God tur!

Temperature: 20C
Length of Day: 13h54min

This weekend, I went on another little adventure with Lisa. Saturday morning started out looking a little gloomy, but soon the sun came out, so I had visions of laying around on a towel on one of Oslo fjord's cute little islands, reading and listening to music and, hopefully, letting my not-so-blonde roots take in some sun. Of course, by the time I rolled myself out of bed, collected Lisa, took the train downtown, and then walked to the pier where the ferries depart, it was nearly 3 o'clock. Which, in Oslo, means it's rainshower time. Sure enough, while we were eating expensive ice cream cones and waiting for the ferry to come, the clouds began rolling in. By the time we were on board, it had started to sprinkle, but it seemed to me that the clouds were moving in toward the west, so if we kept to the east side of the island, we would be okay.

Hovedøya is kind of a cool island, because it has these cloister ruins from the 11th century. See?

Lisa and I climbed up in the little tower you see there, but it was kind of gross and reminded me of Vertigo. So we climbed down again. There were lots of Norwegian kids playing hide and seek here, too. That was cute. Here is Lisa looking at a really old beam.

We wandered around some more and saw the beach. The very beach in fact where I went swimming with my dear friend Sara two years ago! See?

Well, that's not really the beach. It's the water, but you get the idea.

Next, we set off in search of the mysterious "Kommandantbolig" indicated by several signs. We adeptly assumed it was a house where a commandant had lived. Maybe? In fact, it was. A very abandoned-looking house, at that, although the sign said it was an excellent example of some architectural style I can't remember now, and a little wooden sign on the door suggested that there had been a puppet theater there at some point during the summer. The sight of a rather creepy-looking puppet with enormous eyes through the window confirmed these suspicions.

Turns out, it was a good thing we found this place. It had a covered side porch that came in handy when it began pouring outside about 2 minutes later. So Lisa and I ate apples on the porch and talked about our friends who are getting married and watched the sky for about 45 minutes.

Needless to say, no sunning of myself took place on Saturday. And on Sunday a chilly air moved in that definitely reminded me of fall. I think it may be long sleeves from here on out!