I went to Oslo, Norway last weekend, and it was absolutely amazing. It snowed, and we did a lot of snowy things, which were all really great. Everything in Norway was so expensive, I'm sort of glad that we were only there for one day so that I wasn't tempted to buy things. In a way, I wish that I had gotten a souvenir, but then again, I took pictures, so I guess that's good enough. The hotel we stayed at was really cool and really modern. The bed was the most comfortable hotel bed that I have ever experienced in my entire life. Its definitely in my top two most comfortable beds of all time, which says a lot because I'm very picky about beds.
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| Me in Oslo, Norway! Woo!! |
The best two things about my stay in Oslo were the breakfast buffet at the hotel (mighty plentiful) and ice skating (yes, I fell down, and no, I didn't even care). The breakfast consisted of eggs made in scrabbled, sunny side up, omelette, hard boiled, and soft boiled forms. They also had pastries, rolls, smoothies, coffee, tea, apple juice, orange juice, bacon, sausage, cereal, yogurt, and fruit. I was upset that I became full after a certain point because I wanted so badly to keep eating, but I just couldn't. The dinner was only okay, so I wasn't expecting much come breakfast time, but it was great! Definitely exceeded my expectations and then some.
Ice skating was really fun too! The rink was outdoors, and it was located in the town center somewhere (I think). They played American, UK, and Norwegian pop music through speakers located on a tower in the center of the rink. It was about 40 Krone person (I think), which translates to about £4.50 or about $7.00ish. That's pretty decent considering it could be up to £25 in London and the equivalent to that in New York as well during the prime ice skating seasons. It was very surprising in a city where the Big Mac meal at MacDonald's was about £12! Yikes! Anywho, I had fun, and I would definitely go back to Norway (when I'm a famous/rich choreographer).
I am pleased to say that I have added two more trips to my already insane traveling itinerary for the first half of 2012. I am now going to Prague, Edinburgh, Turin, Milan, Verona, Lima, and Cusco! I am also looking to add a few more in there, but as of now, those are the trips that are already booked. I feel like this is a dream. Never in a million years did I think that I would be traveling to all these places. It was always a dream of mine, and I always knew that I wanted to travel a lot, but now that its actually a reality, its such a different feeling. I can hardly describe it.
Of course, life is never perfect, and there are always things that you wish you could change. There are always hardships, whether it be in your family, friendships, relationships, school, work, etc., there isn't one single person who can say that their life is 100% perfect. That's probably the best thing that I could have learned in this crazy-fast month, but this also taught me that I need to not focus so much on what I don't have, and focus on what I do have. There is so much to look forward to, especially in the course of the next six months for me, and no matter what else is happening around me and how sad or stressed out I may get, I can't ever forget about how lucky I am to be here. As long as I keep that in mind, there's no reason for me to ever be ungrateful.
