The first Monday I was in town, Kevin and I got to take the adventure of going to Drammen to get my Visa. It is a town that is about a 40 minute train ride away, and much bigger than Kongsberg where we live. Once we went to the police station to get my license, we got to go to the 3rd biggest mall in Norway...ha, that was all Kevin's idea. We did some browsing, and was able to get an idea of what prices are like here. We saw a McDonalds in the mall. It had some familiar items, but then somethings were completely different--a few burgers named after some U.S. states. It was packed of course. It has been the only chain restaurant I have noticed since being here. When leaving the mall, we were suppose to catch our train at 4:47. We thought we were getting there early.... However we got there as a train that said Kongsberg had just pulled up. We ran and then the doors shut in Kevin's face! Ha. We barely missed it, but it turns out that was just an extra train that came by during rush hour! So we did catch the right train at the original time we had planned. But it was still scary to think we missed the train, and we were going to have to wait an hour until the next one. They keep to a schedule--no playing around with the train system. :) Drammen was a very pretty city from what we saw, and I'm sure we will be making a few trips back.
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| Aass Brewery in Drammen- (The Beer Kevin LOVES) |
Our FRIDAY night actually took a surprising turn of events. We initially had no plans, and were just going to go the Vinterfestival fair and beer tent to hang. Kevin ended up getting a call from a friend from work. We were invited to go to a house party and then to an Irish Folk Concert at the Quality Hotel Grand's nightclub, Argus, following. It was much to our surprise that most everyone at the party was International. There were people from Spain, Portugal, and Poland. It was someone's birthday, and I'm pretty sure we heard Happy Birthday in 5 different languages. It was wonderful, and so much fun. Some people are only in Kongsberg for a short period of time (training), and others have moved here from other countries permanently for now. They were all super nice. One funny thing is that in Norway because of all the slush/snow--everyone takes their shoes off before they walk in to someone's house. I of course was sporting lime green socks (I will take note for next time, ha). We went to the Irish folk concert around 11-12, the band was called- The Belfast Lads. There was TONS of dancing, mostly from the fun group of people we met. Videos are below. We had a great time, and the band was very entertaining. Lots of flutes and of course bagpipes! ha.
Here is some examples of the awesome dancing that occurred!
Saturday night we also went out to a place called Kare Maloney, a cafe by day and bar at night, where their was a DJ playing (happened to be a Polish guy, AKA "The Routine," who we met the night prior and works at Kevin's office). He was playing all 60's, 70's, and 80's music on vinyl records. He does this once a month, and that Saturday was his one year anniversary of starting it. My mom would have loved it! For example, Michael Jackson and Earth Wind and fire played.. A lot of the people we had met the night prior were there so that was fun. :) There were lots of fun beers to try and we had a fantastic time!
Just a small glimpse of what it was like...
Sunday was our one year wedding anniversary! Can't believe it has already been a year :) So many blessings and things to be happy about! Definitely didn't imagine spending our first anniversary in Norway :) Like I have mentioned before, most everything is closed on Sunday...so we decided to make gumbo from scratch (turned out awesome--but any southern food would at this point, ha) and just enjoy the day together.
Here are videos from my last post that i loaded wrong so you can actually watch them!
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