Lost in Larvik?

After my mom and grandma left, I was absolutely exhausted, but luckily we had a break from school that week, so I had time to relax and reflect.  I mainly lounged around, did laundry, and somehow managed to accomplish NO schoolwork...somehow.  Friday (October 8th) Anette and I invited Susanne over for dinner.  We made a Chinese Wok, which turned out really yummy, and had ice cream for dessert!  Anette and I are still working on our rice making skills though, but we'll get there ;)

On Saturday, we decided that we wanted to get out of Oslo.  Filip was once again our tour guide, and our floormate Henny joined us on our bus trip.  We rode for about 2 hours, to Tønsberg, which is south of Oslo.  It is a very old city with lots of character.  We walked along the sea and saw LOTS of jellyfish :) ...got some postcards, which took Anette FOREVER to choose, saw old homes, and what is left of a castle there from the year 871.  It was a really beautiful and relaxing city.  I had my first McDonald's so far in Norway, and we ate by the water...only to get realllly uncomfortable when  the seagulls started to swarm!  Anette tried to make healthy choices, but totally crumbled when she saw our yummy burgers and fries, so she ended up going BACK to McDonald's...hilarious!  


When we decided we weren't quite ready to head back to Oslo, that the day was beautiful, and that we were only "30 minutes" from Filip's hometown, we decided to catch another bus to Larvik.  Wellll...we got the bus that went through the countryside, and not on the highway, so it ended up being a 2 hour bus ride.  Quite disappointing, haha, but it was an adventure!!  We made it worth it.  We saw a few sights, breathed in the fresh air, and ended up at a delicious Chinese restaurant.  So good to eat some REAL FOOD because more often than not at home I don't make myself a real meal...  Then we had to find our way back to Oslo.  After asking a few people and finding a bus schedule, we realized that the last bus had left over 2 hours earlier, whoops!  So we bought more expensive train tickets that left pretty late at night and headed to a gas station to entertain ourselves for a bit. 

Then we had to stay awake the whole train ride home so we wouldn't miss our stop, even though we were all exhausted after our long day outside.  Luckily we had Henny's I-Pod and had a dance party, even one of the workers on the train joined in a bit, and she was really nice to us every time she came by.  When we finally got back, after 11 pm, Sebastien was so nice to come pick us all up and bring us back to the school.  


It was a fun day, being spontaneous every now and then is interesting!