I wrote this blog post in real time, but it isn’t published before now… Feels weird to see this, since I’m on a diet right now where I can’t eat bread at all :bjorngrate: Or, I can, but I have to be very careful about it. Gosh, I miss pizza like this so much I like the benefits I get from the diet, but sadly I have to say that I love pizza more.  I was thinking a thousand times to not post this because it’s kind of a self torture, but then – pizza is sooo good and this is something to share for you who can eat bread! Oh well, I will not fuck up such a happy post I wrote long time ago with my emo-ness from today. LOL

THIS IS HOW WE ROLL PIZZA DOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Why buy a rolling pin to flatten pizza dough if you can use this fantastic vodka bottle????!!!!!!!! You can see my flatmate L’s hand (by the way, he at first wants to be called Lunken Banan on my blog but I don’t  know…………………………) on the right. He’s so greedy that he couldn’t even stop with his greedy actions (aka put on stuff) on his pizza for my picture! It was horrible to flatten the dough with this bottle, though. I managed to spill some vodka in my dough too………….

Well, I have a rolling pin. Actually two. But some people don’t give back things when they’re borrowing, so I guess I’ll never see them again anyways! :bjornblunk:

BUT.

That wasn’t what I wanted to blog about.

You’re a super weirdo if you haven’t noticed that I love food (unless this is your first time reading my blog), and not very surprisingly I also enjoy to cook. Not only does it save you a lot of money, but you can decide what ingredients you want to use. You have 100% control in what you put in your mouth, something you don’t always have when you’re eating fastfood. It takes some time though – and it can be a huge mess if you don’t have full control. But I like cooking and I don’t mind the little extra cleaning so I don’t mind spending my free time on it!

On this day L and I had homemade pizzas! We’re having very different taste so we rarely cook something together. But (almost!) everyone like pizza – you can add whatever you like on it.

L is……. not exactly a super skilled chef………. But he is one of the few guys I know that are willing to learn to cook food from the scratch. Most guys order their pizzas. Or, when they want to ~cook~ they put a frozen pizza in the oven. And if they feel like being Gordon Ramsay, they buy a pizza dough and add sauce and everything they have in their fridge. But rarely make a pizza from the scratch.

So, kudos to L that wants to learn to cook food from the scratch! Boys, if you want to impress a girl; going out to a fancy restaurant is nice, but cooking something nice all by yourself is even better! Besides, everyone can take us to a restaurant, so casual and boring!!

What I had on my pizza: olives, leek, gouda cheese, champignon, marinated chicken, bacon and homemade pizza sauce. Spices and herbs: a little pepper, oregano and a liiiittle basil. As you can see, not very much of each thing - but the food taste so much better if you give each ingredients a chance to be tasted! If you're curious about what L had on his pizza, you can see a little of it in the first picture!

I doubt that you are, but just in case some of you enjoy cooking and maybe are interested in my pizza dough and sauce recipe; I’ll share it here. Most for my own sake since it will be a lot easier to get it when I don’t have my cookbook with me. You’ll notice that my recipes are very easy to follow and have few ingredients. I like simple food the best – I don’t get how people can enjoy the tastes if there is too much stuff going on at once.

Ah, and of course, I’m such a coward that don’t dare to translate it to English because my English is too weak I don’t want anyone to blame me if their kitchen explode, so I better play safe. So here it is in Norwegian, translate with a translator yourself if you are desperate enough after these pizza recipes!

Hverken tynn eller tykk pizzabunn (2 små pizzaer)

halv pakke tørrgjær
7 dl hvetemel (bytt gjerne ut så mye du vil av dette til sammalt hvetemel for en grovere variant!!)
2,5 dl lunkent vann
1 ts salt

Må inrømme at jeg blir litt flau av å poste min fremgangsmåte, da jeg ikke husker noenting om gjørbakst fra heimkunnskap. Men jeg gjør det altså så simpelt som å blande ut gjæret i det kroppstempererte vannet, deretter blandet det med salt og til slutt mel.

Hvil hele greia i en bolle (tildekket!) i 30-40 minutter. I de 30-40 minuttene pleier jeg å lage pizza-sausen, perfekt tid til det!

Når deigen har hvilt skal den deles i to og kjevles veldig tynne. Ha på pizzasaus og fyll. Stekes på 250 grader i 7-10 minutter, eller helt til bunnen ser gyllen ut.

Enkel pizzasaus

3-4 tomater
1-2 ss tomatpuré (avhengig av hvor mye du digger tomatsmaken!)
3-4 fedd hvitløk
1 grovhakket løk
1 ts oregano
salt og pepper

Kok tomatene i vann i ett minutt, slik at skinnet kan dras av. Del tomatene i terning og putt terningene i kaserolle sammen med tomatpuré, finhakket hvitløk, finhakket løk og oregani. Kok opp på middels varme, tilsett salt og pepper etter smak. Kokes til ønsket konsistens!

YES, I delivered my thesis and it feels GREAT !!

I can’t say that I was 100 % satisfied with it, but I’ve never been that with anything I’ve written so… Let’s just hope that I will pass, haha! I have to say that I’ve put a lot of work in it though… I guess I’m also a little bit proud… It’s my bachelor thesis, after all! I have to admit that it feels strange to write in my blog… Especially checking Twitter and Facebook without feeling guilty. I still close the windows after a really quick check, because I still think that I should write on my thesis instead of doing these stuff. Now when I’m done with my thesis, I don’t feel I have anything to do online, LOL!! Anyways, I will continue to write about my ~*life*~. The last entry I wrote is already five weeks old…… 

This day I’m gonna write about was a special day for us in CoutureGals; it wasn’t only the obligatory «Year Meeting» (which is the day we discuss and evaluate how things have been and what to do further more) but also a day where we wanted to celebrate CoutureGals’ four years of existence.

Let me start from the beginning…

We woke up early and bought breakfast. Since we knew we were going to get really busy later, we decided to have our meeting while we ate our breakfast. You know how it is… Four chatty girls? It’s better to take the more serious talk when we’re gathered around the table and not when we are around doing our makeup. I usually don’t write so much about what we’re talking about in our internal meetings, they are internal after all. But I guess I can tell you that I’m really proud of every member. We encourage each other to speak our mind and to not be afraid of telling if there is anything that we don’t like. We discussed how we feel things went since last year’s meeting. When thinking back, I’m very happy about last year. We did a lot of stuff together and we got the chance to see each other very often, and one of our open meetings was a huge success. We did a lot of crazy stuff, and everyone did their best to come to the meetings. That’s the funny thing about us four. We usually suck at keeping in touch online, if I wasn’t sure about our friendship I would probably have thought that we didn’t like each other. But with these girls, things are completely different. Internet doesn’t exist for us, it seems. Luckily, every time we see each other it feels like we’ve never been apart.

We also saved a lot money in our account the past year, and we agreed on keeping the monthly fees. We need to be better at paying in time, though. The girls also had their chance to tell me about how they think my work as a leader have been. Surprisingly, I didn’t hear any negative things and they also wanted me as leader for next year too. I was afraid they were thinking that I’ve been too strict or maybe that they were thinking that I’ve been lazy when it comes to the task I have, but apparently that wasn’t anything to be afraid of. I will work even harder and not disappoint my girls, I won’t let them down. We aren’t only a group of ordinary friends, but also a team that works together. In that way, organized interest based meetings aren’t only for the sake of the interests we share, but also for the friendship we have together. I’m extremely lucky. I couldn’t wish for more.

When we finished the breakfast and the talk, we started to do our hair and makeup. We were all thinking that it was a little bit early, but then we always surprise ourselves when it comes to the time we can use on that stuff. We just wanted to be on the safe side!

In case any of you wonder what kind of hairspray that we in CoutureGals use... hahaha, I love how the four of us are faithful users of this hairspray!

This is what we don't want any guys to see... The ingredients that we need to do magic on our face and hair!

I spent a lot of time on my hair… And also a lot of time on Marita’s hair! And like always, when we’re together, I somehow planned the time really wrong which made me have only a few minutes for the makeup! If I don’t remember wrong, I had 15 minutes for it… So I ended up spending a lot of time on my hair and almost no time on my makeup, which rather looked ridiculous! Oh well, the most important part was that I had fun, and I sure did. I won’t complain.

The hair and makeup, lol

The cab was coming any minute, so we waited outside. The funny thing is, that we waited for the cab for 20 minutes. I started to get a little irritated, because on the 20 minutes I could do a much better makeup… And not to think about how much it sucks to stand outside with crazy hairdo when it’s snowing as fuck. Luckily I had fabulous girls around me that kept the bad mood away…

We had booked table on the known fine gourmet restaurant Restaurant Eik Annen Etage. I’ve been in many fancy gourmet restaurants before in my life, but somehow not in any in Oslo! I guess it’s easier to spend money eating out when you’re traveling somewhere… Which is kind of sad, I would love to try out the restaurants in Oslo more… I know there are a lot of local food ingredients I should try.

It was a really nice and relaxing atmosphere there!

We got different breads (not pictured) and three kinds of fresh dips as a little start. They had creme, cheese and olive oil as base. Something for everyone!

On this restaurant, they always have five different dishes on their menu. Their menu changes all the time depending on the season and according to themselves they always use the best ingredient available. You can choose between 3, 4 ot 5 courses – and you are free to pick what you want from their menu. We all ordered three courses. While we’re waiting for the food, let me introduce you CoutureGals once more!

Maria

Marita

Ingvild

Me!

As a appetizer we got a fish (which I sadly can't remember the name of...) prepared in four different ways. I'm not sure which of them I liked the best... It might be the raw one, actually!

First course... Cod from Myre and different fresh salad and groceries.

Main course, deer in red wine sauce and various groceries and parmasan. Not joking, this was one of the best piece of meats I've ever tasted. And the chanterelles... omg. I LOVE mushrooms, and chanterelles are one of my favorites. Combined with all this it tasted even better!

Dessert; white chocolate mousse, lemon foam-thing and blood orange sorbet.

All in all, I can’t believe I haven’t eaten here before. I’ve been travelling around the world since I was a kid and have tasted so much… But somehow I haven’t been here in this restaurant before? I will come back again, no doubt. Great service, delicious food, extremely nice place and very nice prices thinking that this is an gourmet restaurant! I highly recommend this place.

1953 NOK in total... With today's exchange rate it's about 260 EUR/ 335 USD. Not bad for 3 courses for four persons and drinks!

Super important in a long distance relationship!!!!!

Burger from Egon... NOM!

«I miss you so much.
Have a safe flight.

I hope I can see you again soon.»

Haha, it’s extremely weird to write about Christmas now, and I guess you will feel the same about reading this. But hey, it’s a memory I have and I still want to share it! I’m trying to blog in a hurry these days – I need to get rid of about 40 entries asap. Not like I actually have time for my blog days, I’m writing on my thesis and I have a lot of things going on lately. But you know… when you’re supposed to do school related stuff, you always somehow end up doing something completely different? I’m in that situation now! LOL

Bear with me, the next entries won’t have so much texts (I bet most of you don’t care anyways!) – and I will probably have a lot of typos - but I hope you will enjoy the pictures!  I’ve given up on trying to catch up so I can blog in real-time, but three months behind is… really bad. So… expect the next entries to be very… low quality.

My parents drove Marcus and I to Sandefjord, and in Sandefjord we got on the boat. We were on our way to Strømstad with buffet! My parents paid for the buffet as a Christmas present to us 

When the boat started to go, I could notice the super big waves… I don’t like boats at all, no matter what I do I always get sea sick!

Me in the buffet :)

Traditional Norwegian Christmas food... I can't look at this picture, I am looking away as I'm typing now, I want this soo badly right now!!! It almost hurts omgggggggggggg. OMG HELP ME. One of the best things I like to eat ;_;

I don't think Marcus like it as much as I do, though!!! But at least he tried it and I'm happy with that!

My dilemma that day: was really sick of the sea waves but my favorite food was in front of me. I really wanted to throw up, but I really wanted to eat also. It was some kind of a combination between being in heaven and hell at once.

It ended up with eating only half of the plate…

Ingvild came in to my room and we decided to postpone things for a little. Haha, I must say that I usually don’t slack so much, but when I’m with my CG I automatically turn into a lazy sixteen years old girl again. I mean, come on. Sleeping over, sitting on the bed together joking and talking about girly stuff…. The whole night and day. Never get up. :lol: That itself isn’t that bad, right – but when you’re supposed to prepare a lot for a birtday party, slacking until afternoon isn’t exactly very smart.

In the end, when we actually realized how busy we actually were, we quickly got out of the bed. Time to prepare the birthday party!

I helped Ingvild with cooking tempura shrimp and sushi.

A pic of myself making sushi and my hair, almost finished. I was running back and forth the restroom and kitchen.

I really enjoy to cook, and especially if it is for someone! I’m glad I could help Ingvild, it really was a lot of things to do and I hope I saved her some time. There isn’t many people who serve dinner when they invite people over anymore, so it’s important to show appreciation and help those who is. I mean, come on – free food!! It’s super nice of her!

I could feel that I was really stressed when people started to come, though. I wasn’t finished with my hair and makeup yet, an Ingvild hadn’t even started on her hair. And we were far away from finished with the food. Next time I wont slack off in bed this long, for sure.

I don’t think it’s appropriate to write as I was helping with the food, but the food was extremely delicious! But after eating we hurried to do our makeup and hair done so the guests were left alone. LOL!!! HAIR AND MAKEUP IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN FRIENDS!!!! The guests seemed to have fun and didn’t mind.

This day I decided to go crazy with a more hard gyaru style lol. You can see my style for that day on the left; click on image for bigger version! It’s been a while since I’ve dolled myself up like this. I look more like a freakshow, but who cares. It’s fun!

I don’t have any pictures, but I did the top of Ingvilds hair. I really liked it on her! Perfect for special days like this!

Too bad I don' have so many pictures of the birthday girl... These were one of the few ones, and unfortunately we both had one eye with a fake lash that wasn't on the right place. lollll

So, when the time was right we took a cab to the city and went to La Bohem, the same place I was in last time I was in Fredrikstad. This is still the most skanky place I know, hahaha.

Happy birthday to Ingvild! I hope she had a nice birthday celebration!

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Oslo

On this day the weather was really moist and gray, not exactly a nice day. If I hadn’t had any plans, it would probably be one of the days I decide to sleep away.

I took the bus to Oslo. It was weird being back, Oslo is supposed to be where I live, but the last half year I’ve been all other places so it kind of doesn’t feel like home anymore. This time I wasn’t coming back to stay there; I was coming back to meet friends. Around 14.00 I met Jessica and Eivind.

It was extremely nice to see them again, especially them together as a couple. Congratulations! I wish the best for you. I’ve been seeing a lot of new couples recently, and surprisingly enough most of them are long distance relationships. I wonder if it’s because my friends are now all more grown and are more worldly, which leads in being more open about finding a partner that lives on another places?

The first thing we did was to head to the burger chain restaurant Max Burgers. Actually, Maz Burgers is new in Norway – I haven’t been here before. I’ve only been at Max Burger once before, and that was when I met Marcus for the first time… Back then I was too worried about eating nice instead of actually tasting the burger, so I can actually say that I haven’t really tasted Max burger yet. lol

What I ordere! YUMYUM. And like expected, they taste like any other chain restaurant burgers, but the thing about these was the extra amount of salad. LOVE IT!

Alex was on his way, so we decided to go and meet him.

A picture I snapped while we waited for Alex.

After meeting him we decided to have a look around in Oslo City.

And oh, I almost forgot; I got a copy of Jessica’s CD! I’ve been reading her blog since the day I met her for the first time last year, and I’ve been updated about her life trough her LiveJournal since then. If you are curious, you should absolutely check out her official homepage. There you can listen to some samples, she really has a great voice!

IIiiiiii have a signed copy of Scarlet Penta's albuuuum "Specialty"!!!!! Youuuuuu dooooooooooon't!

Since Alex hadn’t eaten yet, we went back to Max Burger. I usually don’t think Oslo gives me any Christmas feeling even though they have decorated, but this time I actually felt something. I guess it might have been it was something about seeing Eivind and Jessica beeing so sweet and so in love with each other 8D

Not a very flattering picture of me........ But the memory was good Eivind, Jessica and me!

Cute people, Erlend and Alex. Erlend was nearby so he joined us!

Since we didn’t really had any other plans than talking, we decided to go home to Eivind’s place. On our way we had a short look in the Christmas market!

Small and cozy market stalls selling various stuff... Perfect for special Christmas presents!

It's easy to forget that you can ice-skating in the heart of Oslo... Really cozy that you can do that, right? I hope I can do that with Marcus next Winter...

At Eivind’s place, Jessica served us her delicious chocolate cake while we watched YouTube videos and talked. In other words, chilled. The thing I like about these people is that I don’t need to be very formal. While it’s natural for me to drink tea, sit nice and talk about the weather and future plans with some of my friends, these friends are the ones I can watch weird and crazy videoes with. I’m grateful for having many different kinds of friend, too bad I don’t see them enough.

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• A Saturday in Oslo

It’s so funny to think that I’m writing about something that happened before the Winter, when Spring is here already. I have to admit that I sometimes has been thinking bout skipping these entries, and just jump to real-time. Writing about things that happened in the beginning of Winter is kind of killing the nice feeling of Spring coming lol. Especially when I know I have a lot of… winter related entries. BAH. Bear with me!

But I know it will be worth to write it all in the end, because I have a lot of memories I want to write down and share…

And well, writing on my thesis is also taking a lot of time, which makes me update very rarely these days… I guess blogging in real-time isn’t something I should dream of? lol

On this day Marcus and I had planned to go to Disney Sea, but we slept the whole day away. We love the snooze function way too much! Since it was late on the already, we decided to not go. Even though Disney Sea was one of the things I’ve always wanted to go to in Japan, I wasn’t really sad about it.

We woke up and went to the post office to ship stuff to our friends and family – I had postponed that for a very long time. There was no chance I could bring back home all the stuff in my suitcase, thinking about the weight. Paying for the shipping is cheaper than paying for luggage overweight!

The lunch I bought! Fried chicken and rice.

I can’t believe we didn’t do this more often, thinking about how good and cheap it is and how much time we save… I can’t remember what it was, all I can remember is that it was DELICIOUS! And that strawberry drink had some kind of jelly in it!

We also went in to a pet store, because I hadn’t really bought so many presents to my little girl. I bought a lot of treats, it’s much more cheaper in Japan – and she looooves new stuff so why not. I bought about 10 bags of different snacks. Thinking that she is only a 2 kg big dog, over 2 kg of snacks is a lot!

When we were back home, I started to pack my suitcase. I was feeling  really weird. I knew that I was gonna be on the airport at the same time the day after, but somehow it didn’t feel real at all. It felt like Marcus and I were going somewhere together. We’re not supposed to be away from each other, it just… can’t happend. It’s kind of hard to explain, I’m guessing my subconscious was denying the painful truth.

Right after buying a lot of snacks and food in a convenient store, we decided to take a cab to Shibuya. It was it was 22.00 already and using time walking around with super heavy suitcases this late wasn’t exactly tempting.

We booked in a hotel and relaxed with bubble bath and a the food we had bought earlier.

Two really bad pictures of the hotel room… It was really nice there, though!

The food we ate! Hahaha, no wonder I never loose weight :’D I loooove potato chips (I’m actually having a very abnormal love for it…), and nori potato chips are seriously one of the best things about Japan in my opinion hahaha.

 We talked trough the whole night, both happy and sad stuff. We first decided to not sleep, but then we started to feel a little bit tired so we ended up sleeping one hour anyways.

We left the hotel 7.00 in the morning.

..........me. In front of the hotel's entrance. Ladies and gentlemen, since that day I promised myself to NEVER use any other shampoo than my regular one!

We took the train to Narita airport, and I have to admit that I was really tired, so sleeping only 1 hour was maybe not that smart at all! But thinking about the long flight I was going to take, I guess it would make it easier to sleep away those hours!

After dropping my luggage (which was, way too much over the limit – but I’m too lazy to write down the whole story. In the end I had to leave some stuff) we headed to Starbucks to buy something to drink and eat.  It was about then I realized that I was gonna be alone. Again.

Chicken wraps, sandwiches and frappuchinos!

I could’t eat anything at all, I started to panic. I’m not sure why it happened, it has nothing to do about me being afraid of anything… It’s more like that I don’t like the fact that I’m not controlling anything about this at all. I’m a kind of a person that likes to make plans, likes to know about the future, how things will be… It’s very me to have plans for the next half year ready, yes, I know for some people it might sound extreme. With Marcus, everything is so… unclear. We don’t know when we gonna see each other again. It might be in a few months, it might be next summer. It might be the last time we see each other. Not knowing anything is literally killing me.

I think this is the worst part about being in a long distance relationship, for me. Nothing is certain. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not saying that things would have been more certain if there wasn’t any distance, I know that really well. But the distance does make me feel insecure. Not insecure about the relationship, but actually insecure about myself. It’s not that horrible to sleep alone, I’m kind of used to it now. It’s OK that I don’t see him everyday.

I’m not sure how to describe it, but I’m a kind of a person that easily think I’m worthless if I can’t achieve something. I have this strong feeling about wanting to do something, be someone important for someone, make a change, just something. It doesn’t have to be anything big, but just having a plan about something is enough to keep me feeling OK. And to achieve something, it’s natural to have a plan about how to achieve it. If I fail in following my own plan, I feel completely worthless.

So, it’s not that hard to guess that one of my goals is to make this relationship work.

I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned in this blog before, but even though a lot of people tell me they admire me for being so confident, independent, strong and hard working – that I’m a true fighter – I’ve never felt that about myself. In my mind, everything could have been better, nothing about me is good enough. This way of thinking could have been good motivation for certain things, but when thinking this about everything about myself is rather a dangerous way to think.

Being alone in the beginning of this relationship was really hard, because I was prepared for the worst most of the time. But Marcus was very patient and was by my side no matter what. I actually think I was in need for some time for myself. I’ve actually never been alone before I met Marcus, so I’ve never had the chance to know that side of myself. Being alone made me realize a lot of things about myself that I hadn’t been able to see before;

I have lower self confidence than I thought, and I’m probably still hurt. For those who have been following my blog for over two years, you probably know what. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about – let’s just say that I’ve experienced something that completely changed my reality bubble and left me feel more lonely than ever. I’ve always known that I’m afraid of being alone, but I didn’t know that I’m pushing myself away from people as a result of that. I’m pushing people away so they won’t get close to me, so I won’t too get hurt in case I lose them.

I realized that I’m very afraid of losing Marcus. I sometimes imagine the worst scenarios. As a result of my fear, I push him away when I feel we get really close and the relationship is «too good».

When I realized what my problem was I could finally start working on it. And for the first time in my life I actually have time alone for myself so I can start feeling and to reflect instead of doing everything I could do to avoid feeling anything at all. It is OK to miss someone. It is OK to feel weak and afraid – but how am I supposed to get rid of this bad self defense mechanism? The start would be to get better self confidence. And after that hopefully I will stop pushing people away, because – well, if I can make myself to like me, maybe I can believe that other people can like me too? And after that again, I will dare to dream about making plans for the future so I can feel safe in a relationship again.

I guess this was really messy and hard to read, but in the end I’m writing for myself so it’s OK if no one understand what I mean. It feels good write it down, and feels even better to admit it so it isn’t a secret any longer. Anyways, back to that day in the airport.

I was panicking, but Marcus is a smart guy so he remained calm while I was acting like a big and confused oversized baby. I was crying, but Marcus did his best to cheer me up.

When we said goodbye right before me going in to the security check, I did my best to hold back tears. I wanted it to be a good memory, a «see you again soon» instead of a sad «goodbye». We kissed, smiled and said goodbye. We waved to each other until we couldn’t see each other anymore. I was feeling really weird for not crying since it was exactly what I wanted to do, but I was happy I was able to hold back because I know Marcus don’t want to see me crying. When headed to my gate, I saw Marcus. I don’t know what I was thinking, but I walked towards him. There he was, right in front of me. Behind the glass wall, a few centimeters away from me.

This time the reality really hit me. I could see Marcus, but I couldn’t hear or touch him. It was only a wall of glass keeping us apart. I started to cry, and I remember I was at one point thinking that I wanted to stay and not go home at all. I could see Marcus was feeling helpless, and I tried to hold back the tears. I could see trough the wall that he was saying something, but I didn’t know what. I knew I had to hurry because my flight was going really soon and I had to find my gate so I put on a fake smile and waved goodbye. My plan to leave with a happy face really failed…

Marcus is really amazing, isn't he? Long time ago I told him that my favorite flower is sunflower (ahaha, super practical right? NOT!), and I guess he remembered that and bought me a flower that looks like a sunflower! Cute!!!

Not only that, but he had also two donuts/cakes/whatever it is called with him. But since I’m very strict about not eating sweet stuff before a meal (that’s a huge no-no for me!), we decided to eat them later.

We were both hungry and it was dinner time, so we went inside Tokyu Department Store to look and found a traditional Japanese restaurant; Udon no Shikoku. It seemed interesting so we decided to go in!

The place had an cozy and relaxing atmosphere. Not exactly what I would expect in a building right next to the extremely crowded and busy Shibuya station!

Their menu was colorful and had nice pictures!

Me :)

Marcus! I didn't take any picture of the restaurant, but in the background in this picture you can see a little of it~

Even though I had been in Japan for almost a month, I still wasn’t used to people that believed that I understood Japanese. The waitress was talking to me when Marcus was the one who ordered our food, something I think is kind of weird. It might have something to do about me nodding when people are talking to me – it’s something I do unconsciously.

Anyways, the food was served quickly and it looked really good!

The main dish; Nabe Yaki Udon, some kind of a udon hot-pot. You can see a big tempura shrimp and a lot of different fresh groceries. This dish also had a egg and two different kinds of mushrooms.

The mushrooms tasted sooooo good. I’m weak for mushrooms! I would probably like the tempura shrimp better if it wasn’t soaked. I love tempura shrimp – but not when it’s soaked!!! It feels weird and doesn’t taste as good as it could, but that’s just my personal opinion. The soaked tempura shrimp was the only thing about this dish that I didn’t like… It was really tasty!

The side dishes, different parts of pork grilled in different ways (if I remember right) on spears and rice + tsukemono (Japanese pickles).

The round things on the spears are eggs (not sure what kind of, maybe some of my readers know?) and tomato. I’m so happy we ordered those spears – it was so tasty! The meat was juicy, crispy and sweet at the same time. I guess the sweetness is from either honey or sugar – not sure – but it was like a caramel coat!

Later we went to ice cream store Baskin-Robbins. We don’t have them in Norway (like with a lot of other things that other countries have…), and of course I had to go there!

In front of Baskin-Robbins! And what am I holding?

I was holding this cute little thing on the right! Marcus had the panda I had the traumatized rabbit! It was hard to eat it, they were soooo cute and I kinda wanted to save them ;_; LOL

Cute ice creams, right? And those who have been reading my blog for a while knows that I loooove ice cream, so cute things combined with ice cream is sieghosrgirshguerhegpsådrgurgdrig. I don’t think it’s possible for any ice cream to taste bad, so I won’t write about how good this was lol.

We went to a game center to look and wasted a lot of money in a claw game machine thing. LOL!!! We didn’t win anything this time!!

LLAMA PLUSHIE ;______; I want a small one on my phone ;______;

And of course when we’re in a game center there are always purikura booths nearby. Here are some of the mandatory purikura pictures:

 

 I really like them! Click on image for lager.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand, like the other day, we didn’t want to go home – so we sang karaoke!

Aaaand, of course we didn't forget the donuts Marcus had bought earlier! They're from Krispy Kreme! They were so good, I am glad we don't have Krispy Kreme in Norway because that would be dangerous for me! 8D

Karaoke was the perfect way to end this day… We sang karaoke until the last train was going.

My day couldn’t be any better.