Alagaesian

Watched Rambo 4 with the gang!   Cool!  Bloodiest movie I’ve ever seen.

Iceland won second place in the last Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow.  Well deserved I’d say!  I’m sort of in love at the moment with her… 

Officials from Iceland jokingly thanked her for her consideration of placing second… as they cannot really afford to arrange the big competition in 2010!

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Gratulerer med dagen!

National Day in Norway the 17th of May! The only day in the year that the streets are packed with people.  

Breakfast at Anita’s at 830am. Hit the town for the parades and for more parties the rest of the day!

Picture taken at Anita’s is a yearly tradition. More pictures in Flicker to the right side of the window.

Alexander Rybak won the Eurovision 2009 Song Contest in Moscow for Norway with his song Fairytale.  It is a landslide victory (387 pts) with Iceland at 2nd place garnering 218 points.  It also made history as the first time breaking the 300 points barrier.  In the selection in Norway he also won by a never before seen landslide with a margin of 600,000 points to the 2nd placer.

Finals in Moscow was 16th May last night but the voting ended in the first few minutes of 17th May which coincidentally was also the National Day in Norway!  This meant that there were a lot of partying this weekend!  No complaints there!

That also means that next year will be crazy here in Norway during the month of May.  Looks like this is gonna be the schedule … 

16 May 2010 (Sunday) – always a big football game in the big cities.  

17 May 2010 (Monday) – National Day.  Lots of parades and parties.

18 May 2010 (Tuesday) – 1st Semis of Eurovision 2010

20 May 2010 (Thursday) – 2nd Semis 

22 May 2010 (Saturday) – Finals

Question now is… which city will host?  

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Sunshine out (despite worries from a dull forecast). Seldom do we get these long Labor Day weekends which by luck happens to be perfect for an outdoor barbeque. So… spareribs it is tonight!

New development: trying to keep fit by jogging around the area.