there really is a moose there. So we made it to the chapel and I even though I made sure I packed PJs to sleep in, I didn’t think to bring a sleeping bag or blanket (luckily they had extras). I guess I didn’t get enough cooking from the cooking class because some how I volunteered myself to help cook dinner. After I began cooking I asked what I was cooking, but the lady in charge of dinner wasn’t very fluent in English, so she said I was making a “Spanish Dish.” Later I found out it was a stew/casserole; it was soupy with pieces of chicken in it and got poured on top of rice. So after my three course meal from the cooking class I had 1.5 servings of the Spanish thing. Of course I couldn’t not try it, even though I wasn’t hungry, I did make it after all and I don’t get meat very often (especially free meat, I bought six pieces (750g or l.65 lbs) of chicken a few weeks ago for $12.96 and that was on sale too, but it was boneless-skinless, so of course it’ll be more expensive). So the next morning I had Norwegian breakfast (bread with chocolate, cream cheese, boiled egg, …), I don’t know how I was even able to make room for it because I was still full from dinner. Then we had a flag raising ceremony and everyone sang the Norwegian National Anthem. Then we began making waffles out of the batter we prepared the night before. Børge said they were expecting 300 people (which is about how many showed up) so we were going to make 600 waffles. Since, I’ve never made waffles before I decided that now would as good a time as any to learn, so I grabbed some batter and made about 100 waffles. As you can see by the title, we had 15 waffle irons (I had three) and we finished in two hours, so that is 1 waffle very 12 seconds. You’d think that I’d be sick of waffles, but of course after the church service I had three waffles with jelly and brown cheese plus a piece of cake with marzipan frosting (though after the marzipan, I couldn’t eat another bite). The church service was led by the Prime Minister from two years ago, Kjell Magne Bondevik. It was all in Norwegian, but I had a friend from the Christian Union I’m a part of translate for me. However, I did sing along to the songs. After the service we had waffles and cake, Børge interviewed some people involved with the chapel throughout the years and we watched a movie about the chapel that was made in 1969. All in all, it was a really nice weekend, but the best part (besides becoming an expert waffle maker) came on the way home. I walked back to the T-bane station at Frognerseteren with two others who walked in; we walked right past Tryvannsstua, which was the down-hill slope that I almost fell over while skiing a few weeks ago. It really wasn’t all that big, but was really steep. Since it was late in the afternoon we got to walk during sunset and by the time we got to the T-Bane station we got a really nice view of Oslo and the Oslo Fjord at dusk. It is probably one of the best spots to get an aerial view of the city.Pictures from the weekend:
Walking to Frognerseteren:
Tryvannsstua:
Riding the T-Bane:
Still Riding the T-Bane:
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