That there above is a snippet of my memorable, Italian-infested weekend! Joined Xenia, Eric, and Valerie on Friday in Oslo, where they held a free concert outside the city hall (Rådhusplassen). We had the pleasure of seeing many famous Norwegian and non-Norwegian acts, including:

Alexander Rybak, who performed something other than “Fairytale”…well, he sang that too but we missed it, much to Xenia’s chagrin;

a-ha, you know—the “Take on Me” guys. Yeah, they’re Norwegian, if you didn’t know! I still can’t believe we saw A-Ha, for God’s sake…It’s so incredibly strange;

Tone Damli Aaberge;

Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes, and the fourth guy whose name I never remembered, who performed a raw mix of “Never Easy,” “If I Were A Boy” and “Free Falling” simultaneously;

Karpe Diem, hvor er’u bor hen a?;

Lene Marlin, who might have a picture of me on her digital camera;

and my personal favorite, the Icelandic beauty Yohanna, who you see above.
I have apparently turned out to be quite the Eurovision fanatic. I’m not so sure if that is a good thing, but I’m very glad that I got the chance to see her live. It was a whole different experience actually being there; her voice filled the entire arena and sounded so ethereal.

When the concert concluded up came the fireworks by Akerbrygga, and after that we wasted some time at a nearby amusement park, staring at the Ferris wheel (it was too expensive to ride), before settling on kveldsmat at McDonald’s. There were drunk girls with tampons and cigarettes.

Took the last trikk back to Eric’s mansion-house, where we lounged around some more before retiring.

A suivre–