Hello from the flytoget...
I'm officially starting my journey home again which will end at 6pm EST. I'm trying not to think about the actual time it will take. Lets just leave it as long. After what was a surprisingly quick trip to Oslo, but excellent.
What did I do on my last day you ask? Well let me tell you.
It started nice and slow which I'm quite ok with. I had been pushing myself so much before the trip I definitely needed a reminder about taking it slow in the morning. I had some breakfast and tackled the suitcase. I was admittedly nervous and still am about the weight but I will soon figure out if its a problem. But anyway I don't think so.
After that L and B and I got ready to meet S and E at the julemarket. It was at the folk museum out on the island, well sort of an island, is Oslo. I say sort of because you can drive there. Whereas an official Island you can't.
It was a very cute market and fun to sweet folk museum all done up for Christmas. They had an apartment building there with apt from the different eras which was very cool because there were definitely a few that reminded me of my grandmothers old apartment. I also got a couple of nisen there to add to the collection of the family.
After we did the luggage pass off to S and E and we made our way over to R and c for dinner and I was spending the night there. It was really great to get another night with the cousins and we had a lovely meal... Reindeer oh yeh talk about Norwegian and talked a lot more. I also got to see my final Oslo aunt which was great. So I managed to see all the direct Oslo people in the 6 short days I was there. Mission accomplished.
We retired pretty early because I started today at 415. What is with me and early flights? Anyway, R very generously drove me down to the train station where I boarded the train to the airport.
Now I'm in heathrow waiting for my second of three flights to commence. It was an easy connection since my bag got checked all the way to Boston.... Yay!
Now just have to kill 2 hrs with a lot of chocolate and cheese strapped to my back :)
Showing posts with label Oslo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oslo. Show all posts
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
One year ago today
One year ago today I woke up really early, I want to say 5 in the morning, drove to the hospital to have a bi-lateral mastectomy that kept me in the hospital for 2 days and I came out with no chest.
Today was a bit different. I woke up in a very comfortable bed in my cousins house in Oslo Norway. I got some clothes on, had a nice breakfast and got out the door to take the train to crossfit Oslo for one more workout.
The workout today was 5 rounds of
3 power cleans
3 front squats
3 push jerks
I used a bar with 30kg on it. Not super heavy but enough. I'm not great at jerks so I wanted to make sure to go light enough to have good form the entire time. Which I think I did :)
After the workout I changed and went down to Oslo center to do some shopping. I always, as certain relatives have put it, have a weird shopping list when I come and this was no different . I had to buy silver flatware for the family. Which isn't really weird or anything but still kind of special. So I wanted to get that out of the way first before I did anything else.
I pretty much just walked around the rest of the time downtown, got some lunch., and enjoyed being appropriately attired. I wasn't freezing so it wasn't too bad walking around for a bit. I popped into a few shops too.
The. I went to meet L, B, H and my final unseen cousin S for dinner and we were going to a Christmas show. It was great to catch up with S because of course she ha missed the cousins evening a few nights ago.
After dinner we went to a boys choir concert at Frogner kirken. The choir came from the famous church in Trondheim and apparently has been around for 900 years. Which is pretty cool to. There was also a really famous violin player, who's name of course escapes me. But they sang and played some good song ( intermettzo from cavliara rusticana, handels hallelujah chorus) and at the end of the show they had a sing along of delig er Jordan... Which was sing at Christmas at the Holm house. So that was fun too.
And now we're just relaxing a bit before going to cuddle down in the comfy bed again. :)
Today was a bit different. I woke up in a very comfortable bed in my cousins house in Oslo Norway. I got some clothes on, had a nice breakfast and got out the door to take the train to crossfit Oslo for one more workout.
The workout today was 5 rounds of
3 power cleans
3 front squats
3 push jerks
I used a bar with 30kg on it. Not super heavy but enough. I'm not great at jerks so I wanted to make sure to go light enough to have good form the entire time. Which I think I did :)
After the workout I changed and went down to Oslo center to do some shopping. I always, as certain relatives have put it, have a weird shopping list when I come and this was no different . I had to buy silver flatware for the family. Which isn't really weird or anything but still kind of special. So I wanted to get that out of the way first before I did anything else.
I pretty much just walked around the rest of the time downtown, got some lunch., and enjoyed being appropriately attired. I wasn't freezing so it wasn't too bad walking around for a bit. I popped into a few shops too.
The. I went to meet L, B, H and my final unseen cousin S for dinner and we were going to a Christmas show. It was great to catch up with S because of course she ha missed the cousins evening a few nights ago.
After dinner we went to a boys choir concert at Frogner kirken. The choir came from the famous church in Trondheim and apparently has been around for 900 years. Which is pretty cool to. There was also a really famous violin player, who's name of course escapes me. But they sang and played some good song ( intermettzo from cavliara rusticana, handels hallelujah chorus) and at the end of the show they had a sing along of delig er Jordan... Which was sing at Christmas at the Holm house. So that was fun too.
And now we're just relaxing a bit before going to cuddle down in the comfy bed again. :)
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Oslo Thursday
Today was a pretty basic day. First I finally made it to a Wod at crossfit Oslo. It was wicked fun and ironically almost the entire thing was conducted in English. Both of the coaches I've met at crossfit Oslo have been British and Australian so not native speakers. The one today heard me attempt Norsk and immediately answered in English. I mean it was nice because we did snatches and muscle ups. Both things that I don't know well so lots of instruction was a good thing.
The workout
2-2-2 heavy dead lifts with snatch grip.
"Amanda" 9-7-5 of snatches and muscle ups - in about 15 min
So the dead lifts were not a problem. We had done those at crossfit Boston a bunch of times so no biggie. I hadn't don't snatches in a year so that was tricky. I ended up only using the bar 15kg. Which was a bit light but even going up to 20kg was causing my form to go to shit. So wawa.. Light it was. And it was hard enough. We did a nice cool down too, which was a good thing so I can probably go tomorrow without being too sore.
After that we went to S and A. One of my uncle aunt combos. Actually yet are two out of three of my uncle aunts in Oslo. I think I'll be seeing the third on Saturday. We just had alittle lunch and tea and chatted for awhile. My Norwegian skills have definitely gotten worse since my summer school times but I can follow the conversation decently... Enough that I'm not completely lost most of the time, when only one person is talking. It's definitely ways harder when there is a lot of people talking.
After we left S and A I got dropped at the train to go for a walk down town / shop. In typical me fashion though I couldn't really see much I wanted. I went to the mall, Oslo city, and the Christmas outdoor market at Karl Johan's gate. It was fun to walk around and any outdoor market that sells liqueur is ok by me. I didn't drink but still felt very Christmassy.
And now I'm on the train back to Ls to warm up and have some dinner :) another great day in Oslo.
The workout
2-2-2 heavy dead lifts with snatch grip.
"Amanda" 9-7-5 of snatches and muscle ups - in about 15 min
So the dead lifts were not a problem. We had done those at crossfit Boston a bunch of times so no biggie. I hadn't don't snatches in a year so that was tricky. I ended up only using the bar 15kg. Which was a bit light but even going up to 20kg was causing my form to go to shit. So wawa.. Light it was. And it was hard enough. We did a nice cool down too, which was a good thing so I can probably go tomorrow without being too sore.
After that we went to S and A. One of my uncle aunt combos. Actually yet are two out of three of my uncle aunts in Oslo. I think I'll be seeing the third on Saturday. We just had alittle lunch and tea and chatted for awhile. My Norwegian skills have definitely gotten worse since my summer school times but I can follow the conversation decently... Enough that I'm not completely lost most of the time, when only one person is talking. It's definitely ways harder when there is a lot of people talking.
After we left S and A I got dropped at the train to go for a walk down town / shop. In typical me fashion though I couldn't really see much I wanted. I went to the mall, Oslo city, and the Christmas outdoor market at Karl Johan's gate. It was fun to walk around and any outdoor market that sells liqueur is ok by me. I didn't drink but still felt very Christmassy.
And now I'm on the train back to Ls to warm up and have some dinner :) another great day in Oslo.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Mini crossfit and blogging fail
So I had a bunch of stuff written down but because I didn't press publish it didn't save. Damn it.
Today I finally made it to crossfit Oslo. Of course the fail part was the fact that the class I though I signed up for was at 4pm not 2pm. Damn you military time. Fortunately the very nice Australian man I talked to let me do open gym.
It's always harder to motivate myself alone which is why I tend to go to the Wods but I did. And I did a bunch of different stuff including "grace" at almost rx... Since I have no idea how heavy the bar was. But it was likely between 35 and 45 kg total weight. In 11:45. So not bad. I could have definitely done it faster but like I said hard to motivate when you're alone.
Otherwise it was a very relaxing day. Took the dog for a walk, and now off to have a cousins evening with almost all the Oslo girl cousins... Or I guess in this family you have to specify... All the first cousins :)
Let the fun times roll
Today I finally made it to crossfit Oslo. Of course the fail part was the fact that the class I though I signed up for was at 4pm not 2pm. Damn you military time. Fortunately the very nice Australian man I talked to let me do open gym.
It's always harder to motivate myself alone which is why I tend to go to the Wods but I did. And I did a bunch of different stuff including "grace" at almost rx... Since I have no idea how heavy the bar was. But it was likely between 35 and 45 kg total weight. In 11:45. So not bad. I could have definitely done it faster but like I said hard to motivate when you're alone.
Otherwise it was a very relaxing day. Took the dog for a walk, and now off to have a cousins evening with almost all the Oslo girl cousins... Or I guess in this family you have to specify... All the first cousins :)
Let the fun times roll
Monday, December 3, 2012
Made it to the ice box
Ok, any guesses at how cold it is outside right now... Or was when I landed... Any takers. Ok it was -17c when I landed this morning in Oslo. Aka. Freekishly cold. But I've made it safe and sound.
The flight was uneventful, which was good. Except for it being full. Found my bags and made it through customs. It wa funny when the guy checked my passport cause he said hello in English and then saw my passport and said I think you speak alittle Norwegian right... In Norwegian. Which was two fold fun. Because of course I understood him and he bothered.
I took the flybussenexpress to meet L in Tasen. We connected easily and made it back to their place.
I've stayed at L and B's place before so it feels very familiar. Though I've never been here in the winter so it's a different experience.
We just hung out in the afternoon, and did things like have cocoa and these amazing buns with coconut and cream in the middle which are called something I definitely can't spell. And we went to the grocery store.
How we're relaxing in big sweaters in the Living room with a fire going. I may doze off since I've been up since 4, or technically 5 this time. But I'm tired. At least I'm warm for the moment.
The flight was uneventful, which was good. Except for it being full. Found my bags and made it through customs. It wa funny when the guy checked my passport cause he said hello in English and then saw my passport and said I think you speak alittle Norwegian right... In Norwegian. Which was two fold fun. Because of course I understood him and he bothered.
I took the flybussenexpress to meet L in Tasen. We connected easily and made it back to their place.
I've stayed at L and B's place before so it feels very familiar. Though I've never been here in the winter so it's a different experience.
We just hung out in the afternoon, and did things like have cocoa and these amazing buns with coconut and cream in the middle which are called something I definitely can't spell. And we went to the grocery store.
How we're relaxing in big sweaters in the Living room with a fire going. I may doze off since I've been up since 4, or technically 5 this time. But I'm tired. At least I'm warm for the moment.
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