Best Friends Internship

A few weeks ago I found out that I received a spot in the internship program at Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab, Utah.



The internship is six weeks long. I will be taking part in the October/November session. So I will be flying into Vegas a few days early before heading to Kanab, which is about four hours outside of Vegas. The internship is defined as animal care. Pretty much the interns work with the different animals that they have there (dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, birds, farm) than they choose an area to focus on. While I am there I will also be able to attend a workshop that is taking place at the same time as my internship. It is about starting nonprofits, fundraising and a little more of the political aspects of animal work. Should be fun, I can't wait.

Blake and Katie will be here Thursday so I should have pictures from our trips up once we have gone. Munich, Bavaria and Switzerland.

Norway Social

Here are a few pictures from the social that we went to. We went to the troll park which is a big deal around here. The largest troll in the world is here, it is 14km high. There is also the fairytale castle which tells of the Norwegian fairy tales and also we toured the ice hotel and had a drink at the ice bar. The glass that they served the drinks in were ice! You had to drink it fast or else the ice melted. Even more fun the drinking it was smashing the glasses on the ground when you were done. We had a three course dinner at a restaurant called TrollKavern. The whole place had trolls all around. The food was pretty good, we had smoked salmon with lemon and lime it was good lots of flavor, then we had reindeer (yes I ate rudolph :-P) it wasn't too bad, a different taste but not bad. Then we had cloudberries and ice cream. Cloudberries are rare and found more often in Northern countries, they are yellow and bitter. I guess they make good alcohol too but we didn't try any. It was interesting, it was a good thing we had Rune there to explain all the Norwegian stuff, like cloudberries!

Here are a few pictures of the fairytale castle.






Here are a few pictures of the trolls. The first one is of the huge 14km troll. I wish we could have gotten better pictures but it was snowing and we were being rounded up for dinner while we were trying to get pictures. The last two are from the restaurant where we had dinner.





The first picture is from this igloo that had a chess set in it. We were bored waiting for people get done with the fairytale castle tour so I was going to put Luke out of his misery with a giant chess pon :-P The second photo is of Hafjell Ski Resort, the 1994 winter Olympics were here in Lillehammer and this hill was were they did some events. We also saw the Viking Ship, which is were they had the Olympic speedskating event but I wasn't quick enough to snap a pic. The third one is the largest lake in Norway i just took the picture while we were stopped on the train heading back to Oslo. I thought that it was pretty.





Here are some pictures from the ice hotel. The first one is of the ice bar. I couldn't get a really good picture because it was so crowded. It was neat though the whole bar was made of ice and they had a huge bottle of liquor in an ice bottle sitting on the bar. The second picture is of wedding clothes that were in the ice chapel. The third and fourth pictures are of the chapel in the ice hotel. The last is a picture of Luke and Rune with their drinks...notice that the cups are ice. It was a good thing that they brought gloves.







More ice hotel pictures. The first is of Luke in what I call the man room. It had all sorts of power tools drilled into the wall, definitely geared more towards the male demographic. The second picture is the entrance to the ice hotel. The third picture is me at the ice hotel. It wasn't as cold as I though it would be, even sitting on the bed wasn't too bad.





The last picture is of the reindeer meat. I felt so bad eating rudolph! It was just weird to think of eating reindeer since it is so uncommon, but in Norway it is just as normal as eating beef or chicken. Everyone was making fun of me at our table because I was so apprehensive about eating reindeer, eventually we just decided that we weren't eating reindeer at all it was really elk :-P That was until Rune made the comment, " Yumm, Rudolph tastes fantastic!" It was a fun evening.

What Disney Princess Are You?

You Are Pocahantas!

Free-spirited and wise. You have a strong passionate spirit that touches and changes all who know you. The wisdom and common sense that you have is really what guides you through life. Even so, you also have a very playful side that loves adventure and excitement.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

Norway Day 1

I got around to doing some exploring this afternoon. I got up early and went down to breakfast with Luke before he left for his meetings. Did some homework down in the lobby, they have really comfortable chairs and sofas everywhere which is nice. The hotel lobby has a very homey feel. It was snowing this morning so I was worried that I wouldn't be able to go out to far and get pictures. But by noon the snow had stopped so I wandered down into town, which was quite far. Our hotel is on this huge hill that goes straight down. Now going down wasn't bad at all but going back up was horrible! The town is nice, there is one main street it kind of reminds me of Heinsberg. I stopped in a 7-11 because I thought bottled water would be cheaper there than at the hotel because it is 7-11! No I paid 57NOK which is one more than I would have paid had I got it here and it still was like $8 for two bottles of water!!
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Just a few of the cute houses that I saw walking into town. I love the wood and multicolors I think that it is just too cute.




A couple more cool buildings that I saw I think the second one is some type of school but I am not sure. I just thought that they looked neat.






Some pictures of the snow and of a church that I came across. I have a few more but I have yet to figure out how to turn them the right way.

Tomorrow is the social so we are supposed to be heading to the ice hotel, should be fun.

Norway

Well we are here in Lillehammer! Our flights were good, we had a layover in Copenhagen, which is a really nice airport! Just got in to Lillehammer, lots of snow and cold! It is pretty here though, but our hotel is up on this huge hill so hopefully I will be able to make it into to town without falling on my face too many times. Hotel is alright, we don't have internet in our room which sucks. So I am sitting in the lobby and will probably be spending a lot of time here since i need to do schoolwork and use the internet! I will try to upload some pictures tonight or tomorrow.