in good fun….right? 😅

Later in the afternoon a friend came over to cut our hairs (me and Nathan’s). I got rid of all my damaged edge and cut it down to a bit longer than shoulder length. Nathan got his really short. It had been at least 6 months since we both had a haircut if not longer. After we were both done we played some more games before we headed out for the evening/ night.

Our first stop was a sushi place where I had been the first time I came to visit. They have really great quality sushi. My friend and I got like 3 dishes to share. Nathan ordered two things for himself since he don’t avocado. They served it all on one plate and it looked really fancy. We were quite hungry since we finished the plate around 10 min later. It was SOO GOOD!! We had a small MacFlurry for dessert.

After the sushi it was time to get some exercise. We headed to the bowling area that wasn’t that far away. Got our fancy shoes on and started our round. We ALL MISSED our first shot, but we were all very rusty. Then the really game started.

Nathan won the first round, followed by my friend and then I got last place. For the second round my friend got first, Nathan second and me third, but both me and Nathan scored a strike each which meant we got a free shot since that was a deal they going on. For our third round we only had around 20 min left so we decided to do a little challenge. We had to try pick random ball and couldn’t have the same ball on both our first and second throw. Nathan got another strike, but I was in the lead for the most part and could potentially won if we got to play it out.

It was really fun. My friend and I were on the same team in the sense that we both wanted Nathan to loose, cuz he is too good. We sat and gestured our hands to like shove the ball to either side so it would fall in the gutter and he would miss. It seemed like it worked a lot of times which made it that more funnier.

We ended around 23:30 and wasn’t home until around midnight. We played some more before heading to bed since today we are heading to Animagic which I’m really excited about. It’s apparently one of the biggest conventions in Germany with that theme. So expect a lot of photos.

Yesterday was the most active day so far with a lot of walking around. We snakes, lizards, trolls and so many people. By the time we got back my feet were hurting so badly.

After we had eaten we jumped on the tram and headed straight down town. Our first stop was “Oslo reptile park”. We had to walk a bit from the station to get to the location, but we found it eventually. In there they had so many different creatures. They had lizards, frogs, turtles, chameleons, geckos, snakes and even a caiman. There were also some non reptiles such as monkeys, cockroaches and spiders. It was all quite interesting even though the place wasn’t that big of a place. It took us around 30 min to go through the place.

When that was done we headed down to the tourist shop. Here we were looking for magnets that Nathan’s neighbours had requested. They wanted ones that had a city on them together with the name. Since they are collecting them and they did not have anyone from Norway. We did only find one of Oslo and the rest was just Norway in general.

The next place we headed to was back to the sushi place. This time I had the grilled aubergine and fried rice with salmon together with some sushi plates from the belt. Nathan did not have sushi and ordered beef teriyaki, fried chicken and squid and 2 Oreo cakes. We tried to not eat too much since it was later than planned and we still had dinner plans at home.

When we were done eating we headed towards the candy store. We have one called “Yummy heaven” and it’s the best and biggest place to get candy in Oslo. We got two bags each with our own pick and mix selection and it wasn’t that expensive, which was a bit surprising. For our last stop we got some bubble tea. I had one a Lychee black tea with raspberry bubbles and Nathan had green tea with both bubbles and jelly. Then it was finally time to head home.

Upon arriving back we just both plonked down on the bed and proceeded to relax before dinner. On todays menu was lamb served with roasted potatoes, carrots, mushroom and peas with some gravy. It all tasted really nice, but my stomach was still a bit full from the sushi. Nothing more happened that evening since it was already quite late by the time we had finished dinner.

Fast forward till today. The only thing on the agenda was a small walk around a close by lake. Nathan and I went all the way around while my dad only walked about half of it. Since we finished way earlier we sat down playing smash or pass on the people passing by. It was also raining on and off all the time. The rest of the day was just spent to chill, enjoy the sunny weather and continue to rest our feet.

On today’s adventure Nathan and I visited the technology and science museum, which is a place I used to go to a lot when I was younger. It was really fun and I felt like a little child again.

We started today really nice and slow. Didn’t have lunch until 2 pm and then we headed out because it was suppose to rain later that day and we didn’t want to get caught in that. We headed to the tram station and after a few min, the tram arrived and we headed over to our destination.

Today we visited the Technology and Science museum. The entire experience was really nostalgic and it was fun to see what they had done to the place. They still had some of the old exhibitions, but then also a lot of new ones that I have never seen. We tried to visit everything. My favourite was the so called playing room where they had a lot of interactive games such as a binary game where you used binary to type different words such as “cat” or your own name. Nathan did one for himself and then one for me. There was also a morse game where you had to get as many words as possible correct by using morse code. Nathan got 52 out of 56 with an accuracy of 0.69.

We stayed right up until the museum closed. Then we headed down to the city to get some sushi, because there is a place there that serves it on a conveyer belt which Nathan enjoys. We did not eat too much since we were still having dinner at home. So afterwards we just headed back home again.

I hosted movie night in my discord server where we watched “Free Guy”. It was a really funny movie which didn’t come as a huge surprise since it’s staring Ryan Reynolds. The movie lasted for around 2 hours. Then it was time for dinner and tv time with my family before heading for bed.

Tomorrow we are doing more of a city day. We will be getting some bubble tea, visit the best candy store and our only so called comic and board games store, get a magnet for Nathan’s neighbours that they have requested and get some more sushi. We are now half way through our Norway trip.

Today we visited an art museum that was about WW2. The place wasn’t big and had quite some nice paintings. We did have some problem getting to it.

We woke up quite late compared to the other days. Had a late lunch at 2 pm and then we left around 4 pm. The drive wasn’t that long. We did have some trouble getting there because there wasn’t a clare sign on where to go, but after a couple min we manged to find the right place to park the car. The place was called “Roseslotte”

The museum started with bunch of portrait paintings from people who had a big impact during the war, but were never recognised for it. They all had a sentence explaining what their occupation followed with what their role were during the war. Further I’m it was more general paintings from the war. It was a lot of information and overall a really good exebition.

After we were done at “Roseslottet” we headed over to the restaurant where we were eating. Ut was on another hilltop and the it’s called “Ekerberg Restaurant”. It’s quite popular for both being good, but also quite expensive.

We got a really nice table with a great view. I had lamb of the day, Nathan had the fish of the day, my mother had shrimp salad on toast and my dad had mussels with bread. Almost everyone was satisfied with their food. Nathan was a bit disappointed with his portion. He got a really small fish filet for the price. The taste was also kind of bland. Thankfully, there was cake at home.

Spent the evening just chilling, eating cake and watching some more TV. Tomorrow Nathan and I are heading to the technology and science museum.

Today was our first day in Norway as part of our 2 week vacation. We started off quite chill to then proceed to have quite an awkward dinner service.

Yesterday nothing much happened. We did actually managed to reach everything according to plan. Zero delays which was really nice for a change. We arrive at my family around 12:30 am and then proceeded to just go strait to bed.

Today we slept in till noon due to us both being quite exhausted from the trip. We had scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, potato’s and toast. We just talked and got to know each other a bit better while eating. The rest was just spent on relaxing.

At around 6 pm we headed out and took the car down to the city where we took a small walk over the Opera house. There I showed Nathan the view from the top while pointing out different places in the city, and then we headed out to “Sørenga” which is a place that started out as a typical apartment place, but has then gotten a lot of restaurants and places to swim for both locals and tourist.

We found a place to eat dinner and this is where all the shit went down. We first had a small problems with ordering drinks where the waiter would take one order and then just walk off before we got to share ours. Then when we were ready to order the food a new waiter came to serve us. My mother ordered two starters instead of a main course, my father and Nathan both went with Tagliatelle with mussels and I had Fettuccini with scampi.

So our first problem accrued when the waiter brought out both my my mothers dishes because she had forgotten to inform them that they were suppose to be a replacement for main course, then it was also the fact that she got it at the same time because she also forgot to tell them that she wanted them after each other. The second problem was the fact that it took us SO long until the rest of us got our food. At some point we asked when it will arrive and the waiter said 8 min, but waited for at least 30 min. The food itself was quite good at least. Not really worth the waiting time, but it could have been worse.

After our small awkward dinner Nathan and I decided to take a small walk around the tip of the half island just to see what was out there. By the time we arrive back at the restaurant my parents had already started moving towards the car. We did catch up eventually after I had spent some time sitting a fake dolphin on the playground.

Now we are just chilling and relaxing our feet. For tomorrow we are heading up early to drive to a sculpture park a bit further away. The day itself was alright. I don’t blame the waiters at all for what happened during dinner. My mother did forget to inform them, plus they are not the ones responsible for how long the kitchen takes to prepare the food.