Family Picnic
This event actually already lies two weeks back but thus far I just hadn't had the time or patience to write about it. I might not have mentioned it yet, but the Bleed bureau is more or less shut down the entire July. Some people are going to come in at the end of the month to get some work done but I had my official last day at the office last Friday. To be honest, for me personally that's not even remotely true as I have shitloads of work on my agenda, mostly private but also one project for Bleed still. But more about that some other time.
Anyways, as sort of a start-of-the-summer thing, Astrid and Erik had planned a little company picnic on Gressholmen, one of the many islands right outside the Oslo harbor. The two of them had been cooking and preparing delicious treats pretty much half the day. After work, everyone (almost, Katrine and Miriam unfortunately couldn't join) took a cab to the ferry station, waited in the boiling heat for half an hour – it had been abnormally warm with degrees in the 30ies these two weeks, now it's gray, rainy and cold – and eventually landed on the island. After a fifteen minute walk we arrived a pretty nice spot close to the water. A gin tonic and a quick feet dipping in the cold cold fjord later Erik and Astrid unveiled their gourmet goodies. Homemade antipasti and salads, marinated seafood, fresh bread and tender beef – fingerlicking good stuff. So we stuffed ourselves with food, drank, talked and spent an altogether nice evening 'at the beach' (including a little sleeping on my part) until we headed home at about 11.
Overall a very cool thing to do despite it also being a tiny bit sad – it felt a little like a goodbye-event too. So thank you Astrid and Erik for organizing all of this, and everyone else for being there. And by the way, it was in fact my first time on any of the islands, not counting Bygdøy as it's a peninsula, which is truly a shame.
Doesn't that last picture release a sudden urge in all of you guys to come visit me at the end of July for exploring the Norwegian back country ;D
Anyways, as sort of a start-of-the-summer thing, Astrid and Erik had planned a little company picnic on Gressholmen, one of the many islands right outside the Oslo harbor. The two of them had been cooking and preparing delicious treats pretty much half the day. After work, everyone (almost, Katrine and Miriam unfortunately couldn't join) took a cab to the ferry station, waited in the boiling heat for half an hour – it had been abnormally warm with degrees in the 30ies these two weeks, now it's gray, rainy and cold – and eventually landed on the island. After a fifteen minute walk we arrived a pretty nice spot close to the water. A gin tonic and a quick feet dipping in the cold cold fjord later Erik and Astrid unveiled their gourmet goodies. Homemade antipasti and salads, marinated seafood, fresh bread and tender beef – fingerlicking good stuff. So we stuffed ourselves with food, drank, talked and spent an altogether nice evening 'at the beach' (including a little sleeping on my part) until we headed home at about 11.
Overall a very cool thing to do despite it also being a tiny bit sad – it felt a little like a goodbye-event too. So thank you Astrid and Erik for organizing all of this, and everyone else for being there. And by the way, it was in fact my first time on any of the islands, not counting Bygdøy as it's a peninsula, which is truly a shame.
Doesn't that last picture release a sudden urge in all of you guys to come visit me at the end of July for exploring the Norwegian back country ;D
ccseabass - 2009-07-10 14:07
Mr Cat (guest) - 2009-07-10 22:05
Oh yes it does! If it did have to be at the end of July, but a little later...
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