Made It!

I’m in Oslo! I got here at 12:30 Monday afternoon after leaving B’more at 9 o’clock Sunday night. I didn’t sleep at all on the way to Iceland or to Oslo, so my first afternoon here was a bit of a blur. I was not so groggy that I neglected to hit the duty-free booze at the Oslo airport though. I grabbed several flaskes rødvin for 309 kroners. A steal!!!

Yesterday, while Lars the Viking Queen was at work, I took a really long walk around his part of Oslo. Not once did anyone ask me for money, solicit me for prostitution, threaten me, or sexually harass me. Where am I? The only thing that makes me stand out a little is the fact that my hair is really dark compared to everyone else’s. Other than that, I am unique just like everyone else! No one even notices me.

Last night Lars took me into downtown Oslo for dinner. We could have gone into TGI Fridays or had 7-11 hot dogs (there are 7-11s on every corner here), but something would have felt really wrong about that. We had a nice dinner and a flaske rødvin at a place whose name I can’t remember. Lars texted a lesbian co-worker of his and asked her where the dykes go on a Tirsdag (Tuesday) in Oslo. So we went to some bar whose name I also can’t remember. We only stayed for one glass rødvin because apparently “tragic” is universal when it comes to visiting lesbian bars on a week night. We left as soon as we finished our drinks.

While Lars is at work today, I’ve been given the task of findind the local liquor store and getting more wine. He drew a map on a coffee filter using various 7-11s as markers.

Side note unrelated to anything else in this post: Icelandair flight attendants wear the hottest uniforms I’ve ever seen! It made their bitchiness totally bearable.