Week Three!

Week three!

Day 15: June 9th
As today was a holiday (still don't know why, and I have asked some of the family and neither they knew) Jon Andreas (my second uncle) invited me to a Barbecue with the Lange's. It was the first time I had red meat since I arrived in Norway. First my uncle took me for a little sight-seeing through...... We had a very nice time though I felt kind of guilty that everyone has to speak English around me (although, English isn't my first language either).

Writing last week's post.

Day 16: June 10th
Today I met a friend of my mother's who invited me for dinner with her husband, son and her. It was also the first time I took a tram in Norway, because we took one to her home. We met at a Tram stop and waited a couple of minutes for her son to arrive. We had a nice dinner of "sushi" (actually just fish with soy sauce and wasabi).

On my way to the Tram Station I saw this competition of Cross-country skiing (with roller blades). The Norwegians are eager for Winter to start Cross-country skiing (with skis) again.

Day 17: June 11th
Helped Tore on the construction of Gleden.

The progress.

And then he took me to see a sailing competition and we were supposed to cheer for one of Tore's friends, but we couldn't find him with all the sailing boats there.

Some of the sailing boats at the competition.

Day 18: June 12th
Today was the first day of the World Cup! Excited? And what better teams to start it off than Brazil and ...Croatia? Ok, to be fair, they scored the first goal. Anyway, in downtown Oslo they are having this Fotballfesten (translation: "Football Festival") where they have this giant screen and benches to watch the Cup. So I decided to go and check it out. But what I didn't expect was a line two block long of people waiting to get in and see the match. I looked around to see if any relative where in line so I could scoot in, but no. So I thought it would be better to just go home and see the match from there. But on my way to my bike I see that a little bar had a screen outside for people to watch and I stayed there until Croatia shot the first goal and went back home.

Day 19: Friday the 13th!
During the day I help Tore with the construction of the catamaran and at 22:30 I left the house/boat to go see the football match between Chile and Australia in downtown Oslo with started at midnight, but I had to get there an hour early to get in line to go see it. I didn't know that there are so many Chileans in Oslo, because this place was packed with 98% Chileans and 2% Australians. I stayed there until halftime and decided to go home to see the rest.

At the Fotballfesten one hour before the match. Many Chileans as you can see.

They have a good sense of humor at the Fotballfesten.

The Chileans are already chanting for their team even before the match started.

Full moon on Friday the 13th. Coincidence? I think not!

 Day 20: June 14th
I arrived home to see the last 30 minutes of the match and, of course, Chile won.

Around 11 we went on a trip to Holmen on the most beautiful boat I've ever seen (I have to tell Eline and Tore that the Levebåten Marie is actually the most beautiful so I can keep living here). It took the owner 18 years to rebuild since he rescued it from the ocean floor (and it paid off). Since we arrived in Holmen every single person over there looked at the boat in amazement and asked the owners if they could come aboard and touch it.
We stayed there for about 5 hours and then we returned in Raskesara (a sporty-type boat Eline and Tore have). During the trip back, Tore realized that one of the flappers that balance the boat was broken. At 8 o'clock Tore and Eline left to go to a dinner they were invited to. So I just watched some TV and read my book.

Day 21: June 15th
Today Eline and I visited some relatives that invited us for lunch (all of my relatives in Norway are either my second or third uncles/aunts or cousins). We had a time and I was glad to meet new relatives.
Eline let me drive her car (yeah!), so it was the first time I drove an automatic (easy).
After the lunch with the relatives, Eline got the nice idea to go the famous park called "Frogner Park", although the section we visited is know as "Vigelandsanlegget" (translation: "Vigeland installation") which is a big tourist attraction in Oslo. Inside the park there are many sculptures made my Gustav Vigeland and it is the world's largest sculpture park made by a single artist.

Vigeland's Park. You can see many of the scultures and the "Monolitt" (the pillar in the back).