Roadtrip!

Phew! Finally caught up with the posts!

Today (July 25), Amanda and I went on a road trip to lovely little town up north named Norheimsund. We stopped to see a waterfall (called Steinsdalsfossen) that you could hike up to and go behind it. It was B-E-A-U-TIFUL! When we climbed back down, I wanted to go to the bottom to get some more pictures. As I was walking towards the bottom of the waterfall, the ground was getting REALLY wet and muddy, but I was walking on the stones to avoid getting my shoes dirty. Amanda managed to get some pictures before I lost my balance and moved my foot to catch myself. When I pulled my foot up, my shoe had come off and was in the mud. Lost my balance again and my sock went into the muddy pit. I gave up so I just walked straight through the mud. Had myself a nice mud bath for my feet. Amanda went inside the gift shop to buy some cheap socks and get some plastic bags. So I spent the day in my brand new socks and shoes. My shoes being plastic bags. Yup, totally going to be the new fashion.

When continued up to Norheimsund and we had our lunch break there. We found a nice bench to sit and busted out our sweet pastry-like bread. Shortly after this, birds started gathering around us. We started feeding the ducks and the seagulls and little birds started coming like crazy. Eventually a baby duckling came out with its mother (so adorable!). We kept trying to find him, but the seagulls were VICIOUS. One looked like it was going to kill the baby for trying to go for the bread but the mama duck was a fighter. It was intense. So eventually we worked out where I'd throw a piece of bread in the opposite direction to distract the seagulls and then Amanda quickly tossed a piece to the baby duck. Luckily the plan worked. I also got to feed some of the small birds. Some of them ate right out of my hand! Don't worry, I washed my hands twice afterwards.

Amanda and I then got some slushies from a store and were on our way back to her home. On the way to and from we were playing Bruce Springsteen CDs (yup, we really loved that concert). We stopped by where Mona worked so I could see her one last time before I flew out tomorrow.

Then Amanda and I went to the grocery store to meet up with her mom to buy ingredients for dinner. Her sister and niece were also with her mom talking. They got a kick out of my new shoes, especially Amanda's niece. She kept asking Amanda, "Did she really wear those outside?" Yes, yes I did :P

For dinner we had tacos! The taco spice tasted like curry so we ate some yummy curry-tasting tacos. For dessert we ate chocolate ice cream with brownie chunks inside and frozen strawberries^^ Amanda's mom also gave us some chocolate called "Hobby" which had a marshmellow-like tasting foam with a jam-tasing jelly all covered in chocolate. It had a unique, very sweet taste to it.

Well, that's it for now. Hope all is well! I'll work on posting pictures soon :)