Honey, I’m Home…..

Finally back in Norway and I’ll begin updating my blog again.  I’m still really tired so this won’t be a big post right now but I just wanted to touch base with anyone who might be following this and catch you up to speed on life here at Eventyrhus…

Two and a half weeks went super fast in Texas but we were busy a lot of the time, it was just the last few days there wasn’t a lot to do, but it was good just being together with Dad and Betsy and her family. My gang was all looking forward to getting home but the toughest part would be leaving our family in Texas and it hung over us like a dark cloud those last days.

Monday morning we got up around 6AM and headed to Dallas. Said our goodbyes and boarded the plane around 1 in the afternoon. What was suppose to be a 3 hour and 6 minute flight turned into 6.5 hours. We circled over Philadelphia in what seemed like forever waiting to get clearance to land but after waiting and waiting our pilots said we’d be diverting to Baltimore to refuel and await approval to land at Newark. We were instructed to contact Continental’s customer service if we had connecting flights we might miss due to this diverted landing (bad weather in Newark was the reason they told us for not being able to land) I called customer service and got some Ol’ Bitty who said there was a flight going to London at 10PM but if she rebooked me we’d have to pay the differences. I said why should we pay when it’s not our fault the plane was delayed? She said bluntly that it wasn’t their fault that the weather was bad! The other passengers told me to ask what our options were when we got to the airport in Newark. Around 9:30PM (Eastern time) we arrived in Newark and our plane to Oslo had left at 8:50. We were instructed to go to Customer Service which had a HUGE line of passengers already there when we got there. When we finally got up to the counter we were told that we couldn’t catch a new plane until 7:50 the following evening arriving in Oslo at 9:35AM on Wednesday. They’d put us up in a hotel for the night and gave us food coupons for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

So out we went to wait on the shuttle to the hotel- when it finally came and we loaded up and got to the hotel it was almost 2AM. I asked if the hotel room had a roll away we could get for Thomas or if there was a couch in the room- there wasn’t- which meant that one of us would have had to sleep on the floor since there were just two beds. So we got another room and kept the reciept thinking we’d ask at customer service the next day for a refund.

After a somewhat restless night of sleeping we got up at 8:30 and laid around the room until almost 11 and went down to the Deli in the hotel lobby for breakfast which was served all day long. Some how on the way in we managed to not take note of these…

It wasn’t until we were ordering breakfast and gulping hard at the price of pancakes that the kids wanted- 23,95!!! When the waitress mentioned the girls might want to share their pancake because it was “kinda” big…Thomas wanted chocolate chip pancakes so he ordered that- at 19 bucks…Stig and I ordered a western omlett which we were told we might want to share also…thinking we’d just order more if we were hungry we sent the waitress off with our order…imagine our surprise when she came back with these…

Click photo to see them larger- sorry for the poor quality, these were taken with Stig’s cell phone…I swear there had to be a dozen eggs in that omelette!!! And NO, those pancakes were not finished and neither was that omelette…despite honest efforts..;-)) Right about the time our breakfast came out the people next to us ordered a slice of chocolate cake and out came a cake piece with at least ten layers (taken right out of that cake fridge) and they laughed and we laughed…gee- and we wonder why Americans are overweight??? To be honest though, this American has never seen such portions before and as my Dad said, “what was the point?”

Isabella is still pregnant, we’re expecting pups any day now, Stig is out in the garage putting together a puppy box for me. I think Isabella is waiting for this and then they will come. I felt them move this morning, was so sweet…after an x-ray that was taken Monday there is for sure 6 babies there, possibly 7, as we saw a body but not the head and if we are really lucky there is an 8th hiding there somewhere too, but for sure 6 and no more then 8, which is fine..a nice size litter for Isa and us…I’ll post more soon when they come and we get caught up on sleep…

Until next time my friends…