It’s August!
Watching the penguines...
It’s almost my 29th birthday! OMG! Turning 30 next year! (Where has time gone by?!)
It’s still summer!
It’s nice and warm outside!
We have had a great summer! We have become more familiar with the streets in our neighborhood, and the close by cities. We have checked out some of the beaches, and different restaurants. What can I say? Like it….
This summer we even had visitors from Norway. Two “groups” came over to see us! In the beginning of July Trond’s parents together with auntie and uncle, who were roadtrippin’ from Seattle throughout different states, stopped by our little recidence. They stayed in the city of Angeles for three days, and we got to show them Hollywood and Santa Monica before they left. Then Trond’s youngest sister and beau, Rebekka and John Audun, came and stayed for almost three weeks. They didn’t stay with us for three whole weeks, but they definitively checked out California. The golden triangle: L.A., Las Vegas & San Francisco, was on their menu. In addition to San Diego. We were together the whole time they stayed in L.A. obviously, but we also spent a weekend in San Diego together. In San Diego we visited the Wild Animal Park and Seaworld.
Dolphin @ Sea World
Both of the parks were great, but I have to say, Seaworld was really something else. The dolphins, amongst others, were amazing! Really too cute!
The nights in San Diego were spent on two different motel/hotels.. The first night was spent in Escondido, in the WORST motel ever! I hardly slept. I felt like I was in the movie “No country for old men”, and was laying in bed waiting for the guy with the oxygen tank (or whatever he was carrying around). I don’t think the room was properly cleaned up either. Filthy, old and disgusting! It didn’t help thatNorah didn’t sleep well either. She was feeling it too. Or she was feeling her mother’s feelings? Anyway, the last night in San Diego was spent downtown! San Diego is such a beautiful city! That night we went wining and dining at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse! Great food. Great service. Great company. Awesome waiters. Even dessert on the house for awesome Norwegians 
Yeah I know, we’re pretty amazing 
It was really sad when the “real” Norwegians left us for Norway…
That’s really the worst part about living far far away from everybody, when they’re leaving. Luckily they left us with awesome memories we wouldn’t been without!
Another thing that’s sad about living far away from family and friends in Norway, is that when it’s born a new cousin, you’re not able to greet and hold the little one. August 12th, a new baby boy in the Pettersen-family was born. Trond’s sister gave birth to a little prince. A BIG congrats to parents Siri, Paul, and big brother Viktor! Thank heaven for Skype! I bet, in a few years we also can feel & smell the ones we’re talking to over the internet as well… I obviously belive in the technology, that’s the advantage, or disadvantage you might say, of living with a n.e.r.d.