Jenn & Romy

We just got off the bus and took a picture by the Space Sciences Laboratory in Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. It was a nice clear sunny day today!

Jenn

Shopping at Berkeley Bowl, where the nuts are off the shelf!

Romy

The pooping tiger has a stick today!

Jenn & Romy

Today we took a walk in Chabot Regional Park near Bort Meadow in the evening. Everything was really dry and they cut down some of the grass. It was almost unrecognizable from what it looks like in the spring!

Romy

Me, at home, now awake for 26+ hours and feeling out of it after a whole day of travel.

Jenn

I spent almost all day making three fabric panel pieces of art. The one behind me is probably my favorite, although it didn't come out perfect. Oh well! I think its cool anyway!

Romy

Kinda really drunk out with Erik in Oslo at some random bar. Good times! This was probably taken around 2am, but that's still Friday in my head...

Jenn

Today I went to IKEA and JoAnn Fabrics to buy fabric for my new Etsy online shop - making fabric wall panels! Hopefully it will work out. If not, half the fabric I got was really cheap ($0.99-$3.49/yd), and the other half was IKEA price ($7.99-$8.99/yd), which isn't too bad.

Romy

This is the apartment I was put into for one night, the day before leaving Trondheim. It kinda sucked by comparison.

Jenn

Getting on the bus! Going home! Today I submitted my first paper ever to GRL!

Jenn

My face is shiny because its sooo hot again! I am showing off the purse I sewed last night, but I'm not sure if I really like it yet. I think I might make a better one soon.

Romy

OMFG, I'm cooking stuffs!

Jenn

I look a little pissed and tired because I got lost trying to find the Paramount Theater in Oakland, so I ended up walking around the entire Lake Merritt, probably 5 miles, on the hottest day of the year! It was 90 degrees!

Romy

foto of mofoto!

Jenn

These flowers are popping up everywhere and blooming now! They are bright pink with no foliage other than the bloom itself!

Romy

Hiking back from the cabin, with the sun out and blue sky over the tundra! It was a great hike back.

Romy

Kinda cheating, but the pic I took of me for this day didn't come out good. This is the cabin I stayed at last night called Kamtjønnkoia. It was about a 2.5hr drive to the trailhead, and another 3hr hike up to it. It snowed over night, but was a lot of fun!

Jenn

We hiked up to Sentinel Dome near Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park and had an awesome view of the high Sierra, all the way to the crest, and we saw the skinny view of Half Dome!!

Jenn

There was a fire restriction in Stanislaus National Forest, so we gathered around the Deitz lamp instead. There was a freaky red fairy flying over our heads! We set up the camera on Julie's tripod and took a long exposure shot.

Romy

Driving back to Trondheim from Hitra we saw this small lake (Gangåsvatnet) and it was just too picturesque to not stop.

Romy

Camping out on Hitra near Ansnes. We just kind of pulled off and set up the tent in some field. In Norway, this is allowed and is called allemannsrett, ie All man's right. Super bonus. We got there kind of late though, so didn't see much else except the drive there (which was amazing).

Jenn

I got chicken wire today to seal off the hole in the wall behind the heater where the mouse is coming in every night. Hopefully it stops the mouse!

Romy

Today we went orienteering in the regional park next to Trondheim called Bymark. It was a lot of fun and the park was filled with wild blueberries and raspberries. I think we did more eating than orienteering! Sintef and a few other companies do this twice a week as apparently orienteering is a big thing in Norway.

Jenn

Sitting at my desk, working on my CV. It was really sunny and warm today. I think I forgot to shut the window before I left, but it was only cracked open a little.

Romy

Just me sitting at my desk at work/school (don't know what to call it). Nothing much exciting today...

Jenn

Taking the Hill Line bus line to school. Today I have my EPS orientation and in the evening, a pub crawl around Berkeley!

Jenn

I was really hungry tonight! I devoured the whole thin crust pizza for dinner! But it was salty, so now I'm really thirsty!

Romy

Eating some Fruktmuseli and 18% fat yogurt for b-fast!

Jenn

Folding the laundry after getting home from the Lake Tahoe camping trip. I had two loads of laundry!

Jenn

Near the summit of Mt Tallac (9,700 ft), the tallest mountain at Lake Tahoe. The hike was strenuous with an elevation gain of 3,300ft and a total round trip of just under 10 miles. What a great view!!!

Romy

First bay window I've seen in Norway!!!! Sweet!

Jenn

Coming back down the mountain on our group hike up to Velma Lake in the Desolation Wilderness (Eldorado National Forest) at Lake Tahoe. We hiked a little over 10 miles with a 2,000ft elevation gain to an alpine lake. When we got to it, we went swimming!

Romy

Standing in front of the Leif Ericson statue in Trondheim.

Jenn

Arriving at Lake Tahoe with the EPS grad student group. We went swimming our first day. The water was pretty cold but it was so hot outside! We camped at Sugar Pine Point State Park on the California side.

Romy

I'm standing in front of the Hovedbygget, which means something like the main building or home building. It's the original building for the NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and is right next to the building I'm working in for the SINTEF project.

Romy

Woot for beer in a can! This stuff is the cheapest we can get, and is still over $3 a can!

Jenn

Today I brought all the camping stuff with me to school for the EPS grad student camping trip to Lake Tahoe! It was really foggy in the morning where I parked the car. So foggy I had to turn on my lights so other cars would see me!

Jenn

Watching a documentary (a few of them actually!) tonight.

Marcel

I;m cutting our home grown tomatoes for the Rajma

Nicole

Here I am eating Rajma in the front yard.

Jenn

I am finishing Twilight! All 498 cheesy vampire pages of it!

Nicole & Marcel

Here we are at the Union Pier beach.

Romy

I'm standing in the cemetery area of the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. It's an old church, but has apparently changed a lot since it was first built - look at the link above.

Jenn

In the background is the rock and mineral collection on display on the third floor of McCone Hall, nearby my office.

Nicole & Marcel

Cooking the Lake Trout that we bought for $1.23 a pound at Jewel.

Marcel

Me standing by a open tank by the subway in Michigan City

Romy

Me in the Sintef office in Trondheim. This is actually not the desk I'll be using in a few days, but whatever. It has an electric motor that allows it to pan up and down...sweet.

Marcel and Marcel

This is me and me in the bathroom

Marcel Nicole and Jenn

This is a picture of us g chatting

Romy

In Andalsnes, standing next to Jenns bug! We had to wait around most of the day for the train to leave (at 4:16) so we fully toured Andalsnes.