Cross Country Skiing

We finally decided to become Norwegian and take up cross country skiing!  We bought boots, skis, poles, and wax on Thursday.  Our first lesson was today.  We had some falls but it was fun.  One interesting part was that part of the time, we skied on a frozen lake. 

Where we went skiing

With our skis, tired after skiing

Hadeland Glassverk

Today we took a bus outside of Oslo to Hadeland Glassverk.  It was a long but beautiful ride through the countryside. They have been making glass for over 250 years.  They had some amazing items, and the prices were even more amazing(ly high).  We ended up buying a bowl with a rim of green at the top.  Since it had grapes in the picture on the box, we call it our grape bowl.  The highlight of the trip was a glass blowing demonstration after which both of us were able to blow our own glass which we were able to keep.