Thursday 31 January 2008

Oslo - a success

My trip to Oslo was a success; it would have been even better if it had snowed while I was there, but it had snowed recently and it was very pretty. I didn't take the photo, but that's the National Theatre (I think) and our hotel was very close by, and the scene looked just like this. It's such a shame that Norway is so expensive, otherwise it would be a great holiday destination. Put it this way - I paid for dinner for myself and my colleague: we went to a steakhouse, and had a starter, main course, side dish and one and a half pints of beer, and that came to £100.
I guess if we want snow and pine trees we'll just go to Siberia instead!

Swap Night

It's Thursday night and we've decided to make it this week's "Swap Night". We tried this last week for the first time, to give Olga a full night's undisturbed sleep. She feeds Lara around 9-10pm, then goes to bed, and I look after the later feeds using expressed milk. Tonight I've "topped her up" around midnight and she's sleeping, and hopefully that will see her through till 4am, I'll feed her then, and that should be good until 7am when we'll go and wake Mum in the spare bedroom.
I'd go to bed straight after her midnight feed but Dirty Harry is on ITV4 and I just can't resist watching it to the end. I did miss the "Go ahead, make my day" line though. It's nice to see bits of San Francisco I recognise from our 2005 holiday.
We had the same thing last week, we watched the Nicholas Cage film "Honeymoon in Vegas" (NOT the one where he tries to drink himself to death!) which had scenes in Vegas and Hawaii that we remembered. He used a phone in Waimea on Kauai next to the statue of James Cook that we have a photograph of!