Events on Tuesday

On Tuesday (July 24), Amanda and I went to the flower shop to pick up some roses. We then went down to the cemetery to meet up with Amanda's family to lay flowers down on her dad's grave. It was three years ago that he had passed away. As the family was talking, I just looked at Amanda's dad's tombstone and all the other tombstones in the cemetery. Whenever I visit a cemetery, I especially pay attention to the older tombstones that rarely have any flowers and are covered by wild plants. Seeing those tombstones makes me wish to learn about those people's stories for some reason. I said a silent prayer to myself and then we left.

Amanda and I went to pick up Mona from her house and we went back into town. Since we didn't have any cash on us at the concert, we went back hoping to buy a Bruce Springsteen concert. When we got there, we saw Bruce and the band rehearing for the concert that night! It was at a distance but it was still cool! We asked one of the security people if we could go in to buy a shirt, but he said no. Amanda then asked a security lady if she could buy us the shirts if we gave her the money and she said yes! Amanda and I got the same shirt and we were so excited to have them!!

On our way back to the car, we got distracted with a tourist shop. Mona and Amanda wanted to feel like a tourist in their own town so we explored the shop. We tried on the crazy hats, sunglasses, and played with the moose themed objects.

We then went to the stores that Mona wanted to stop by at. We went into a store called "Lush" that is similar to Bath and Body but all the products are made from all-natural ingredients (meaning you could eat a lot of them). We spent a lot of time in there smelling the different hand soaps, bath explosions, lotions, and such.

Afterwards, we went inside a store called "Kicks" which sold perfume, make-up, lotions, and such (I guess it's most like the make-up section in Macy's). There was some INCREDIBLY nice perfumes but of course they were ridiculously expensive. Darn. Mona got herself a round brush and Amanda got some hand lotion that was on sale.

For dinner, we went to a Chinese restaurant. Yes I know that's not Norwegian but we all were craving some Chinese food. After we finished eating our dinner and desserts we tried out the massage chairs in the waiting area in the front of the restaurant. All three of us took turns with it (total time was 7 minutes which was pretty good). Mona kept playing the the remote so half the time it was nice, the other half was very painful >.<

We originally planned on going on a road trip but we got distracted... But it was still a very nice day :)