October 7, 2010 This morning we got up at around 8am planning to be out by 10, which was check-out time. We hadn’t prepared anything in the evening and quickly found out we had been a bit optimistic on the timing. It was difficult to get everyone into gear read more…

October 6, 2010 During dinner yesterday we asked the kids what they wanted to do tomorrow (today). We gave them the choice of staying at the house and playing in the swimming pool or go up to San Francsico and visit the Exploratorium. The vote was split and Viktor was read more…

Octobre 5, 2010 On a commencé la journée doucement avec un peu de travail scolaire pour Iseline et une séance de saxophone pour Viktor. Ensuite on a achevé notre pélerinage informatique en passant par le siège de Facebook. Cette fois on s’est fait gentiment chasser par un garde parce qu’on read more…

October 4, 2010 At breakfast Iseline insisted on sitting on a very tall chair without a back rest. At first we did the standard cultural norming reaction of “YOU CANNOT DO THAT!” However it struck me that we had no good reasons for forbidding it, except that it was unusual. read more…

October 3, 2010 We started the day with some school work for the kids. They logged in to the Norwegian online school and all 3 worked hard. And then straight out to a well deserved session in the pool. I spent the better part of the day catching up on read more…

October 2, 2010 Westward going jet lag is a blessing when you want to get up early in the morning. New day, new possibilities! We had spoken about taking the train (Caltrain) to go up to San Francisco because we wanted to avoid rush hour, which can be very bad read more…

October 1, 2010 The kids started wriggling at around 4 am but didn’t get out of bed until 6:30. Iseline was very hungry and had breakfast with the leftovers from yesterday’s dinner at 6:30 and then joined our common breakfast at 08:30. Impressive. We started having a closer look at our home read more…

September 30, 2010 After a good nights sleep (some slept more than others) we had breakfast at the Novotel at Heathrow just before they closed the buffet at 10am local, 11am Oslo time. The kids slept from 1 am until 9:15am UK time. We had managed to adjust half the read more…

September 29, 2010 So, we finally managed to get ready and not annoy the taxi driver too much by only being 5 minutes late. After 5 minutes in the taxi Hélène reminds me that I had forgotten to bring all the stuff I had wanted to take over to my read more…

September 29, 2010 That title sounds like a country song. Oh well, here I am, sitting on the floor in darkness only lit up by the glow of the screen. I’m in a small bathroom in a hotel. Let’s backtrack before I explain why I am here. As Hélène wrote read more…