Halloween

Well, Norwegians don't appear to celebrate Halloween, but we did get our first snowfall on that day.

We left Norway for the US on the 4th of November - arriving in LA and to our hotel just in time to watch the returns from the presidential election. Very exciting. Althoughit was all I could do to stay up until 9 pm LA time - I kept dozing dring Obama's acceptance speech.

We then began what was the most hectic and stressful traveling. We arrived in LA for a meeting that did not happen. So we went to San Francisco to visit for a couple of days with David's family. We then had to go back to LA to take our scheduled flights - I was off to Austin to attend a casting class with Linda Ethier. David went on to Tallahassee for a few days, traveling to Philadelphia to give a talk and then returning to Tallahassee. I returned to Tallahassee and then a less than a week later we loaded up our van and drove to Durham, North Carolina where we were to stay for a month (mini sabbatical research position.
We then drove to NY for Thanksgiving. Back to Tallahassee around the 20th of December and then off to California again to visit. Then it was back to NY for me and North Carolina for David. Then we met in NY to take a flight back to Oslo in early January. We were tired and tired of lugging around allour luggage - but happy to have seen as many friends and family as we had.
This is the clay model for a cast piece I made in my class. Unfortunately, the finished piece is in Tallahassee and I didn't get a chance to take a picture of it before I left.












This is Linda Ethier, our instructor. It was a great class - very intense.