To begin with a small summary of what has been done and achieved:

Mark, Jessica and Richard arrived sunday 3rd of August 2.30am and went to bed. Later that day we went for sightseeing tour in the area of Kvinesdal for several photos.
Afterwards Theresa went waveboarding together with Jessica and they made several pictures of our cats and the waveboarding. 

Monday the tourists kept an easy pace and went shopping with Theresa in Flekkefjord. Steven worked at home and at the office. We ate pizza that evening which our friends thought was quite expensive for just a deep frost pizza (9 euro a piece). Mark made Brownies and our friends shot at targets with the airgun in the garden. Jessica was eaten alive by the nasty Norwegian mosquito flies called 'knot'.

Tuesday Mark, Jessica and Richard went for a trip to Preikestolen nearby Stavanger. The weather was rainy with lots of clouds. They have though made pictures again and did half the walk to the Preikestolen. They ate in Sandnes and I and Theresa had work and dinner ourselves at home. Tuesday night Theresa and I went to Kristiansand to pick up Eelco which arrived 00:00 Wednesday at Kristiansand with the Colorline boat. We were back home 2am.

Wednesday was an rest day for our guests. We decided to show them a trip to Farsund over the old road and after looking around on touristical way, we shopped our meal in there. Farsund is the only place until now that we have found to sell Vegatarian meat in packets (Coop). Kvinesdal doesn't have any shop that sells that special type of 'fake meat'. We ate a special vegetable, meat (or veggy meat), rice dish made by Eelco.

Thursday we went all together to Kristiansand. This trip was mainly based on shopping. So we went to all kind of funny shops in the center of Kristiansand. Some pictures were shot of the center. Richard got his 'balls' in Upstairs, a shop that appeared to be downstaires actually. Afterwards we went on to Sørlandssenteret for more shopping (cat food) and a meal at Peppes Pizza together with Ivan and Lisa which Steven picked up from their homes. Thursday evening home we found Laura who came to visit us for a day to do some business in town next morning.

Friday was a day with sun for once! Mark and Eelco decided to stay home to repair something for us, fish and be around the house to rest. Jessica and Richard went on to Lysebotn to be amazed by the views, the 27 sharp turns, the snow(!) and the fjord.
me and Theresa stayed home because of work and because of Laura which also visited us since thursday evening. Mark and Eelco fixed the salmon smokery which Arjan started on during his visit. Cool! Thank you very much!

After this fast forward boat trip through the busy week with our friends we went on a real boat trip with our friends on Saturday as the Grand Finale. At first they were wondering about a Canoe trip in Lyngdal, but after that had been taken offline by the tourist info from their website, our friends decided that a speed boat trip would be cool as well. So I reserved a time with the owner of the 'Utleie' and at 2pm we were at this speed boat rental in Flekkefjord. We took a boat capable for 6 people and went all in for 600 NOK (that's good for 6 hours and a full tank + life suits) with 25 horsies on the motor. What an amazing thing! What a crazy good touristical idea! We were afraid at first and took it easy but later on dared more and took topspeed through he Fjords. 

We stopped at an island, which appeared to be two other functions:
- Super Ant hill, they were.. everywhere! and on top there was a real anthill.
- Line pole for very huge ships (big pole for chain, see photos).

Later on we went a bit farther towards the sea, where the boat started rocking on the waves. That was a bit too scary so we went back to the more quite area of the Fjord and started trying out the engine at it's max and turning the boat around amazingly fast. Probably we were also showing off to the people at the beaches (haha). At 5.30pm we went back to the harbour to pay for the fuel and give the boat back to it's owner (awww). We went back to Kvinesdal and back home we made a barbeque and a huge campfire to keep ourselves warm during the barbeque evening, as the temperature dropped to 13 degrees C. 

Than the time came to clean up, get stuff packed. Get photos off cameras on the Apple laptop and copy them to our network so we can show them off to you via this website. Also time to take baths and showers and make ready for a trip home. Eelco had packed his tent and had a short night at a mattrass in the living room again (just like when he arrived btw). At 4am we all woke up to let our friends get ready for their trip home. 4:45 they left the building with Richards car to their trip to Kristiansand to make the boat of 8am (7am check-in). I just received notice that they arrived about 9:30pm Sunday 10th of August.

I'll be uploading several photos of their trip as well as of ourselves during the coming hours. I cannot promise anything about the amount you will have today or tomorrow as it is now already late evening and I have to go through 1705 photos and 15 movies ;).

We thank Mark, Jessica, Richard and Eelco for a fantastic time with us! We hereby also want to tell them they are welcome anytime back to visit us in another holiday. Whether it is for their pleasure of visiting Norway or for helping us around the house or just plain relaxing in the garden and nature of Norway. Or perhaps a nice snowy trip on ski's in Knaben or Setesdalen/Hovden?