At the moment Ida and I are back in Norway for the holiday-season, and Rune will be joining us this coming saturday as well. It was good to see our two older children again and just being back home. Leaving Sg with 30C and arriving in Norway holding -20C was certainly a challenge, but keeping my 3 fire-places going I managed..... Arriving Norway by Des.1st one should believe that everything was ready for Christmas as usual in the Tveitan house by now. Especially since Ida has been at school joining her old class. But it is not. It is ready ENOUGH. And I think we will have a great time together even though the windows are still dirty, the laundry is not ironed, the walls have not been either painted or washed this year, the kitchen-floor not oiled or ..... But we have made ginger-bread-men with Idas class, Lucia-cakes 5 days late, playing in the snow, gone swimming, catching up with lots of friends, organizing presents, you name it! Why worry, as on our Christmas-dinner my mother-in-law will support us with cakes and home-made beer and my mother will give us dessert with cloud-berry cream, and I believe I will manage the pork-ribb.... Updates will follow! Enjoy the pictures....
Winter in Bø....
Christmas-marked at the Norwegian Seamans-church
Christmas-decorations at Orchard Road; THE shopping-street of Singapore...
Just off Orchard is a rather more exotic, colonial street; Emerald Hill road. Not much reminding of Christmas here...
The Norwegian ladies in Singapore had their annual Christmas-dinner at Raffles Hotel. We were almost 100, having ribbe and lutefisk, and cloudberry-cream for desert. Almost like home....Even the Ambassador, Tormod C. Endresen, paid us a visit:-) I finally got my Singapore Sling at the well-known Raffles Long bar!
Deepavali is a big Hindu-celebration, november 13th. This year we were able to celebrate with one of Runes working-mates. Ida was properly decorated with henna-tatoo!
As for you who reckons that all I (Mona) do all day is making my nails and doing my hair, YOU ARE WRONG! One day we actually climbed the highest point in Singapore at Bukit Timah. All 163,63 m asl!
