Catch up...

Sorry its been a few days since the last post.  This past Saturday was a busy day, we drove into Stavanger Sentrum (city center), just to get some fresh air and walk around in town.  Bestemor sent over some newspaper clippings of things to do, and there was a display of gingerbread houses.  After we purchased my Norwegian iPhone we found the location of the gingerbread village.  It was so cute, and it even had an electric Santa train running through the houses.  Some of the houses looked professionally decorated and others looked like Rebecca and I had made them.  She has been begging me to make a gingerbread house, so I think in the next few weeks we will construct one.  Here are some of the photos I took of the gingerbread village…

Santa's train moving at high speeds

Rebecca's favorite…Hello Kitty

These two could have watched Santa's train fly around the corner forever…

Then in the afternoon, I met Gunn at Kvadrat (shopping mall in Sandnes) for a little shopping.  She gave me much needed information on the types of stores, although I am sure I will be asking a lot of repeat questions.  Things are a lot different here in Norway than at home in Houston, I miss my Target and HEB!!

Update on Car Shopping - We did buy my car, its a Volvo V50, I am really liking it.  I haven't had any issues parking as of today.  It isn't any of the cars I drove on the first two days, I found it when I was solo.  I did take the kids back and transferred both car seats for a test drive, being tall isn't all its cracked up to be…we need leg room and with car seats involved I had to make sure everyone was comfortable.  I enjoy driving a manual transmission again, but I could change my mind if I get stuck in traffic too many times ;-)