Chicken

Today we went to visit the chicken that we have been getting our eggs from lately. The belong to our sister in law and we had fun running after them together with our niece.

 we shall call here the chicken whisperer :-)

she sure is not afraid of chicken, even petted one

Norwegian exam

Today I took my Norwegian exam and I think all together it went ok. The written part was easier then I thought and the oral part harder then I thought.... oh well, I will get the results in the beginning of July, we will see.
Wanna see where I took my exam?

Here, at the Ålesund football stadium!

 I was very glad though that my football skills were not tested as part of the exam today :-)

wie man arbeitet...

... so isst man! That is a thing my mom used to say and it means: You eat the same way you work!
Ergo it only makes sense that my hard working man had to eat a lot of food today!

 getting ready for the tourists with our 'lollipops'

well deserved burger

sunny sunday

After a meal with some visitors we enjoyed the beautiful weather on the balcony. We have to make to most of it as long as it lasts, next week it is supposed to be colder again.

haircuts and the city

Today Erlend had to go to work and I had a whole day which had to be used well :-). So after dropping Erlend of at work I did some grocery shopping, made a pasta salad, washed my shoes, cut the hair of my brother in law, my pappa in law and somebody who just happened to be there and needed a hair cut.

Then I went to town, sat at the pier and studied the book of Daniel and Norwegian, then took some pictures around town ... got a weird sun tan, picked up Erlend, drove home, enjoyed pasta salad and grilled chicken with our friends N and D, cut D's hair and how we are watching the England vs. Norway football game. So apart from the Norwegian team getting their backsides kicked by England it has been a good day! :-)

 exam in 4 days, getting nervous...

 so many cool places in this town

 Ålesundet - the place Ålesund got its name from

 please identify the signs of Jugendstil (aka Art Nouveau) displayed in the picture :-) 

 we gave had such beautiful weather here the last days...

... and the flowers are open for it :-)

it is official now...

... we are real tourists guides because we got our ID cards to prove it :-).

watermelon instead of the royals

I was very excited yesterday night when we got a call asking us to work today at Geiranger fjord. Why was I so excited, don't I do that almost every day? Well yes, but there was something special about today...

... because today was the day that the crown prince and the crown princess of Norway were going to be at Geiranger fjord and I do admit, I did think that it would help me in my culture study (yeah, right, that is why :-)) to shake their hands. But we just caught a climbs of them as they drove by us as our bus got there a bit too late. Oh well, dear Håkon and Mette-Marit, we will have to catch up another time :-).

So to ease the pain of disappointment we decided that it was a good day to kill our first watermelon of the season

 Erlend did the honors...

... and it was soooo delicious, perfect snack on a warm (yes, you heard right!) summer day