Big progress in the adoption process

Hi everyone.

After 2 years with unsuccessfull IVF tries, a year with paperwork and half a year waiting for the results from the colombian authorities we are finally at the point where ordinary couple would say: "we are pregnant" or "we are expecting" because today we got the approval for adoption from Colombia.

However the waiting time from now would roughly be about 3 years, but its like a promise of a baby we got today.
Not twins or a whole family at once, but one little girl or a boy from 0-2 years old.
This is to be celebrated big time.

Summer guests.

This summer Veti's sister Maylinda with her two kids Aranit and Ebigell have had their schools summer vacation in Norway with us.
They came early June and are going to stay till the school starts late August.
This is their first vacation outside Albania ever, and they have had so much fun even thou the summer weather has been horrible in here.

Condo renovation

We have been working like mad for the past two weeks painting our condo.
Our part is the upstairs part only, but the owner below painted his too.
Here's the before and after:

More updates

Hi.
Yesterday we went for a full day programme again, it started with a pickup from the Hotel at 08.30 AM and we went straight to a cultural dance show followed by a trip to factory outlets first a textile factory, then a silver jewelry factory and at the end a wood carving outlet.
Souvenirs were bougth at all places and here are the pictures.

Later on the same day we went to see the ricefields and a ecological coffee plant on our way to and from the Vulcano mountain where we had lunch.

It was really cool to try out all the different types of coffee and tea they made there and we got some at their store before we left...

At the end of the journey we went to feed monkies in Ubud.

Bali updates

Hi.
Yesterday we did a full day program.
Rafting and Elefant Safari

Today Ole-Kristian went out to the Nusa Dua Reef to snorkle.

Bali - Nusa Dua Beach Hotel and Spa

Hi folks.
We are having so much fun in here, this is a really really nice place and we would recommend all of you to do a holiday in here some day.
Our Hotel is a Spa resort with all kinds of spa facilities, 6 pools, 8 restaurants, and tonns of recration and fitness opportunities.
Yesterday Veti had an appointment at the hairdresser in our hotel and right now she is doing a 1.5 hour antiaging facial spa and on top of that she is going to have a 15min neck and shoulder Balinese oil massage.

Here is some pictures from our pool life.

Tomorrow we are going for a Elefant ride thru the jungle and rafting on one of the wild rivers in here.
We will update our blog with more pictures in a couple of days.

Let the fun begin

I arrived in Singapore yesterday, and so far I am having a wonderful time.

Yesterday I got here at 4pm. The trip was long and I slept little on the plane, but we managed to walk to see the city and we went to a water show last night and Ole Kristian had made a reservation at a restaurant after the show. You can find all the brands in here, but most people prefer Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton or Burberry. This city is just shops, litterary shops, and people in here are very fashionable. People go out in Prada shoes, Burbery clothes, and Gucci bags. The little kids walks around in Burberry clothes, its crazy.

Today i went to see the platform West Elara its called. It is very big, We went on the tour for two hours and I still wasn't seeing all of it.

There were about 1300 people working on it and I was the only woman on the platform, they were stairing like they have never seen a woman before. 95% of the workers were indians and the working conditions on those workers weren't the best conditions, but they were given helmets and glasses. As Ole Kristian was trying to give me a tour on the plattform, many indian workers as soon as they saw Ole Kristian they tried to find their glasses and helmets to put it on. After seeing West Elara it was time to eat lunch at 11 and everyone lined up to get out of the rig to go to the food court and we were touring just a little more and by the time we were done the line was really long, but as soon as they saw us they open the way for us to go ahead, I felt embarassed to cut in front of the line, I would have been happy to wait in line to get out of the plattform, but they see the Norwegians as the owners of the rig. So the Norwegians comes first at everything on this plattform.

I went home and went to sleep til Ole Kristian came back from work. Its Sunday today and he came home early from work, so we managed to take the taxi to the beach and were there for few hours. One the way back to took the cable lift, where you can see all over Singapore. It was a twenty minutes ride but it was amazing to see and experience.
Here are some the pictures.