Saturday, January 26, 2008

An Amazing Trip???

Hello, all. Yes, big things were promised for today's blog, wind turbines, adventures, and all, but I'm terribly sorry to say that I won't deliver, yet. Saturday morning we got our butts up mega-uber-early to go tour the Smølna wind park. About 30 brave souls showed up to take part. Only one person was missing, but that person was the bus driver, along with his bus. So, after standing around in the snow for an hour or so, the event to end all events was postponed, hopefully just a week or two.

Aw, no, wait, wait! Don't close the browser window just yet, please! We need visitors! My adversisers are going to kill me! I'll still try to entertain you, really! Yes, a story... hm... Let's see... Um, how about, the story of K and M going to... Ikea! Yes. Ikea, in search of a mattress pad and frozen meatballs.

Ok, uh, so we walked, around, um, in the general direction of Ikea, and... Yeah, so here's a picture of an old fort in Tondheim, and the view from its walls over the downtown area. Picture Genghis Kahn and his army of Moguls storming the walls, as the Vikings shoot volleys of flaming arrows and pour burning tar on the invaders! (Could have happened, you never know...)



Walked around, some other stuff happened, or didn't, and hey, there's Ikea! M plots all the extra stuff she's going to buy.


They were out of frozen meatballs, but they had some mattress pads. A celebratory ice cream was in order.


We went home, and then went out for a coffee at the library cafe. The library is built upon the remains of a church from like the 11th century or something. They have dead guys lying around.


(This blog has been brought to you by Ikea. Ikea: Restock your Damn Meatballs!)


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

HI Mariann!!! Hi Karl!!! Sounds like you are having a fine time. Meatballs are no good when they are frozen. You need to heat them up a bit. :-) And why are you eating ice cream in the middle of the winter?? You should have some Irish Coffee....well fortified Irish Coffee!! :-) Congratulations Karl on the fine job harvesting wind! That sounds terrific. I hope the use of wind turbines grows and grows. We remember you at Boeing. When are you coming back for a nice Boeing vacation???? :-)

Monte Evans