Since I got back from China I have noticed two things. Time flies, and I have had to use some time to get acquainted with life in Norway.

Bjørn Sindre and Julie busy cutting a Great Wall section

A week ago, I visited some good friends to the south of Oslo, and we spent an afternoon on a typical Norwegian Christmas activity: baking ginger bread.

Keeping in tradition with what I had spent the last 20 months doing, we managed to create a Great Wall ginger bread house, fully equipped with a ginger bread soldier standing guard, and small jelly men (or were they women?) trying to get over the wall.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and hope you will check back in the new year for more pictures, videos and some posts I have yet to write.

Busy at work, all be it less strenuous than walking.

Julie decorating the walls

Putting the sections together.

Julie showing off the Great Wall ginger bread end product. Notice the soldier standing guard in front. He would probably be better off on the top of the Great Wall.