May Day

Rain's pouring down. No newspaper in our mail box. Philip and Tia's running sort of a mud race today. All the rain makes it even muddier. Never mind, good sportsmanship.

All our America stuff arrived yesterday, 39 boxes in all sizes, so the house is full of boxes. Tia's unpacked her doll's house and all the accessories literally floating all over the floor. There is a need to clean up. What do we do with all the boxes? We need a plan.

After the race, a shower, put the wet and dirty clothes in the washing machine, had some lunch and off to IKEA to look for a new couch, then to the "office" to make it all ready for a new course starting on Monday. Well on our way to IKEA (and ToysRus) we realize it's May Day. That's a public holiday in Norway. Everything is closed. It's a huge disappointment.

Not much we can do about that other that adjust to Norwegian standard: things are closed on public holidays. And of course, that's why there was no newspaper this morning.

Off to prepare the office for the next course. Philip's playing video games. Tia's watching a film. Mom and dad working.

Then off to some friends of ours for dinner and socializing. Sit down relax. Excellent Bacalhau. A good bottle of Beaujolais. Good company. Ingunn's drinking water and driving home. Volunteering. Kids playing games and videos on the iPhones so the stay awake on the way home. Home 10.30 pm, kids straight to bed.

May day; explains it all.

It's 11 pm, hope you had a wonderful May Day.