We went to the city center today to relax and enjoy the nice weather, its fun looking at all the tourists. We sat down at the Sailor’s monument eating buns and drinking coffee.
Then suddenly..
A young lady in a bachelor party, she had to paddle a few rounds around the monument. 
Its awesome when they figure out fun stuff like this, instead of making a fool out of them.
I feel it is a bit early for autumn yet but when I saw this outside my office I was reminded that the time is here soon.
Any signs of autumn where you are?
We walked up and down Fløi Mountain today, that was a bit though with the roller but all exercise is good exercise. Our little one walked a bit once in a while to stretch her leg. We looked forward to test our new storm kitchen as well.
On the way up it was misty, many tourists waited until it lifted I think before they went up the funicular.
Heres the new storm kitchen, it was awesome and the pancakes were done in a flash.
The view of Bergen city on our way down.
Black Pearl and Jack Sparrow ready to launch attack on Nissi Beach hotel Aya Napa.
I received a lot of nice things on my birthday, caps, gift-card, tie, t-shirts, book, jogging shoes, mountain shoes etc but most important to me my better half and the three young ones woke me up singing for me and I got a muffin with a candle. A perfect start of the day. Its a tradition we have and I love it. Later that day we met my parents, sister, brother in law, niece and nephew to eat dinner in Aya Napa – a perfect day.
The mountain shoes I got was a bit too small so I went to the shop today (XXL) to change them. The second I went in I was met by a smiling girl.
Her: Hi there, do you need to change that?
Me: Yes
Her: Do you have the receipt?
Me: No, sorry
Her: Thats ok, I’ll sign a note so you can change them, there, please go to the shoes department
It was kind of hectic there, they were setting up new displays but a new girl saw me and dropped what she were doing.
Her: Hi can I help you?
Me: Yes please, I need to change these one size up
Her: Sure, give me two seconds
Two seconds later:
Her: Here you are, try these on
Me: Perfect, thanks!
Her: I’ll register it and print out a confirmation note to you for the cashier, here you are.
Wasn’t that beautiful? It took me max 3 minutes, they were great.
I just wanted to share it…
I love China’s will to invent and explore, here is the new bus soon ready for testing in Beijing.
Link to article on Chinahush.com
I’m not sure where this comes from but I thought it was incredibly cute and wanted to share it.
Chelsea Clinton married on the same day as Lisa Simpson! (Episode 122)
We’re home from two weeks in awesome Cyprus, we’ve grown quite fond of it and decided to go here this year as well. It was hotter this time but still two great weeks. We decided to go to Paramount Hotel near Protaras and Fig Tree Bay, a cozy hotel with great swimming pools. Though we spent most time on different beaches since our little one has problems with her ears.
Cyprus has changed since last time though, it has become seriously expensive, I think the Euro has ruined a lot for tourists. Paying €10 for 4 cups of Cola at the hotel isn’t very attractive and I’m afraid we might look for other places to go next time. Theres something else as well, the politeness we were used to is fading away, is it due to the conflict with Turkey’s illegal occupying more and more of the country? When we enter a native Cypriot shop we see the politeness as we’re used too but when we enter a Turkish shop it is a whole different world. Oh well, the beaches are still nice and the public transport system is still much better than here in Norway and we still me a lot of great people who takes a stance for Cyprus and what it believes in.
The crew at Paramount was great too, especially Yannis who were a great sport and gentleman – he were always smiling and doing a great job.
Beside going to the beach we took The Pirate Ship trip, Camel Park, the big market near Larnaca, amusement park in Aya Napa, Waterworld and a few nights at the hotel with entertainment. Mimi is still awesome.
An example of how hot it was:
A typical Aya Napa bay:
The view from our hotel:
Somehow we often end up on the stage (me on the left):
They made me a birthday cake! (which was very good)
From the Pirate trip, he looked a lot like Jack:
Heres is a shop I’ll never enter again, everyone is followed around in here and treated as a criminal: (Aphrodite Shop in Aya Napa)
From visiting the Camel park:
Awesome light/water-show in Protaras:
Our 2,5 year old daughter had high fever for many days until we decided to visit the medical emergency last weekend. She didn’t eat well for days and she we’rent the jumpy girl we’re used to.
They checked her and decided to give her antibiotics for a throat infection. We were kind of happy that they found out what it was that fast but we forgot to check her CRP. The day after she got worse and we took her to our family doctor, he checked her CRP and he was shocked. It was 200! Their device stop at 200. He wrote a reference to the hospital and we took her there directly. They ran a lot of tests and we waited and waited, when the first tests arrived they decided to submit her, it wasn’t her throat that was the issue. I have to admit that I was worried, its our little princess and it feels terrible when we don’t know whats wrong with her and we can’t help her.
We got a room with a bed and they started to test further, later she got something to eat and she got painkillers to control her fever – its not fun when a little kid has 41 degrees Celsius. We were told that she had to stay for the night, we decided to let her mummy stay with her – since she is very dependent of her mummy when shes sick. The next morning we went to the hospital to visit them and bring some fresh clothes, there we still no news, they hadn’t found out what caused this. But her CRP had dropped to 165 which is very good, still way too high though but at least decreasing. Her fever still raved though so it was still in her body. They took an ultra-sound check on her and everything seemed fine and they are leaning on a theory that it is a virus infection.
I am always worried that doctors think we overreact and treat us differently but that was not the case this time, they kindly explained to us that we did the right thing and that it was important to monitor her health closely. Today her values were better and they decided to let us go home but we have an open submission in case we need access to them again and then we don’t have to go through the paper work.
They are still waiting for some lab-results, I think they will be ready tomorrow. Since she started on a antibiotics cure that interfered with some tests and they had to grow something. I don’t understand everything they say. They asked us to come up to them tomorrow anyway to take a new blood test to check her CRP. It feels good to be helped taking care of our little one.
We had a long winter and I think our roses are in shock. They are about to spring but they are way overdue. I miss them!
ESA’s Planck mission has delivered its first all-sky image – all sky! Its our universe! The Egg!
It reminded me of something Andy Weir once wrote, I really recommend reading this: The Egg.
It starts like this:
You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s when you met me.
“What… what happened?” You asked. “Where am I?”
