Beetles

Hei!

I've been tied to the bed the last few days because of my cold. Not cool! The only interesting thing I've really done outside the house apart from a few errands is going to a car gathering with my grandpa. I've wanted to for a really long time, he's asked me several times to go, but I've never been able to. He's been going to meetings for years. He's had a Beetle for as long as I can remember and a motorbike with a side wagon. He takes apart the motorbike every winter to make sure all the parts are in shape and stuff and puts it together for the summer season. He parks his car for the winter too and can fix it himself if it's broken, I think that's really cool.

When I was little he would take me out to his back garden with my bike and we'd take it apart and polish it and put oil on the parts that needed it and really do it up. He also brought me big pieces of chalk one day and together we picked out fossils, it was really exciting! I still have the ones we found, he gave me a book too so I could try to figure out which kinds I found. He'd also take me fishing, mushroom picking, hiking, bike rides and motorbike rides. I feel so fortunate to have done many of those things. He's really interesting, he'd know way more than my school books and has had the most interesting jobs like gold smith, sailor and marine biologist. We always have something to talk about which is great! 

Back to what we did! It was a VW club who hosted the meeting and they were turning 25 that day. There were 25 cars who showed up mostly beetles, some busses and two really old Volvos. We drove all together for little over an hour before we stopped. We were gonna pick up some pizzas, but they weren't ready like they were suppose to even though they had ordered them three days in advance. We left and drove for another 15 minutes till we came to an old school. It was a big yellow building on top of a small hill. It looked a very typical old school. Some guy had bought it and turned it into a museum. He had bought really old cars that were gonna go to waste so he got them really cheap. He put them in the schools old gym which was downstairs in the building. There were toilets in the hallway, a food hall and another room which I'm guessing was the classroom. They had filled that room with typical sixties things. They had made two living room looking corners and in the middle there was like a big glass shelf with old car models and other things that was typical sixties style and wooden skis. 

When we had seen everything there was to see someone had picked up the delayed pizza and we all went to the food hall to eat and watch old movies from Bergen and how the rode we drove there on was made. The atmosphere was in general very nice and people seemed excited to be there and see each other. It was very lucky that it was sunny that day, we got to see so much nature on the way and it's especially beautiful now I think as everything is yellow, orange and red. It was a really cool experience and I was so happy to see my grandpa again, I don't see him nearly enough. 

Here we are right before we left from Bergen. 

My Grandpa's beetle. I think her name is Dolly.

Me and my grandpa, Kjell. Ken's photo.

Ken had this cool idea,  love this photo. 

Grandpa and Ken in the small beetle. I had to sit in the back as usual because there were less space there. Lame! I think the boys just want to stick together!

Typical sixties living room in the old class room.

An old gas tank! So cute!

He also had some old motorbikes

It was made to look like an old gas station, cute! There's my grandpa and some of his friends.

I loved this one

Oldies

All the cars were really big

One of the beetles were an old police car.

Ken is busy being handsome in the food hall.

Old Pinball machine

Here's me and Ken. We tried to take a photo of us in a hurry with all the cars in the background, but failed.. 

Beautiful scenery on the way back

Pretty, pretty!

It was a great day, I had a lot of fun. I'll have to link you to Ken's page again as he's got some awesome photos of for example all the cars on the road and things like that. I feel very lucky that my grandpa took us, I had a blast!

I'm still inside with my tea, but I'm ready for some action again now, I'm pretty soon over my cold. Ken has got a bank account opened now, that's pretty awesome and he's started working too. I'm very proud and excited! 

Love 

xoxo

I just ride

Yesterday afternoon I suddenly felt awful. I must have caught a bug or something. It came really quickly, I guess it didn't help that I went out earlier in the day wearing only a dress either. It looked so sunny and warm outside and it was, in the sun. We went the only place in Bergen where it wasn't actually sunny so it was pretty cold after a while. I just thought it was my last opportunity to wear a nice summer dress this year, but I suppose that wasn't very wise, I'm paying for that decision now!

My dad is really interested in street art and knows pretty much everything there is to know about that stuff. Ken is interested too so my dad decided to take us down to an abandoned factory building with huge rooms covered in lots of graffiti and street art. It looked like the perfect location for a horror movie. It got darker and darker the further in we went. Apparently it used to be a paint factory.

My pictures don't even kind of do it justice, it was pretty cool. My dad takes photos of street art and posts it on insragram and he's got like over two thousand followers. Oeyra is his instagram name if you want to find him. Ken has proper photos on his Facebook and you can probably see some of his pictures on is next blog, it'll be posted on Tuesday, you can find his blog here!

My first days here in Norway has been pretty uneventful so far, I seem to have no choice with this silly cold! I'm just in now with my tea trying to be better. I'm loving the song "Ride" by Lana Del Rey right now. She posted the video on YouTube a little while ago.

Lots of love!

xoxo

Today! :)

Hey!

Today has been one of those days where nothing goes quite right. I think it's because we were up too early. Personally I think nothing good happens before 11 am. We spent the night with Ken's beautiful mum, Mandy! You may need to note that name for further reference as I tend see her from time to time. She's lovely!

She needed to be at work quite early so we hitched a ride with her into Dun Laoghaire because the game Borderlands 2 came out today and as a dedicated gamer Ken had pre ordered it and was very excited! When we got there though the delivery of the game was delayed so we had wait for a while. To kill some time we had coffee at Costa Coffee and bagels at the Bagel Factory. We also spontaneously went to see the movie Total Recall and bought me a new dress.

The visuals were great and the effects were well done, but apart from that there was nothing particularly exciting about the movie. I got my pink candy floss though so I was happy:)

We were both so tired and for some reason so cold the entire time we were waiting so it was some long hours, but he got it his game in the end even though they had gotten in only five collectors editions of the game or something. Silly Gamestop!

Later on we were watching The Simpsons and saw Dr. Hibbert with some mustache parallel with his eye brows!! Look!

Hahaha!! It looked so funny! 

On another random note I saw on instagram that Example had interviewed a famous Norwegian footballer! Isn't that random?!

Mandy is also moving these days so we had found some of Ken's old things while taking things from the attic. It was so cool to see his old toys and he was reunited with his first and favorite teddy, it was adorable. Snowy is his name:)

This morning my friend Junior left to study in the U.S. So sad to see him leave, he's really wonderful, I wanna wish him the best of luck. He'll be missed!! He's unlike anyone I've ever met, he's just so nice! My heart goes out to his boyfriend, Jack who's back here in Ireland. I can't imagine how it must be for him. 

I have to end this blog now before I fall asleep! I'm sure Ken's got even more to say about the day, you can read his side of the story on his blog here! 

Lots of love xoxo 

These days

So I've started a blog now and it's gonna be a way to keep in touch with all my friends and family. I've lived in four different cities by now so my loved ones are all over the place so I felt like this is a good way to at least try to keep in touch with them all! 

I have lived in Dublin for over a year now. I moved here 12th of June, 2011. I decided to move here after I met Ken who's my current boyfriend. I was a smitten kitten and decided to spend my life with him in Dublin where he lived. Here we are:

Eating ice cream someplace in Ireland!

On our one year anniversary last february 28th

Here we are on Kens birthday party this year!

We've been living on our own in a quite a small place called Sallynoggin in county Dubiln. I loved that place, all the people who worked in the shops near by knew our names and stuff it was just one of those places.

Currently we live in Bray with Kens childhood friend Luke. They've been best friends since like forever and fortunately I get along really really well with his girlfriend Fiona so it's a great solution. The reason we're here now is because we decided to move to Norway in the beginning of October and needed some extra cash for the move. They had a free room for less than half the rent we payed for our previous apartment. Perfect! Here's me and Fiona:

Roomies:)

I hope my Norwegian friends aren't too mad at me. They've asked me to blog many times cus I've been abroad, but I'm only starting now as I'm going back to Norway, haha! 

We are going to be living in Bergen which is where I've lived most of my life. We'll be staying in my dads apartment at least for the first while. Ken has a job there working for a stage crew and I'm gonna do different things like getting my drivers license and stuff. I'm really excited to be able to spend more time with my friends and family!

That's what happening in my life life just about now! Thanks for stopping by!

xoxo