Fly in to Oslo

Train from Oslo (stoppover at Lillehammer - Trondheim) to Bodo

Bergen 
• Fish Market
• Hike Bergen's 7 mountains

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TRANSPORTATION

Eurail Norway Pass:

• Unlimited travel on the national rail network of Norway (see map).
• Choice of 3, 4, 5 or 8 days unlimited train travel within a 1 month period.
• May be used on consecutive or non-consecutive days

With Multi-traveler discount, per person cost: 

• $300 - 8 days, $240 - 5 days, $200 - 4 days, $175 - 3 days
• Individual Ticket Oslo to Bergen $125 , Trondheim to Bodo $176, Bodo to Lillehammer $243, Lillehammer to Oslo $58 (or Bodo to Oslo $253)

Note: only goes as far as Bodo, and Andenes is 250 miles/6 hours north of that.

CAR --(Rented) -- from and returned Bodo or from Trondheim returned to Bergen:

• $150/day for 9 passenger; $100/day for 5 passen.; $65/day for 2 passen.

Food

PROPOSED TRIP PLAN

This was so powerful. I thought I'd pass it along.

I just got two new lamps w/ shades to flank our bed and I am super de duper jazzed about them! Especially after 14 years of mis-matched, half-working, thrift-store ones! (P.S. Every other lamp in my house, except my prized two front room lamps, are thrift store lamps, and I'm cool with that. Just hard to get great matching ones, you know?)

Down side, comments say "fragile". We are going to need an FHE STAT. TOPIC: Mom's Lamps, LESSON: how we avoid their proximity like the plague.

David and I had the "opportunity" to spend Christmas with just our little family in New Orleans this year and while the experience was memorable, if we could have we would have been in Utah. We missed everyone so much! We have been so spoiled in years past without even knowing it. Living out here we have gained an even greater appreciation for the wonderful gift of Family. Heavenly Father knew we would need each other. I'm so glad to count you all as part of that family. Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year(JoJo stay strong this year in making it to midnight, I'll be there in spirit. Maybe Reagan will join you now that she is a mom). 
Love you all!
Emily

While innocently searching "Christmas Stories" in our library search engine, I was shocked and appalled to find out quite a nice collection of the 1600 books found are smut!

But I have to share the awesome titles, they are too good to miss. For heaven's sakes, who imagines up this drivel that's meant to suck you right in to your wildest dreams? It's hilarious.  Just don't google the book covers.

• Cowboy Under My Christmas Tree (There are lots of cowboy titles. Who knew we were all pining for cowboys?)
  
• Mistletoe and the Lost Stiletto
• Hers for the Holidays; Hot for the Holidays
• Santa Baby
• Kisses on Her Christmas List
• Snowflake Bride 
• The Holiday Nanny  
• A Season of Seduction
• I'm Your Santa (I prefer this direct approach, don't you?)

And my favorite:

• His First Noelle       
• [Then in tiny print at the bottom] ...and his last!

P.S. I've just come up with the best idea. I say we write our own romance but make it totally ridiculous. Write a paragraph and then pass it on to each other until the story ends. Tragically? Happily? Who's with me!

Rusty and I were divide-and-conquer shopping at Winco. He had August, I had all three wrestling boys. At check out, he said the deli gal said "Your daughter is so beautiful!" Pause. Father proud moment.
 Then she continued with, "Reminds me of Lindsay Lohan!"  Yikes.

A memory that made me laugh out loud this morning at the gym:

It's three o'clock in the morning. I've got several layers on top and my way-too-revealing running tights on bottom to shield me from colpo d'aria. Reagan's itunes are blasting away in my head and for added warming up measure, I can't help but allow the beat to resonate deep down in my bones. Bryan is valiantly supporting both me and her mother, who should be arriving from her night leg any minute now. Besides a few other quiet supporters and a couple more runners warming up for their turn to vanish off into the abyss, we are alone in a northern californian world that we are wholey unfamiliar with. My subtle body-bobbing slowly transforms into full hip rolls, bum thrusts and elbow swinging--I am gettin' down, as they say. Bryan starts up a chat with the very proud husband of a (apparently faster than me) runner, while trying to ignore my embarrasing behavior. I don't see the cute thing at first but to combat his wife-braggin' attempts, I up the ante in my dancing and exclaim, "But can she do this!"  He quiets with, "well, no." Aha!

After at least 15 minutes of this (and that), I am getting worried that Leslie is lost. We were deep into discussing our utah roots when I interupt with, "She should have been here by now." My dancing slows and eventually stops. The Proud Husband explains how Leslie's leg is long and hilly and hard and that this leg will be fairly easy, and I insist that, "No, her's is actually quite short and flat. But my leg, which is also your wife's, is going to be hilly, and long and hard. And even though she may be faster, she can't do this [hip roll]!" He continues to insist the opposite until Bryan and I have the same flash of lightning--WE ARE AT THE WRONG EXCHANGE!

In have an instant we look at each other, take off in a full sprint to the car (me more prepared for that than her), while we catch a faint yet pathetic "Good Luck!" from the chatty duo.



The story ends in finding Leslie, twenty-five minutes into chilling in her own sweat, with a fake worry and frown (to fool the disdainful volunteers and snearing runners) and me jumbling my vest/headlight/ipod/batan only to happily vanish off into the abyss with the best night-leg warm-up of the decade.

Ladies, Do you know about librarything.com? Finally, a book journal online! I'm excited because I always forget the books I've read and somehow that seems sad to me because they become a part of who I am for a while--maybe forever! I did have my account private (K.K. is my name), but maybe I'll make it public so I can see get some good recommends from you! I know Good Reads is a great site for that, but I was mostly looking to make a personal catalog. Anyway...just an FYI!

(A lot of !'s. Can you tell I'm excited!)

The word crabby.
We always use it for the toddlers who wake up on the wrong side of the bed.
   .....
Squirrels that stare at you.
I start to wonder what they are thinking and like to put pretend thought bubbles above them.
.....

Erica Schmidt and Peter Dinklage.
Sadly, his last name is Dinklage.
But beside that...they just had a daughter and I think they're cute.

Duds and a Racoon Dude from Aunt Jojo for Dapper Duke! I'm sorry Jourdan, these were too cute not to share. Apologies~Kelsey

I couldn't get "Silence of the Pams" or "Northanger Cabbie" in, so you'll have to scroll through the gallery sets 1, 2, 3, and 4. Wouldn't it be fun to sit in the sun wiht Chris Riddell and brainstorm these? In England no less.

Here is a pic of grandmas house Tay. Sorry I didn't see ur post earlier! maybe someday I will get the book done too! Sigh!!