The seventeenth of May

Celebrating the seventeenth with all this snow around is certainly a new experience - but the weather has been perfect all day, so we haven´t missed the green too much.


As almost everyone in town joined the parade, we had noone to cheer and sing to, but we cheered and sang anyway.




Emma was one of the three to carry the school´s standard.


Thomas´class - Thomas on the far right.



Peter cheering.


Afterwards there were speeches in Russian and Norwegian, and salutes (by cannon or maybe dynamite, it was hard to tell).


And after that - entertainment and café in the sports hall.



I didn´t catch much of the entertainment-part, as Peter´s class (that is, the parents) was responsible for the café, and that was a lot of work.




We´ve now settled for the lazy part of the day - the one with the leftovers...