Nye eventyr: september 2010

This weekend I went to New York as some of you might know. The past work-week was extreme in all aspects, I had dinner at 11 pm THREE times the past week and since it takes me so long time to get home from work I also took a cab three times this week. So on Friday night, after coming home at 11 (again!) I packed my bags and took an early bus to NY on Saturday morning.
I arrived in Jills (Caryns sister) apartment which was this fancy apartment complex right next to Rachel Rays studio. When I told to the doorman that I was going to Jill in 17A and asked which floor it was he looked at me for a long time and said; "Miss, you go into the elevator and press 17", haha, I have never been to the 17th floor before. Anyway, after some relaxing me and The Steinbrechers went to a SPA nearby where I got my first manicure and they got pedicures. My nails have never looked so good before. After that we went to Oyster fest in the financial district. Caryn and Jill tried to explain to me before we went what Oyster fest really was and I didn't get it so I don't know if I'll be able to describe it. They had closed down one whole street and filled it with tents that sold oysters, beer and other foods. I had a lot of oysters, and some beers. We then went to a birthday party for a friend of Caryn from Jersey, I have always asked Caryn if people from Jersey are like the people on Jersey Shore and she has said, that yea, some are. At this party I found out she was right, I tried to take a sneak picture of an original guido so you could see. They even wore "the shirt before the shirt"!! We then went to the East Village (I think, I just tagged along), met some more old college friends of Caryn and went to this club where we danced the night away. On Sunday we had an amazing brunch with coffee, orange juice, crab meat eggs bendict and pancakes with fresh fruit which was followed by some last minute shopping.

When I started writing this post I was on the bus back home which should have taken me home to Boston at around 10.30 Sunday night. However, that did not happen. About midway between NY and Boston the bus broke down. Yeey. Apparently we hit a bump which caused our hydraulics to break down. The bus company had no easy solution to this, the driver couldn't get a hold of them and no one knew what to do. So there we were standing on the side of the highway with no electricity not knowing what to do. This lead to absolute chaos. Everyone ran everywhere asking people what was going on and the driver didn't inform us about anything. It should also be noted that this was a double decker filled with people so I think we were almost 50-60 people on the bus so there were a lot of people running around.Then this other bus stopped in one of the other lanes on the highway and this crazy woman from our bus tried to cross the interstate to go to the other bus. People began to panic and someone called 911. So the police came and opened up a window so we could have enough air and tried to calm everyone.Then someone told us that the driver got hold of a mechanic that would come in an hour. They were also talking about a bus coming from Boston in 3-4 hours to take us back.. At this point I really needed to pee...Well, the mechanic came and led us to this train station, but then, magically the bus had fixed itself by driving over another bump which got the hydraulics back up again. Hahaha. But the cool thing about this bus ride was that I in this chaos met this girl from Taiwan that knew some people that lived in Tromsø, beside Prestvannet. Haha. This guy from the bus were collecting everyone's e-mails so that we could complain to the bus company so today I got an e-mail from this guy who I think wants to sue or something. I don't know what to do.

So, that was me. How was your weekend?

Peace out!

Rachel Ray - gotta love that evoo

Pedicure time!

Andrea is about to eat her first oyster

We love oysters!

Oyster Fest!

An OG, original guido

Brunch buddies Janelle and Yelena

Since my latest post I have moved, worked and kept myself busy with watching my new favorite show "Mad Men".
I no longer live in Boston but the city of Cambridge. This entails a much longer commute to get to work although my room, roomie and the apartment is very nice.
Harvard University is divided so that Harvard Law and that stuff is located in Cambridge while Harvard Medical and School of Public Health is on the Boston side. Fortunately there is a shuttlebus that goes from Harvard to Harvard. The public transportation system here is nothing to get excited about, the T is always full, has no reception and is not exactly punctual so although the shuttle is always packed its a good alternative. Actually last week I took the T to work and was delayed by 20 min because there was a fire (!) in one of the cars. No more T.

My new grocery shop is a shaw, this is one of the biggest shops I've ever been in! The first time I went there just to get some bread and milk I ended up spending one hour just wandering through all of the aisles looking at all the strange stuff. They have like a 10 meter long aisle of only bread. Crazy. They also have freshly made food so I'm currently eating my way through typical American dishes such as mashed sweet potato and mac n cheese.

Last weekend the hurricane "Earl" was supposed to hit. The news portrayed it like it was supposed to be the next "Katrina" so I was so disappointed when it only rained for an hour and was we Northern-Norwegians would call a light breeze.
On last Saturday I went to dinner with Peder, Danielle and some friends of them at a Vietnamese place. It was so good. I still can't believe how cheap it is to eat out here. For mixed appetizers, a main course and two beers I payed approximately 180 NOK. At this place they also introduced me to my new favorite drink, "bubble tea", this is smoothie (in whatever flavor) with tapioca balls which is kind of chewy berries. For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapioca.

This weekend have been quiet, today I went to ICA, The Institute of Contemporary Art, which was very nice and then me and Scott went on a Taco Bell expedition so that I could have my first Taco Bell meal. There is no Taco Bell in downtown Boston so we had to take the T to this mall outside of town, not only was the Taco Bell meal amazing, but I got to catch up with my ex-roomie that is approaching the Diamond league in Starcraft!! Congrats Scott! Although my new roomie, Jen, is very nice I miss Caryn. I'm planning to visit her in Jersey soon and in two weeks me and Caryn are planning to visit Janelle in NY, I'm looking forward to that!

My camera has been without batteries for some time so I haven't taken that my pictures but here are some.

That was a quick update on my latest movements. I love you all!