First Signs of Spring

It's a little bit late since its already half way through spring...or is it summer. Anyway, season changes here are really nice - you get to see the full four seasons - some of the seasons though are a little tooooo long. But here is a picture of Spring trying to show it self. The flower is called Hvitveis - nice small white flowers that pop up as soon as they can smell spring.

National Day 17th May

17th of May is the national day in Norway - known as søttende/syttende mai (meaning May Seventeenth), Nasjonaldagen (The National Day) or Grunnlovsdagen (The Constitution Day). It is when the constitution was signed inEidsvoll on May 17th in the year 1814 which declared Norway an independent nation. It is quite a nice celebration (especially if the weather is nice - as it was this year) - with people wearing their traditional clothes called bunad. The common shout during the day is hurra...I guess it is a happy thing to be independent.

The worst part about it though is the traditional food eaten on the day - its pølse i brød (hotdogs in bread) or pølse i lompe (hotdogs in a potato flat bread) and ice-cream. In the evening, the traditional food to eat rømmegrøt (some kind of porridge that I haven't experienced yet). I don't know, but it doesn't really sound too exquisite. I guess everyone was toooooo happy about independence to think about food :-)