Last Easter in Aussieland

"Easter is here, and school is sat aside for a good ten days. We had an easy start on Thursday (Skjaertorsdag - thats the last day of school before the holidays here) where Lene and myself bought lots of lollies and watched The Lion King and heaps of friends episodes".

Now Easter is over, I'm back at school and exam timetables are released. This semester is getting closer to the end. I've even bought my ticket home to Norway.

Good Friday was spent at the city beach, Southbank.

Hairdressing at Southbank

Batman/superman came to say hi

At night we went to a restaurant in Southbank to celebrate Henriettes 22nd. We had brought some "classy" wine and champagne (passion pop), as thats all we were allowed to bring. We continued on to a pool party after we were full (mett in Norwegian, not drunk!) and happy. There we ended up in the pool of course. We went home early to make sure we didn't get a urinary track infection. But going home doesn't mean the party has to stop. We continued with facebooking, goon, cat-hunting and chips at home.

Passion POP

Tom with his new facial hair....

Frenchies

Saturday, we once again took our bikinis for a swim at Southbank. Later,our old house arranged an Easter Break Party in their back yard. There were heaps of people, lots of goon and a good time.

It resulted in a Sunday in bed which was great! It's the first time in ages I've just slept and done nothing, and felt good about it.

Today, ANZAC day, I decided to let the inner housewife come out. First I cleaned the kitchen/living room, then Silje and I went to look for a laundromat in West End. Our washing machine doesnt work, and thats not good when we are going on holidays in a few days. It turned out a laundromat isnt that easy to find. So after walking around the main street of west end with our dirty cloths basket, someone told us it was the other direction. Great, so we started walking. I like these self-service washing places; it gives you an excuse to read a book!

After almost finishing two assignments, and three Friends episodes later, I started on dinner for the kids. Emilia and her friend, Tina, spent the day at Surfers, so I thought I should impress with my amazing cooking skills.

Now I'm seriously exhausted being a housewife. I can't believe people do this every day. I'm definitely getting a maid/butler when I at one point grow up.

Ida

The End

The talented Master Chef

Ended up going to the GP yesterday after I told my mamma about my meeting with the bug. She got spastic and left me with no choice but promising to go to the doctor as soon as I woke up. So once again I put my shoes on and went "to see the Wizard of Oz".

As I was waiting on of the many homeless people in West End came in who is also a drug addict.

"I need to see the doctor"

"I'm sorry, but there are no appointments available for another hour"

"I need to see the doctor now!"

"Im sorry, you'll have to wait"

"But I'm in real danger"

"Ok, sit down and wait. I'll see what I can do"

"But I need to go now. I'm in REAL danger. I need to go to the hospital."

"I'll see if the nurse is available. Please sit down and wait."

"I'm in real danger: I'm a ghost!"

She got in with the nurse, and I haven't seen her in the streets today. Poor lady! But she definitely made my morning.

As with my toe, she said it was most likely a spider and it will take a few weeks for it to dissapear. Nothing dangerous though as the venom is already inside me, and I'm still alive. Halleluja for that!

Ida

bug life in pictures

Took some photos of my bug bite.

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Bug continuation...

My foot is enormous! It started inching again last night, and now its swollen and beautiful. And starting to get blue and it is kind of painful. Don't worry, Ill keep you up to date on what happens next with my dearest bugs.

I got an email from California state university San Fransisco today. It seems like they want me to start there, so I'm easily persuaded and are moving there in August.

In San Fran they have a red bridge, trams, nice houses and architecture, big hills...

The city has less than 1Mill people, is located on the middle of the Californian coast on the West side of the states.

Thea is also moving to the US. this autumn to do a high school exchange. She doesn't know where she will end up yet, but last time we spoke she wanted to go to Arizona.

Hopefully we can meet over there, and maybe travel in the end together.

Ida

Bug life!

Bug story #1:Bugs have seem to hunt me lately. Yesterday morning a massive spider met me as I entered the bathroom. Hey, hello and good morning! I sprayed it with bug spray and all of a sudden it was gone. Turned out it came out again a bit later when Linn came out of the shower.

Bug story #2: Last night a massive cockroach decided to enter my room and hide. Since I only have a temporarily floor there are lots of gaps everywhere at the moment. So he went into one gap, and came out of another, and I jumped around like a crazy person with my favorite new bug spray. I got him out in the end, after he had been in all the gaps and high on the walls.

Then five minutes later, a new one came in. Same story with that one, except I newer found him in the end....

Bug story #3: This morning I had plenty of time, so I walked to uni. Bad idea! I was attacked by an enormous little something that bit me harder than nothing I've experienced before. The needle was still stuck in my toe after AND I was bleeding. Dramatic! I even almost kicked my shoe on the road. My dear toe swelled up immediately, and my foot got numb. You might have heard that there are many venomous animals in Australia. Well, thats what went through my head. And after I've studied all this physiology and stuff, I started analyzing the "situation": I once again had to pay the doctor a visit, I would faint and be brought to the hospital in an ambulance. There I would die....

Of course this didn't happen. I got to uni told my friends about my very dramatic walk to uni. Christina gave me some gel to put on and after one hour it didn't hurt any more, and after 2 hours the swelling was gone. So much for nothing!

As I got home today, I got some really exciting news. Cecilie is moving in here tomorrow. Could it get any better?! Definitely not! I called her and gave her the great news, and she sounded really happy about it too. So now we will be one more Norwegian here in "The Princhester".

Ida

Xmas in April

I definitely have the sweetest and best family in the world. Yesterday they had shipped me a big parcel filled with all the amazing things you can imagine. I finally got my oncey back, some of my favorite dresses I left (not on purpose) in Norway, bikini and much more cloths. Not that I REAAAALLY needed more of them. My mum, aunts and grandma had also written me a recipe book with all their best recipes. I also got rice porridge, Norwegian chocolate and spread (liverwurst/leverpostei, brown cheese and makrell i tomat - my favourites).

Thanks so much, you are the BEST!

Ida

Cruisin around brisbane in swim suits

ASNA Scavanger hunt 2011! Shouldn't say more, but that would be kind of boring.

We, Linn, Kia, Emilia and myself (and Anna later) woke up early to start putting together our lovely costumes "Charter feber", packed our stuff and met Cecilie and Cecilie at Southbank.

A lot of people wanted a piece of us. "OMG, we need to document this as our Australian experience!" ANd, of course, we're just happy to help...

Eggs, flour, water and apple = apple pie?

We all needed a nap before the first post

The first post was at Musgrave park where all the girls had to throw egg towards me and I had to catch them...without the egg breaking, of course. Easier said than done! In the end I was covered in eggs. Then I had to take a bite of an apple floating in a bowl of water. EASY! I was prepared with swimming goggles on. When I had the bite, I could start searching for an eater egg in a BIG bowl of flour. That was NOT easy! I ended up covered in flour from top to toe. Mixing flour and water is not smart either. I still have glue in my hair. But luckily we had to take some wet photos, and the West end pool was next.

Food is important for hard working girls

Post 2

In between the posts we had to take photos to get extra points.

In wolloongabba three new team members got tested. Cecilie, Linn and Cecilie had to get into a plastic bag, jump to a pole, then spin around it ten times, runt to a chair where Millie fed them with beer. Then back to the start, grab a bite of an apple floating in water and at last find a easter egg.

Upstairs two new team members had to play video games.

In between

We stopped by Cecilies house before we continued towards Kangaroo Point. There's lots that can be done to entertain one self.

All you need is undies, a cloth line and a trolley...and of course a blown up palm tree.

Blind date

Cecilie and Millie got blind and attached to each other. Then they had to to many things with the rest of us guiding them. Cecilie (the other one) crashed a wedding a bit further away in the part. By crashing I mean passed out in the night gown in the middle of the party.

Break 1 - Cecilie

Wedding crashers 1

Break 2 - Cecilie

Our next stop was the Botanical gardens in the City.

Here we had to make a show for the leaders there, and find some randoms as audience. We did macarena and were really synchronized. The grand finale was me posing and getting an egg smashed in my forehead. Nice price!

Back to the best end

The last post, but far from boring. "Make the longest possible cloth line", so we stripped. We also gave sex education to the leaders. It's just too important, and he didn't know how babies are made.

In action

All in all, it was an awesome day. We took a lot of pictures, and didn't even get lost. We didn't win the actual scavenger hunt, but we won the overall best pictures, and the best costume. Woho, so now I'm going skydiving...

The others came after a while and wanted to look like us.

We just got $20 each to spend in the bar. And, yes, we did take advantage of that.