Other than that I wish you all a very happy new year with lots of love and happiness and also a healthy new year. We managed the very busy December month and finally I found some time to update you all on that. So I bring you xx pictures in the photo albums Christmas 2007, Events, Norway Impressions, Us and Our House.
Also I have added a few movies on Youtube, which are now linked with the website. The album Fireworks contains our fireworks from 2007-2008 and after (we had too much small stuff left ofcourse!). I recently also added stuff from before, which were not properly visible on our website, so since the video albums are working, you can view all the video's in these.

At christmas time Theresa and I received a nice table for the flat from Lisa and Ivan, which we used during the 24th of December for our Christmas Eve dinner, which I wrote about in a previous post. The 25th we had a nice dinner and lots of presents for our flat and own pleasure.

After christmas I had a few days of working, but that was mostly work on own company and to be starting company, followed by the preparations of the New year's eve celebrations. 

We celebrated New Years eve at the flat with Laura and Hallvard. Laura made 'Wellington Boot' which is butterdough (foil) with pathe and filet and nuts. 

I  made 'Nederlandse Oliebollen' (Oilballs or oljeboller),  'Norsk Vafler' (soort van wafels maar dan zacht) and 'Appleflaps (Dutch? Appelflappen)'.

We had as desert Creme Brulee.

At 23.45 we started firing off the fireworks to be able to see all the fireworks off others as well and to see the new year coming (we neither had a dish to receive any TV Channels). I am not sure whether we were too early or too late with saying happy new year. It's just that it's not that explosive as in Holland. There was nearly no difference between before twelve and after twelve o clock. Nevertheless we have seen many nice fireworks and made some video material of that. After firing off rockets and fountains and battery's we went to friend Kjell-Andre to wish them a happy new year and there we also continued our rockets firing. Ofcourse I had to introduce Kjell-Andre to the Oliebol, which he found a bit too oily, but nice. He said Norwegians don't do much with oil. Hmmm.. I have to think a bit about that one.. pommes frites, komper, pølse and what more.. yeah right!

After Kjell-Andre we went to Sandvatn to see Laura and Hallvard (which were already to bed) and see to that the cats were alright. Than we went back to the flat to clean a bit up and to drink some 'Snowball' (Dutch Advocaat with Icecream and 7up/Sprite). Then to bed.. which was very welcome to us after a long day. And as said in the beginning of this post, the first of January no snow, but the second of January 5cm. They say it might become 70cm with a huge blizzard/snowstorm over week. Now back to work.