The Hellands in Baku and back to Norway again.....

onsdag 24. juni 2009

Tårer og tårer, vi er på vei hjemover....

......med ett lite stopp i Vienna på vei hjemover. Reiser fra Baku natt til lørdag og blir i Vienna til tirsdag kveld. Også lander vi i Stavanger tirsdag kveld kl. 21:35 med flyet fra København.

Det blir vedmodig å flytte, men allikvel har vi jo fått utrettet utrolig mye i perioden vi har bodd i utlandet. Vi håper sjansen byr seg igjen en annen gang!

Mor er mest fornøyd for hun har scrappet ajour alle familiebilder t.om. 2008 + alle feriebilder t.o.m 2009. har lest 4're bøker, derav en engelsk på over 400 sider! wow :-) trent masse, fått vært mye med Lisa, fulgt opp barna bra på skolen, blitt flinkere i språk, rammet inn bilder som har vært planlagt leeenge..., brodert navneskilt til Lisa slik de andre har, kontroll på oppskrift-boka etc. etc. :-)

Idag pushet min nabo meg rundt nabolaget. 5 km. jogging i nesten 30 grader va jammen meg varmt. Jeg var helt slips da jeg kom til mål etter 34 minutter. (ja jeg vet jeg springer sent, men jeg måtte faktisk gå fort 10 % av tiden) Det var helt uutholdelig i varmen! :-(

Så nå er det slutt på hushjelp og egen privatsjåfør. Off, dette kommer til å bli hardt! :-) Nå er det hjem til maling, tapesering og fiksing av hus! :-) Ja, ja, bra skal det ihvertfall bli, om det aldri koster så mye! :-)

Så..... snakkes plutselig! og nå håper jeg på finvær når vi kommer hjem til Norge. Jeg bare makter ikke øs pøs regn hele tiden! Tror jeg kommer til å bli deprimert da! :-) Goe sommar te adle! :-)

søndag 21. juni 2009

Uke 25 - Leaving Party for us in Grand Park!

Karen, Kelly and Ruth organized the best party ever for us yesterday! :-) Amazing! and they manage to organize more than 19 families ++ to come and have a party for us in our compound. The theme was "Hawaii Hulahu" so everyone looked very exotic, especially Johnny, we really liked his outfit! :-) Thanks Johnny for putting so much efford in the costume, you looked absolutly great! :-)

There was homemade hamburgers and sausages with salads, coleslaw and a lot more. There were alot of muffins and berries. Really really tasteful! :-) And of course as much juice, mojito, coctails, beer and wine as you wanted to drink!

Can it be better? And for me it was too emotional, I cried and cried and it was impossible to keep the eyes dried when everyone wanted to say farewell and say so many nice words. I'm sorry for that! This is unfortuately heritable, poor Anna! :-)

As present we got a great scrapbook with pictures of many families and regards from many of our friends. We also got a big bucket full of Azerbaijan memories such as tea, wine, beer, hookah (sicha/vannpipe), carpet and many other nice things. And a glass with truffles! Jummy, we need to make something good with that! :-) Thank you very much to everyone! :-) We really really appreciated it.

Hope everyone enjoyed the party as much as we did. The limbo-dancing was a great success, and the pinjata as well. A bit anoying that Svein was better than me in limbo-lancing, even I have a Yoga body, according to Denise Austin! :-) hihi

Thanks again to everyone that have made our stay here in Baku so special. We will miss you all, hope to see you again sometime! LOL - "The Hellands" xxxx

Last playgroup for the "Butterflies" :-(

This week we had our last playgroup in our house. We decided to have lunch aswell, and everyone contributed with some food. We had a fun day! We will really miss these Thursdays when we move home to Norway again.

onsdag 17. juni 2009

Camping was better than expected actually...... :-)

Det ska ikkje stå på naturen! :-)

More camping pictures! :-)

Svein Terje is so proud of his new kamera you can't imagine! So he is stopping the car all the time to take some more pictures. Can be a bit irritating for all our friends that have to wait, but luckily they are quite adicted themselves! :-)