Well, today the sky was blue and the sun was out: something foreign for Norway this early in the year. I brought the sun from Barcelona, what can I say :).
We slept in, got ready, ate a typical Norwegian breakfast and then went to the local cafe where all the locals go on Saturday to drink coffee and chat.
For breakfast Maren made a special kind of pancakes. She mashed up one banana, then added egg and cinnamon, stirred it all together and cooked it in a small pan just like you would a pancake. It turned out just like one and it was delicious. Along with our banana/cinnamon pancake we had bread with cream cheese on it and topped it with their famous "brown cheese." On another slice of bread we had the same thing but a different kind of cheese on top the traditional Norwegian cheese called "Norvegia." And of course, my favorite, Leftsa.
After stuffing ourselves until we couldn't eat any more, we walked to the cafe.
When we got there we sat down at a cute little table. There were people sitting outside at tables and couches for people to sit at inside. It was such a cute cafe and nicely decorated.
Since we had already ate breakfast we decided to get an afternoon sweet. Looking at all the pastries I chose a random one that was authentic to Norway. Apparently the name of it was "kokosbolle," it was a chocolate on the outside, but filled with coconut cream on the inside, mmmm delishhh.
After our snacks we walked around more through the shops in the town, and eventually ended up finding the town mall. We walked around the mall which was mostly filled with clothing shops, however, then we found a flower shop. There were so many flowers that it was coming out of the store, so we stopped to "smell the roses (or flowers)" and looked around in there. The flowers were beautiful, I had wished my mom could have been with me so I could bring her home some or that we could come here together and look around.
We smelled the flowers and looked around the shops for awhile and then began our walk back home. When we got home Maren made another typical Norwegian dish for dinner. We had a type of hard flatbread with lunch meat on it and sour cream on top. As a side we had porage with butter and cinnamon.
It was one of Maren's friends birthdays today so we put on our cute dresses went out to her birthday party for the night. I got to meet all of Maren's other friends and see how the Norwegians celebrated birthdays. Everyone was so nice and so interested to hear about all my travels/ where I was from. I met so many new friends and loved every single one of them!
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