24

So it was my birthday yesterday. :) About 100 people congratulated me on facebook, which was cosy, unexpected and weird, all at once. And Rein was here during the weekend, which was nice. He brought me presents from his parents, and from his grandparents on both sides of the family. I got a book about Gudbrandsdalen, a beautiful porcelain platter, two mugs and 500nok. I got two presents from my friends aswell; a giftcard to be used at Lush and a glass of "natrium" ;p Haha. Rein had made me bricks for my newly-learnt tablet-weaving (based on the Oseberg-findings) and a needle-holder made from  reindeer-horn. <3

Yesterday we went to the art-gallery to look at some Astrup & Dahl-paintings.

J.C. Dahl - Valley in Valdres

Nikolai Astrup - Kari fra Sunde

Nikolai Astrup - Marsmorgen

Photo from the gallery, don't remember. JC Dahl.

Photo from the gallery, don't remember. JC Dahl.

Photo from the gallery, don't remember, but it's the old Bergen. JC Dahl.

Nikolai Astrup - Revebjeller

Other artists worth checking out from the Norwegian National-romanticism includes i.e. Theodor Kittelsen, Hans Gude, Adolph Tidemand and August Cappelen.

Soria Moria - Theodor Kittelsen

Theodor Kittelsen - Svartedauden

Theodor Kittelsen - Sjøtrollet

Brudeferden i Hardanger - Hans Gude og Adolph Tidemann

Hans Gude - Vinterettermiddag

Afterwards, we went to Inside and ate dinner, and then we had chocolatefondant and wine at Spesial. A friend stopped by to say hi, before Rein & I continued to the cinema to watch Prometheus, which was awesome.



And I'm looking forward to going to Høvringen with Rein next weekend! :D

Stone- & bronze-age day!

Today was the last day with Rein here. I've been sick all week; throat, sinuses, eyes you name it. Felt abit better today though, so we figured we'd go to Hordamuseet and check out the stone- & bronze-age day! Interesting seeing something else than viking/medieval ;) This is also the place where they arrange Bjørgvinmarknad every year, so it brought back memories from last year's market-season ^^ Looking forward to summer! 

Melting ore

 Telling the ancient art of pitch-extraction to a very young knight from medieval times ;)

Summer-feel!

Showing how to make weapons out of flint. 

We then went home and made hot chocolate, and then he left <3 Will see him soon; he'll be joining us at our training-weekend at Hordamuseet 11th-13th of may ;) 

Nammenamm

Idun

My friend's dog just past away; a tragedy. Beautiful, young, kind and gentle Idun. Thought I'd honor her by putting some photos here. 

Hvil i fred <3

Walks, mountains & forests

Rein's coming home! :D Hooray! He's on his way, and I'm making taco. Feeling abit sick, but it'll hopefully pass. Been well for a pretty long time now, probably means my immune-system's getting stronger. So working in a kindergarten is both bad and good ;) 

Here are some photos from my easter-holidays at Karmøy and Ålgård:

 We went to Sålefjell, Karmøy:

And to Månafossen/Månaseter, Gjesdal: