I'm jes goin' home..

I'm back to "work". After a lovely week with a visit from Monica.

She was lucky enough to come just in time to hear my favorite choir perform. I thought we sounded pretty good, and their Norwegian was flawless. But what els can you expect when I'm the teacher?

The real reason why we had the concert was because the Ultima Thule choir came all the way from Tromsø just to sing with us. Here we are on stage all of us; the Norwegian Ladies Chorus, The Norwegian Male Chorus and Ultima Thule.
Together with the ladies from Tromsø, we performed Going Home by Anonin Dvorak, and I felt kind of sad. "Mother's there expecting me, Father's waiting to. Lots of folks gathered there, all the friends I knew". I almost started crying, but I didn't. Though I think maybe the song is about dying in stead of going home..

The next day we visited Space Needle, I don't think you can go to Seattle and not visit Space Needle. The view was amazing. Even though there was some clouds we could still see Mount Rainier in the background. And of course, we had to take tourist pictures;

 

For the weekend, Julie the conductor of my favorite choir had invited me and Monica up to Norway park for midsummer. Norway Park is the place where the Norwegian American has their cabin. When we walked in, it was just like coming in to a typical Norwegian cabin. It was very nice. 

They had a HUGE bonfire 

Nice people;

(Because of my lack of photo taking skills I had to make this black and white so the weird colors would not show) This is Barb, Victoria, Julie and Kari. The nicest people ever!


And I was very happy because I found a string of lights to put around my neck.