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Leaving Norway on a high note

Yesterday I arrived back home in Belgium fresh from my cousins lovely wedding from the day before. It was an early flight which also meant that I got all of yesterday to do a lot of things.

So let’s start with Saturday shall we. I woke up a bit early, because I had to go down to the shopping center to buy some last moment items including some stockings, a razor, some muesli and I also got a new adhesive strapless bra to try. After I got home I went straight into the shower and then got dressed, which took a while because it was my first time using these type of bra, so I constantly re applied them just to make sure they wouldn’t fall of during the day. I eventually got there.

We left the house at around 1pm, and then we drove to pick my sister and her partner outside of their place. The wedding took place in a nice small church called “Tanum church”. It was the same place as where we had my grandmother’s funeral back in June 2021. We met up with all the other guest and got prepared for the ceremony that started at 2:30pm. Right before it all started they realized that they had actually forgotten the rings, so that moment happend later xD. The bell rang and everyone stood up as my gorgeous looking cousin came walking down the ail. I could hear my mother’s sniffles behind me. The vows were really beautiful (hers a bit more than his) and there was some nice singing. Overall a really nice and short ceremony.

After everything was completed at the church such as mingle and a lots of photo taking, everyone got ready to head to the after party location. It was at this really nice house on top of a small hill with a great view over the docks and the fjord. The bride and groom arrived a bit later and finally got to exchange their rings under a nice white flower arch.

The rest of the night was quite straight forward. I mingled a lot with the guest, we had a great dinner buffet and there were a lot of great speeches during dinner, including my mother’s. Then we mingled some more while enjoying the desserts. They had some cakes, a slushy and soft serve machine. The slushy one was filled with rum and cola and which tasted really nice. At around 9pm the band started playing and we danced until we went home at around 11pm. I went straight to bed as I needed to be up at 6.30am the next day.

That brings us to yesterday! Not a lot happend in the morning. Just took the bus to the airport and went through all the normal stuff until I got onto the plane. We actually left on time, which doesn’t happen often. The trip was also shorter than usual by 30 min. I arrived in Belgium at around 10 am and got to my city around 12. Nathan was waiting for me at the train station and we gave each other a big hug and a small smooch. Then we headed to a smash burger place to have lunch. It was a bit of a walk, but the food was really good and the hiring posters were even better. We headed home quickly after, because Nathan still had band practice at 4pm. I might have fallen off the buss seat on the way home due to some sharp turns xD. Nathan tried to grab me, but he was too late and also too weak to prevent me from falling. I did catch myself my putting my one feet on the floor, but it was quite a funny moment. Especially for the woman sitting across from us.

The rest of the night was just spent on updating everything on my pc and do a small stream, since I missed doing that while I was away.

So this trip was overall a really nice one. Had a lot of fun with the bachelorette party and the wedding. Got to help my mother out with tidying the garage and my dads room and had some nice walks. I always enjoy traveling to Norway, but it does get a bit bored and I do end up missing home after a week, but I enjoyed this trip and next one will probably be around November, when I’m going back for exam.

Hope you all have enjoyed the post and the photo’s and I’ll see you guys in the next one ❤

Rounding up my vacation

Today is my last day here in Norway. It’s the day of my cousins wedding and then tomorrow morning I’ll be flying home. This has been a really nice trip. Being able to help out my mother with some of her chores has been a bit tiring, but I know she needed the extra hands. I am looking forward to come back home to my own place.

Nothing much has happened since the last post, which is why I haven’t written anything. I decided to just mention them all in one longer post, instead on multiple short ones, since a lot of days was just spent chilling or minor events.

My mother was gone last weekend on a girls trip to Sweden, so I got to have the house for myself. It was really nice to both get a little break from mum, but also be able to hang out with my friends that I usually hang out with. We played some games and I got to order kebab for dinner. I ordered for the usual place and to no surprise, it tasted delicious. My mother returned back on Monday and I made dinner for the both of us.

The following week, not much happened. We planted some new flowers on my fathers grave, and picked up my cousins wedding present on Tuesday. On Wednesday we sorted out all my dads cloths and put them in big bags to give to charity and then in the evening my sister and her boyfriend came over for dinner that I was cooking. On Thursday, my mother and I delivered my dads old cloths to Fretex (aka charity) and then we had a nice walk down to Grünerløkka and had a nice dinner. I had some spicy Won tons followed my Crazy Duck.

Yesterday however was a nice day. I made plans to hang out with some of my old friends that I had before moving to Belgium. After meeting my mum in the city to go shoe shopping for the wedding, I hopped on a tram and met my friends in a park close to where one of them lived. Since one of them was recovering from a concussion, we just decided to keep it chill. We tried a lot of different Asian snacks and talked about what has been going on in our life’s for the past years. It was really nice seeing them again and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I’m always a bit nervous when it comes to social gatherings due to my social anxiety, but this was nothing but nice.

Today is the big day so a lot of things will happen. We are scheduled to head out at around noon. I need to run some small errands and then it’s probably just going to go very fast with the wedding ceremony and the after party. I was tasked to take a lot of photos which I’m looking forward to.

So that was basically my last week quickly summed up. As I stated, it’s been a nice trip, but I’m looking forward to be going home. Be back with my boyfriend, my pc, my own bed and back to streaming again.

Fresh prawns and great company

Yesterday we had some guest coming over and thanks to the lovely weather, we were able to sit outside and enjoy a delicious dinner.

The day started as any other day, late and relaxing. I continued watching my new series “Wednesday” before I went up for some light breakfast. Not much was on the agenda besides just preparing for the guests that were arriving at 6pm. I helped my mother out in the garden trimming some of the overgrown grass. After that it was just waiting until the guests arrived

They arrived right on time at 6pm, and one of them brought their lovely little dog. I have met them all before since they are my mother’s girlfriends since I was little. We sat outside in beautiful sunlight and started talking about all kinds of things. They updated me on their life and I updated them on mine. I told them about the boy’s concerts and how the weather had been in Belgium over the summer. We sat outside together with some nice drinks until dinner was ready.

Today we were having prawns and bread together with a side salad and some avocado. It’s quite simple, but also very popular in Norway especially during summer time. We decided to eat outside since the weather was so nice. So we ate and talked more about life.

After dinner I headed down stairs, because the guest was here primarily because it was their monthly book club meeting. So when they started talking about the book that they had read, I decided to excuse myself and head down for the night.

I spent the rest of my night talking and playing some games with my boyfriend, before heading to bed. Even though the guests were mostly friends of my mums, it was really nice to catch up and hang out with them during the evening and the food was really delicious.

Long walk with delicious food in between.

The Norway trip is still going good. I have been quite busy ever since the bachelorette party this weekend. It’s been a lot of helping my mother cleaning out the garage and going on walks. Yesterday we took a nice one and had a delicious dinner.

We started the day a bit later than usual, since I was still recovering from my headache. Our first order of business was to clean more out of the garage and bringing it to a place we call “the dump”. Thanks to our combined efforts, we have been able to clean out half of the garage in just a couple of days. This has been really nice, but also a bit tiering. After our trip to “the dump”, we headed to a small shopping centre to just do some grocery shopping for todays get together. We got 3kg of shrimps, some salmon and chicken. When we were done with the small shopping round, we headed home and had a small, very late lunch.

At around 6pm, we were ready for our daily walk. We decided to walk down along the river that goes through the city. It’s a walk that I used to do a lot with my dad, both before and after he got sick. It’s a really nice and easy walk and it was fun to see all the changes that has happened along the river bend since I walked it last. It sadly began to rain not long after we started our walk. It wasn’t that bad compared to how much we get in Belgium. We walked all the way down to food court, which I have been at plenty of times. We decided to eat at a place called “Døgnvil” since the court was about to close when we arrived.

“Døgnvil” is quite famous for their burgers, so I decided to go with a classic Cheddar and bacon, with some simple fries on the side. My mother was drawn toward one with a salmon in it, and she got a really nice piece too. It tasted really delicious and it felt really nice after the walk. When we were done eating we headed back up the path.

I was hoping we would catch the tram, since I was feeling a bit tired and it was already close to 10 pm, but my mother just kept walking until we were basically at the crossroad bellow our house. Then she decided to the tram and I decided to walk the last bit, since I didn’t want to spend € 3 for 1 tram stop, when it only takes me 10 min to walk up. When I got home I just headed straight downstairs and relaxed for the rest of the night since I was a tad annoyed that we ended up walking all the way home.

Back to Norway, in time for the party

Friday I travelled back home to Norway for 2 weeks, so that I can attend both my cousin’s bachelorette party and her wedding. I arrived quite late and just got a short sleep before it was up and get ready for an exciting weekend.

Friday was mostly spent on traveling, so not much to tell about that day. The only thing was that I arrived at the airport 1h earlier than I was planning to, but better too early rather than too late. Everything else went smoothly all the way home.

The big day was yesterday. I had to wake up at 7 am to shower and get ready for my mum to drive me and my sister to my cousin’s place. There we met up with all the other guest, and received a goodie bag with various items. We all got a nice T-shirt, a bracelet, a pink cowboy hat and some snacks and drinks.

After everyone had arrived it was off to Tønsberg and the house we had rented for the weekend. It took us about 1h to arrive to the house, and we had to leave as soon as we had unloaded the car. Our next stop was the trotting track where we had arranged it so that my cousin got try out trotting racing for herself (with supervision). We were a bit late, so the horse had been waiting for almost 30 min, but it went well and the bride to be enjoyed herself a lot. We stood on the side line with drinks and cheered. When they had ran a couple of rounds it was off and ready to head into the city for some lunch.

We ended up sitting in the park and had small games and quiz (which I did terrible on) before we ordered some pizza for lunch. We all shared stories and just got to know each other before heading on to the next activity.

Our next stop was Escape room. We got put into two teams of 6 and were given to different rooms. Our was about us being kidnapped on our way home from a night out. We were actually so bad that we needed several hints and even with those we barely made it out in time. We had like 1.5 minute left on the clock, but it was a lot of fun to try and fail solving all the puzzles. The other team did much better than us, but they apparently also had two members who were very excited and active.

For the rest of evening we just had dinner by the docks at a place called “Haveriet”, where I ordered a chicken tagliatelle with Smirnoff of Ice raspberry. My cousin even got a free beer from a guy at another table. We headed out to our last place for the evening afterwards. Where we played some shuffle board and got some more drinks.

My sister and I headed back to the house at 10pm already, because she had a headache and even though a part of me wanted to stay with the girls, I also wanted to make sure that my sister got home safely. We both went to bed when we got to the house. I did hear that the other girls were up until around 3 am just party and drinking.

Today we just woke up, had a small breakfast and then just prepared to leave. We discussed in the car about how the evening went, and we all agreed that even though it was a really fun day + night, the fact that one of the guest had her baby, dog and husband with her, which meant that she constantly needed to keep tabs on that. The fact that her behaviour made people a bit annoyed also kind of ruined the night. She and some of the guests just up and left earlier, without saying goodbye or cleaning up the room they had slept in. So we all came to the conclusion that she probably shouldn’t have joined or only joined for part of it and then gone home.

The bride to be did have a lot of fun, despite that little piece of drama.

After we got back to my cousins place, we just said goodbye to the remaining guest and my mum came and picked me up. The rest of the day we just went for a walk, changed some light bulbs, visited my dads grave and had a nice dinner. We were suppose to buy new ones, but forgot that things are closed on Sundays.

So that was the end of this weekend. Tomorrow we are planning on doing some tidying in the garage and then probably go for another walk. So far, I’m enjoying the trip.