Itssssssssssssssssss fall break yo giiiiizzzze
N its pretty
Damn
Chill tbh
Im in bergen
At Ingrids house and first off her house is dope
The location of it is the cool part
Its in this like
Well its more the outskirts of bergen, technically called "Litle Sotra" (with a Bergen "r" so it SOUNDS like "lilleh sohtughea")
Theres a normal Sotra, which is a bigger island thats a little further away and then i guess they were like "oh dang we already named this other island Sotra so we hafta name this new island Little Sotra"
Lol
ANYWAY
The house is located basically on a cliff
Its like a hundred foot fall its fuckn awesome
Tore, Ingrids dad, likes to idly make things, so he built a balcony that is like RIGHT ON the cliff with like a little gazebo typa thing with like deck couches
He just added a drainpipe to the roof of it on saturday
Its so cooooooooool
You look right down into the ocean from this cliff coz its on the side of a fjord
The geography of the area is pretty cool the whole island is cliffs and mountains
I donno the actual phenomenon of it but the Ingrid told me that if you walk along the island north to south/ south to north your okay but east to west/ west to east is a huge pain in the ass coz all the cliffs face west- its like a whole bunch of platforms that got tipped on one side, all on the same side
And then people went to build houses here lol
But yea as far as how tje vacation is actually going its good
We walk Plet the dogger once a day in like thw middle of the day for excercise purposes and then we do other stuff
Weve been sleepn in
And its just us here lately coz weekdays Ingrids fam has school and jobs so its just me ingrid n plet
But yea we walk plet out on the coolio no mans land off to the side of Ingrids house its so fuckn cool she basicallly has a hikimg trail for a backyard with a buncha clifffs into the ocean
Its also pocketed woth ponds and minilakes
One we stopped at was pretty big actually and on the other side of it were these big cliffs that i really wanted to MAYBE jump from but i probly wouldnt have the balls for it lol
We chilled there for a while and i made a dog voice joke about how Plet didnt wanna go in the water coz sea monsters and then Igrid was like
"Lol actually there ARE sea monsters in this lake"
"N im like lolk"
N shes like
"Yea we have fish in here big enough and agressive enough to bite off toes"
N just as she said it there was a splash like 200 feet away in the water in the middle of a buncha seagulls and they all flew away in hurry lol
(Turns out its Pike in there, thems the monsters thatll bite off ya toes)
She also said theres freshwater eels
So its a pretty seamonstery combination
Of course all that information made me do was wanna build an RC research submersible with cameras and huntm down
I think later that day was when we went rowing and one of the oars broke lol
Good thing we know how to make new ones HAHA
We also hiked another mountain with plet, and it was way steep
The second half of the climb is like all across rocks and its fun the view was great
Plet is so great
Shes a sheepdoggo so its easy to take her off her leash coz her instict tells her to stay with the group
Her favorite toy is a sheep skin
Its hilarious you just pick it up and run it all over her face and she bites it and geowls and its hilarious she sorta reminds me of kaiser except she doesnt wrestle
Shes also not completely insane and barking at every chance she has lol
Mmmmguhhhh just came back to this post havent written on it in a while
Sorry guys this is getting harder to keep up maybe ill just so more frequent small ones or sommn
Anyways
The rest of the vacation was a buncha hikes across gorgeous ass cliffy rock mountains
We also visited one of Ingrids friends in bergen
Who has like a cool basement apartment and you can see up one of the mountains to the big light tower on top where the cable car ends
We also watched all the pirates of the carribean movies except the first one
And god damn
I fucking LOVE pirates yo jesus christ
Pirate stuff is awesome lol wtf
The movies themselves arent even like
THAT GOOD
Theyre just so unbelievebly fun
And Barbossas voice is the best
Uhh
Yea we also went up the cable car gondola and met Ingrids OTHER friend who works up there running the cable cars
So thats pretty cool
Om the way up we met a parasailer with his big huge paraglider backpack
He met up with another dude at the top and we snuck around after them for like two hours trying to catch them jumpim off but eventually we got bored coz they were taking too long and we went to go down and then all the sudden they got onto our cable car and went down WITH us lol
They said the wind was bad
So they figured insteada jumping and dying theyed rather take the gondola lol
Nthen onna the last things we did was watch swiss army man
Me ingrid and elisabeth (ingrids friend with the basement apartment)
They just thought it was wierd and silly but i liked it
Ive never seen anything that manages to turn farts into metaphors
It COULD have been super sad but it opted for happy ending
Thats a trend thats sort starting to annoy me but i dont hafta rant about movies now
I just feel like it coulda been way stronger if it had gone the sad path because like
In the happy ending scenario its like
Theres no consequence for any of the shit that happened
Like the whole journey was for nothing
Like
"Oh so yea the knight went along and killed the dragon and then he saved the princess"
Mkay-
So
The dragons dead and you have a girlfriend now, but
I dont care?
So everyones happy
Thats not interesting yo
Maybe like
"Mkay the knight went to save the princess and fought the dragon and it was an unbeleibable battle resulting in the death of the dragon AND the knight"
Now i get to have a cool story about the princess, coz no shes still locked in this tower and her true love or whatever is DEAD
Or
"The knight fought and killed the dragon but in the fight the princess died"
Now the knight is sad and he lost the love of his life (maybe)
So whatll he do now?
Go on a crusade against every dragon?
So like
"Crazy guy does crazy things and the audience can relate with him on a very human level- queue the introduction to characters that dont know crazy man- now all his craziness is obvious and hes completely alien and alone and sad and doesnt want to be with them anymore, he wants to sink back into his lovely crazy comfortable life- and so he runs away but all the other people chasem and see all the stuff he made and they understand him and then its okay."
NO
NO
I say leave it when he realizes hes insane
When he REALIZES hes changed his mind
When he REALIZES that o shit
I dont actually WANT to become unlost
I dont WANT to be with these people
But its too late
The impact is sooooooooo muccccccch heavier
Because thwn when people leave the theatre theyre all like
"WHYYYYY COULDNT THEY HAVE JUST LET HIM BEEEE?????
WHHHHYYYYYYY DID THEY TAKE HIM OUT OF THE WOODS NOOOOOOOOOO"
Instead of like
"Ohhhhhhhhh look they understand him and he taught them all a lesson"
Because if the point is to teach the audience a lesson
Like
"Dude its okay to be ashamed, lemme just tell you the fun way by showing you daniel radcliffes ass and with a buncha fart and dick jokes"
Then do it by making them emotiobally INVESTED
Coz when you break the audiences heart they REMEMBER
...
.........
LOL i said i wouldnt rant about movies and here i am
Also i may have just spoiled swiss army man so ill apologize for that
uhhmmmm
What else did we do[oooooo
O we went on another hike along this really beautiful rock coast and Ingrids dad fished of a cliff and caught like ten mackerel and a huge cod in like an hour
N then we ate mackerel on a cool rock cliff with a fire and it was pretty cool
Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd
Uhm
O i found my new favorite norwegian candy
SEIGEMENN
it essentially means "gummy men"
And theyre just gummy men with sugar powder on them
BUT
You can stick them TOGETHER
ITS AMAZING
but yea
My next goal is to make stilts
Shouldnt be so hard coz of all the wood and tools we have here
I got a cool plan for my costume but ill leave it a secret for now
You need to find a way to get pics of your hikes and dogs, and if I don't see your costume and stilts I'm gonna fish a sea monster out of that lake and hunt you down! Glad you had a nice time in Bergen.
ReplyDeleteI love that you got to hang out with Plet. Dogs are important. So are sea monsters. And fresh fish. And yes, movies that aren't Disney endings are powerful.
ReplyDeleteHappy that you are so entranced with pirates. A word of warning, however: stay away from Somalia -- and beware of boats with black flags.
ReplyDeleteI flew over Bergen in my googlemaps3d drone. I flew along the north coast of Litle Sotra looking for Ingrid's house. Were you on Svensvegen? Anywhere near the Hjelteryggen Skule? North or South of that big (rte 555) bridge from Breidvika?
ReplyDeleteSounds like a phenomenal fall break time.
Your mom showed us your snapchat pics -- the cable ride etc -- wowza.
How long is Christmas break?
So there were three tunnels between Bergen and LitleSotra (if you took 555 -- which on the maps looks like the only possible path)?
ReplyDeleteThe scenery -- using Google 3d -- looks completely incredible.
Duuuuuuuude. Thank God your mom told me you posted. I gave up looking Avery night to see nothing there. Glad all is well and interesting. No life is like a Disney movie. They never live happily ever after. The good ones live through it all happy, sad, stressful, richer and poorer. That is what makes us all stronger for when the "pirates" which steal our happiness come calling again. You learn if you can conquer black jack and survive you can take on the whole crew.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear about your journey! What an expieriences. I "hafta" admit as you would say I am a tad jealous. Mccreas is cranking 10 batch days and the shelves are empty. We made 500 party boxes Saturday. Thanks for sharing.-
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