Sunday morning some of us went down to the Oslo Opera House, is it ever beautiful. We decided to come back at night time for the free open air concert. Once it was time to leave for the concert, it rained and everyone was tired. Fortunately we decided to go anyways!

The Norwegians are well equipped fora rained-out classical concert and a surprisingly big group of people braved the rain. Just before the start of the concert, there was an announcement in Norwegian, the audience got up, and we thought that the performance was cancelled. Quite the opposite was true. They arranged for us to see the concert inside the opera house. Since there were too many people to fit in the opera, they also arranged to have two shows that night. We were in the second group, were greeted with a glass of white wine to apologize for the wait, and got to watch a ballet performance, a pas de deux (a duet in which ballet dancers perform the dance together) from both the nutcracker and swan lake.

The concert started shortly after and we got carried away in the world of classical music. There was an amazing orchestra, a choir, and of course a few Opera singers. One women had everyone’s attention, maybe because of her voice, but mainly because of her dress that didn’t quite contain her boobs.

I was close to tears all evening. I was sitting in the Oslo Opera House with my new friends, my heart warmed by music and a glass of wine. It was so lovely and I missed all of you tremendously.