Diaz Family Jul and NYE with friends
This year, the Diaz's changed up Christmas and spent it together in Norway! The first activity planned was a nice Christmas dinner at a restaurant called Bryggeloftet that is known for traditional Norwegian Christmas food. We had the table for three hours, and we enjoyed the time to the fullest: rakfisk and mussels for appetizers, ribbe (pork belly) and pinnekjøtt (salted and dried lamb ribs that are later cooked), halibut (for Carolyn), and aquahvit to wash it all down. Very good dinner and super filling! Norwegian Christmas food at Bryggeloftet in Bergen ROMJUL: December 23-27 I borrowed a cabin through work near a town called Geilo (roughly half way between Bergen and Oslo) for a few days so that we could be guaranteed a white Christmas. We took the train about three hours east of Bergen with Pancho, my skis and luggage full of food, beer and wine to last the four of us for 4 days. We were welcomed with plenty of snow and a bit of wind, but tha...