Almost Home

Kevin arrived at the New York house late on Saturday night safely, but not without incident. During the flight from Oslo to Newark, the pilot announced that because of heavy winds the plane was running out of gas, so they had to make an emergency landing in Gander, Newfoundland to refuel. I'm not a happy, easy going passenger, and I think I would have flipped out a little about an announcement like that! Nothing ever fazes Kevin, though, and he was only slightly annoyed that his very long flight ended up taking an extra hour.
Anyway, he's at the new house now and progress has been made. We have cable (plus DVR--yay!) hooked up, a couple of the rooms have already been tiled, and Kevin has hauled in some of the small appliances we bought on our last trip back. (It's too bad we gave away all of our appliances when we moved to Norway, but now we have the chance to get brand new, shiny things. Like a Dyson Animal vacuum cleaner--I know, I'm incredibly lame to be excited about this, but with so many furry beasts, a good vacuum cleaner is worth cheering about!) Our new driveway is lined with apple and pear trees, so Kevin picked a bunch of Empire apples too--yum!
I can't believe that I'll be in our new home in one week--I have a few last things to do, like take the animals to their final vet appointments for their health certificates, and a bit of sorting through things and giving away what we don't want to move, but this Norwegian experience is almost over for me. I'm trying to take in everything I can--I even got up early enough to catch the sunrise over the lake this morning (pictured above). Not like that was too difficult of a feat--the sun rises at about 7:45 these days, and it is completely dark again by 4:00. I also took the dogs for a long walk through the forest this afternoon, but unfortunately I didn't see any moose or hedgehogs...I am still hoping for one more moose encounter before I go!