The friendly viking

Today we went to the American Women's Club Halloween party. It was not quite like the Fall Fun Fest I am used to at church. I really missed that since this year Katherine would have really enjoyed it.

We actually had quite a rough time today. The party was in Sandvika, a suburb of Oslo. We took a bus (actually 2) to get there and it took half an hour. When we got to the venue, there was a sign that the location was changed. Apparently it had been double booked. The problem was that now we were there with no transportation and the bus only comes every 30 minutes. To top that off, it was rainy. We called and they sent someone to pick us up. It was so frustrating though. When we got there, it was very crowded and there were only a few games. You had to pay to get in as it was a fundraiser but you also had to pay for the food. I guess we are overall glad we went.

Katherine was a viking. We thought that was fun for the year we were in Oslo for Halloween. Mom made the helmet for us and we bought her a sword in Copenhagen. Everyone thought she was a boy but oh, well.

Katherine enjoyed the few games that there were. She got a cute stuffed dog as a prize in the fishing game.

Her favorite activity was the craft table where she was able to color and glue and play with stickers.

They had a witch's story time. It was a bunch of cute poems, songs and stories. It was weird though having so many adults and kids dress up as witch's and scary monsters. I am used to the church party where there is none of that.

To top off the day that did not go as planned, we had no idea how to get back to town from the new party location. We went to the bus stop that we saw and it only came once an hour on Sunday. Luckily we only had to wait about 10 minutes. We were headed to church and it did not stop where we needed it to so our pastor came to pick us up. Once at church we were going to put Katherine's costume back on to show everyone and the hat was missing. I am so upset and hope that they find it at the party because mom made it and I did not get a really good picture of Katherine in her costume.