Zach

Coming Home

I’m coming home August 9th. Sounds really soon to me. I guess I have gotten used to living and working here in Oslo. Make sure to pick up your ticket for the Festival of Beer at your local beerstore! We’re going lucky Sunday the 13th.

Holmenkollen

Holmenkollen

Holmenkollen is the site of a massive ski jump that can be seen for miles. It has been rebuilt for ski championships and olympics again and again. Norway just got the World Ski Champs for 2011 and there is talk of doing it all again.

You can go right up to the top and the view is incredible — you can see all of oslo. In the base is a ski museum with skis over 1000 years old. There is also a funny ski simulator that is kinda crap and this picture of a guy skiing at the olympics wearing a tie. So cool.

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The Streets – Memento Mori

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Barongsai

Ohhhhh shit. We found it. Hip hop in Norway.

This place is small and downstairs, but people who go here like hip hop, and I like people who like hip hop. They also play rap music here, which I enjoy aswell. There was also this old guy who was going crazy on the dancefloor before anyone else was dancing. You can see him behind me in one of these photos.

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Frognerparken

As soon as you see the gate to the park, the scale of it is obvious. This park is massive and monumental. I took a walk through it the other day and I was blown away. If it were in Canada it would be pot smoking location #1. But, since pot here is practically heroin it was only full of asian tourists, Norwegians “enjoying the weather” and no pot smoking Canadians.

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Adicolor Party

[mygal=adicolor] Adicolor Toronto was pretty fun. The bartenders were a little sassy, but they were giving away free beer–so what-evs. They got one of the guys from Fighting and some other artist-guy to do up custom adicolor t-shirts. What else? Oh ya, those Keith Haring shoes are hot. [mygal=shoes]