Vacation Countdown

Six weeks or so from now, we’ll be off to Norway for the Viking Queen’s wedding. It will make exactly a year to the week that I was last in Norway and this trip will mark LF’s first trip to Europe. I’ve never been to a gay wedding before, but this wedding will be particularly meaningful because it’s legal. LF and I won’t understand a word of their vows, but I’ll probably get a little choked up seeing my best Scandinavian girl all grown up and getting married. Plus, the Viking Queen’s soon-to-be husband is completely dreamy. There are not enough superlatives in the book to adequately describe his dreaminess.

We’ll be staying with the happy couple in Oslo, but LF and I are going to branch off on our own for a couple of days before the wedding and do the touristy thing. We just booked the Norway in a Nutshell tour, which is a train trip that will take us from Oslo up through the fjords and over to Bergen via the Flåm railway and the Bergen railway. I’m particularly excited about the Flåm Railway though. We’ll spend a couple of nights in Bergen and then take the one-hour flight back to Oslo and begin the countdown to the wedding.

I know the trip is going to fly by and we’ll be back in Baltimore before we even realize that we were on vacation. I definitely envy the Europeans with their many weeks of vacation time they get each year. A week is barely enough time to get adjusted to time zone differences, let alone get a feel for a foreign city. We’ll take what we can get though. We are very fortunate to have good friends host us and show us Oslo through their eyes. Besides, how often do you get the opportunity to spend $10 per draft beer? A girl like me could die of thirst living in Norway full-time.