…had a couple of excellent posts today: Some Thoughts on Faith and I’m Paying Money for This Shit?

I’ve just signed up for my yoga school’s yogaferie, or yoga vacation. It’s this summer from June 25th ’til July 2nd in a place in Telemark called “Nisedal”, which translates to “gnome valley” or something similar. (Here is a picture of a nisse, more or less.) I’m very excited about this trip, as it’ll be something totally new and different for me. Spending a week with a bunch of Norwegians I don’t know, doing exercise! It’s the kind of thing where you get up early, do yoga before breakfast, eat only vegetarian, make all the meals together, etc. I’ll bet my Norwegian will be plenty fluent after that trip. Here are some more photos from previous yoga vacations. I’m very excited about this!

We may also take Hurtigruten up the Norwegian coast this summer to go visit Kristoffer. Won’t be cheap–it will be a nine-day cruise, after all!–but it’s supposed to be just a gorgeous trip. It’ll probably cost the same as our whirlwind roadtrip through the middle of the US last summer, and I owe it to myself and Johannes to get to see what’s so beautiful about this country. It should be a very nice summer.