There were candles along the whole path (Norwegians loooove candles). Sometimes they would be in the river, or they would have colored spotlights on little waterfalls in the river. They had lights in the trees, it was all really beautiful. There were a few little food stands, some dancing groups, old Norwegian music groups, and one place had some fire people. They were burning themselves, blowing fire, laying on nails...etc. Eventually it started raining pretty hard and we started walking faster :) The last show was a really cool reggae-ish band, I wanted to stay longer, but we were all eager to be DRY! We made it home after a long, wet, and hot tram ride.
Friday brought an EARLY class...I will never get used to going to class at 8:45. Nice thing about Concordia: you can choose to NEVER have class before 10:30...which I took full advantage of. But supposing that I will be going to a 9 to 5 full-time internship when I get back to the states, maybe it's good practice? Anyyywho, Friday in class Susanne told me about Oslo Culture Night, where there are different events going on all over the city. Of course I couldn't turn down that invite. So we met up at 5 pm and headed to try some "world food". It ended up being at the Youth For Understanding (YFU, high school international exchange program) office and we were pretty much the only ones not involved with YFU that went. But we had some good food and headed off to another event.
I don't remember the exact order of things, but we saw some interesting things. OH! And all of my shoes here in Norway have holes in them, so my feet were COMPLETELY soaked before we even started doing anything. That led to cold feet all night :( Susanne and Elisabeth are amazing map readers and managed to get us to most of the places we wanted to go. We saw some kids doing circus tricks, sat in the rain and watched a jazz band play (whose lead singer/trumpet player had the least charisma I've ever seen from a front man), did a lot of walking...
We went to the Black Box Theater expecting one thing, and got a COMPLETELY different thing. It was a play about this woman's time spent in a Tibetan Monastery. It was just her...dancing and doing yoga-like moves. It had some music and video along with it...but let's just say it's good we had open minds because WOW it was one of the weirdest performances I've ever seen in my life!! We finally got some hot cocoa at a cafe...Susanne had been whining about it all night, haha. It was reallllly chocolatey and good, and it SHOULD BE for almost 7 dollars! After that we walked to the Oslo Freemasons Temple. This was about 11pm...and I'm so glad we went...it was AMAZING. Absolutely gorgeous. This place was huge, the artwork and furniture were so old and just neat. The Freemasons are something that Mike and I have always been interested in. The secrets, symbolism, and history just blow my mind. Being in a Greek society, I know the feeling, but the fact that so many important people are/have been members is interesting. We asked lots of questions, many of course, they couldn't answer. By the time we left, we had sort of a creepy feeling inside ourselves. Pretty neat experience. 
The rest of the weekend...I just relaxed. I'm such a homebody anyways, it was fine to just chill in my room. It was rainy and cold, and after being outside for two whole nights, I just wanted to stay in and be dry and warm. I also got a package from Mike last week...pictures, Peanut Butter M&M's, oatmeal, Raisinets, awesomeness!! Today I got letters from my Auntie Patty and my LDS sisters, so amazing :) Totally made my day! I am still always missing home a lot! I talked with Cory a lot yesterday, he is in Afghanistan :( ...he said that "even when I get deployed, you still try to follow me". Haha, I guess that's what best friends do! I miss him tons...this is us in SUFU in 2009.
