Look what we´ve bought!

School´s out - almost....

Last day of school is Friday but as we´re traveling on Friday our kids will miss the last day.  It´s actually just a half day and I can´t imagine that they´ll miss very much.

Ben is off to an artificial lake with his class today for a day of swimming and larking about.  

It´s a strange time of year as so many families are leaving.  That´s what it´s like at an international school I suppose.  I´m glad that we´re staying another year.

Today I´m going to start packing and getting organised for our trip home.  Tomorrow I´m off to Paris with Joan and Lotta for a last day out without kids until after the summer, MUST remember my camera.

Yesterday I got my hair cut and coloured at a different salon.  This one is also walking distance from the house and seemed more professional.  It was a little more expensive (still cheaper than Norway) but I was more impressed with the service.  My stylist was a lovely Italian lady who made sure she understood what I wanted before starting (easier said than done with my awful french and her heavily accented french).  I´m pleased with the result, no more grey hair for a wee while at least.

The men who have been driving a tractor through our garden for the last few weeks finally laid new soil and grass seed in our garden.  Now the pigeons are having a whale of a time!  We were woken this morning about 6 am by excited (I can only presume they were excited) pigeons coo-ing on our bedroom windowsill!  I hope they don´t eat it all!!   

Pizza and Sprinklers!!!

Today was the first grade´s pizza party.  We enjoyed pizza and dessert with the children and then they ran around screaming frantically in the sprinklers.  I think they enjoyed themselves!

Inventors´ Day

Today I just happened to be at the school for Mia´s Pizza party when I found out that I could go along to Ben´s Inventors´ day too!  Ben was John Logie Baird the inventor of television.  I also visited and learned about the inventors of the Band Aid, Toothbrush and the Telephone......

He´s not sleeping, he just blinked when I took the picture!

Mia´s Birthday Party

Fun with the handbag shaped pinnata....

Mia and eight of her classmates celebrated yesterday at Acrochats.  They all had a super time.  I heard one of the boys say "this is the best place ever" so I think they were happy.

Jarle´s applecake

Here is a recipe for a very simple and good apple cake.

Mix one egg and 150ml/1,5 dl sugar together

Add 2 table spoons of melted butter and add 125ml/1,25 dl of milk

add 350ml/3,5 dl flour and 2 tea spoons of baking powder and mix really well

Put it all in a round cake tin the size of a dinner plate

Peel, core and slice 3 to 4 apples

Put 2 table spoons of sugar and two teaspoons of cinnamon in a plastic bag

add the apple slices and shake really well

spread the apple slices over the cake mix and press them down gently

Cook for 30 minutes at 200c 

Enjoy!  (Good with vanilla ice cream)

June and it´s raining.....

We´ve had a good weekend.  On Saturday the weather was great for most of the day and we enjoyed the sun in the garden.  Mia and I went shoe shopping while Jarle baked an apple cake.  We all went round to Joan´s for the evening and enjoyed a Texas style barbeque with great food and great company.