Not warm.

Having come from New Orleans and LA and New York in the past few weeks, it didn't even occur to me that Oslo might not be sunny and warm warm warmy warm.

Ugh.



SO glad I packed a bunch of dress shirts and tshirts and suit jackets but no realjackets or rainjackets or even a sweatshirt.

SO glad the cheapest realjacket I can find is at Zara up the street but is SO overpriced because my US Dollars are about as valuable as a cup of blueberries.

This city super sucks.

Cold. Empty. Expensive.

Just like I remember it.

Norway!

I arrived and didn't die a horrible screaming volcanic death!

Yay!

I must admit that when I saw on the in-flight planetracker thing that we were flying southeast of Iceland and northeast of England my palms started to sweat a little because you can definitely see a brown ashy haze out there somewhat obscuring the sunrise.

But we landed safely. Phew.

Just walking out of the terminal I noticed several giants.




I hopped on the super-efficient super-fast airport express train to downtown Oslo.




Followed signs toward the Freedom Forum HQ...





And arrived at my hotel...




All the event producers and coordinators were hard at work.





It's so nice to not really have to worry about anything and to just be able to wander around and capture candid shots. Event photography is fun because noone really has any major expectations except that you kind of just capture the event as it happens. It's kind of hard to mess up or do a crappy job. MUCH less pressure than shooting a wedding.

Today is kind of my day off before the event kicks off tomorrow.

I went to Ett Glass, the little restaurant next to my hotel.



Enjoyed a Pepsi Max.



And some homemade meatballs!



They were incredibly good.

And I was feeling so happy.

Until I saw the bill and it was 230 Kroners.

Which equals $38.90.

Almost $40 for Pepsi and meatballs. This wasn't even a "nice" restaurant.

NORWAY IS FREAKIN EXPENSIVE Y'ALL!!!