As I've already written earlier, only four days after the New Year's invasion had ended, my sister arrived in Norway. Unfortunately she had to explore Oslo by herself on the first day while I had to work. The next three days however were spent pretty close together – snowboarding in Hemsedal. Whoopee!
After a four hour bus ride – we had the thing almost to ourselves – my sis, my flatmate Magnus who spontaneously joined in, and me arrived in that small town halfway between here and Bergen at around 2 on Friday. Due to an idiotic rule we weren't allowed to enter our cottage until 5 though. After killing some time by walking to town and eating pizza, we settled into our small but cozy apartment. Half an hour of chilling and then we already had to get dressed to hit the slopes. Yupp, night snowboarding! Seriously, it was killer! I had never done that before, and even though there were only three pistes open / floodlit it was heck of fun. The Austrian and Swiss skiing areas should definitely offer more of that.
Despite being feverish and sore after that night for the rest of the weekend, it was still great to be riding again – the last time for me had already been a year back. On Saturday we had clear blue skies and a lot of icy patches and on Sunday gray skies but perfect snow. So a little bit of everything I guess. We arrived back in Oslo on Sunday around 9 and continued with what we had been doing the past days besides snowboarding – stuffing ourselves with junk food...
On Monday my sis and I went on a quick and unsuccessful trip up to Frogneseteren (stupid fog) before she was off to Germany again. Altogether, good seeing her again and definitely a cool time up north!
