Norway is beautiful. The sun is so bright, kind of like California. The only big difference is that no one has air conditioning....so instead of sitting inside with your nice lemonade, you're baking inside the houses or you go outside and get sun burned. Yesterday, we met up with Aaron's cousin Juaquim. They played a mean trick on me at lunch. After eating a really nasty looking burger, they both told me it was horse meat. I had to take some medicine to get my body to not throw up. We went to the church that is the pride of Norway....it is buried over a Saint. And no buildings can be taller than this church. We also visited the crown jewels. I learned that the name Carl probably came from this region of the world as there were 3 King Carls.
We picked up Freda, Aaron's grandmother from Inger Isaksen's house. Inger is Freda's sister in law. Inger's house was filled with antiques and polished silver. There were many porcelin plates on the wall and little porcelin figurines of couples in love on the tables. It reminded me a bit of a mix between a piano teacher and my grandmother....lol. Freda was very excited to see us. Especially Aaron....it is quite strange to hear Freda speak Norweigan because I am so used to having her speak English.
Right now, Trondheim is having a huge music festival so everyone is out partying on holiday and nice. We went to Aaron's relatives house and it was the most breathtaking view. I met the original "Christina Isaksen" and she was really excited that I was going to have the same name as her. Everyone was really welcoming. When the sun was starting to set(10:00 PM) Aaron, myself, Juaquim, Ingrid(his girlfriend), and Daniel (Juaquim's older brother) went out for drinks. We were there until last call....it was still slightly light in the sky though.....at 12:30. What do the Norweigans do when it's dark all winter?
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