17th of May - the Norwegian Day!

Of course the 17th of May have to be celebrated, even down under. The first year I was here, it was a monday, so we had the day of, but this year, we had to skip college for the day... Some couldn't do that, but most of us went out to the city for the traditional parade and stuff. It was such a great day! The weather was perfect.


Heidi & Pauline at the train-station

We took the train to the city and went to Hyde Park, where all the Norwegians were gathering. There's heaps of Norwegian students in Sydney, so there was games and songs there before the parade. We even got "boller og saft". Oh yes, this was the day for all the Norwegian food.


"Finn 5 feil" - eller iallefall en...
The norwegian flag in the front, even a "rødruss", and palm trees in the back!!! How weird is that!!!


One of the guy's in the city was making a segment for P1, a norwegian radio-station.


The parade went from Hyde Park to Circular Quay, where the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge is.


Norwegian girls with the Opera House... Notice the norwegian "bunad" that the lady on the left is wearing..

Copenhagen Ice Cream at Circular Quay. I know we're celebrating freedom from the dane's, but it was the closest to norwegian icecream we got...

After the icecream we took the ferry over to Manly and the bus up to the Norwegian Seaman's church, "Sjømannskirken", there. They had heaps of norwegian food, Rømmegrøt, spekemat, pølse med brød, vaffle... you name it... It was SOOO great!

Oline and Nina on the ferry

Kris and Sindre

Me and the Opera House

Just had to put this in here as well... what a great day to go sailing, hey...?

At "sjømannskirken", eating norwegian food!!! YAY!!!

Then we went back to the Hills, and had cake and snacks at the girls' house. Pauline had made "marengs-jordbær" cake, it was so good! We just hang out there for a while and looked at pictures from the celebrations in Norway and other places in the world on the web, we even found a couple from Sydney... Was a great 17th of May!!!