A Quick Fix

Last week I wrote about how homesick I was...I feel better now. Shallow as I am, the Dunkin Donuts coffee and stack of People magazines that Kevin brought back with him from New York really helped! (I suppose the fact that he himself is also back from New York didn't hurt, either!) Plus, we have lots of fun plans for summer to anticipate. Kevin's company owns a hytte up in Beitostolen, and every weekend they have a company-wide lottery for its use. We won, so on Friday we will pack up the dogs for a weekend in the mountains. I'm not sure how rustic the hytte is, so everybody pray for indoor plumbing with me, okay? Friends from the U.S. are visiting us during the first week of July and I think we'll try to see the Geiranger fjord and the art nouveau architecture of Ålesund (and hopefully a puffin or two on the surrounding islands). We are going to the U.S. for the second week of July (Kevin has a trade show in Las Vegas and I'm going to New York to see my mom and friends). The last two weeks of July, Kevin's dad and stepmom will come to see us. We're planning to drive all the way up to the north of Norway, past Dovrefjell and the muskoxen, through Trondheim, up to Tromsø and then over to Svalbard to see the polar bears. Who has time for homesickness? Not me!