God tur!

On Tuesday, some friends and I played hooky from our intensive academic work (ha!) to check out the big Salvation Army store in Oslo. Salvation Army stores are different here than in the US. They're cleaner. And they have less stuff. And what they have tends to be more expensive.

None the less, it's really fun to see what kind of stuff Norwegians get rid of. I had planned to take my camera, but I am notoriously absent-minded, so, of course, I forgot, so I don't have pictures of Amelia in a fur-collared coat or of the disturbing amount of underwear they sell (I don't care if it's new, underwear from a second-hand store is just not okay!).

But I will tell you about a few things that I found funny. 1) All the tags in the store said "Den som leter skal finne," which means "The one who seeks will find." I found this ironic use of a Biblical quotation delightfully irreverent, don't you? 2) I found a several copies of books from the "Barnevaktklubben" series, including "Stacys Valg" and "Claudia redder verden." Thank goodness they thought to import the Babysitters Club! What would pre-adolescence be without it?! 3) They had about a million copies of "Bridget Jones' Dagbok."

Then we found a cafe down the street that has delightfully non-greasy and very thin pizza (some of which comes with pineapple!). And we spend the afternoon in a dark cafe eating pizza and chatting about virtual reality. Yay!