Norway winter trip part 1

We took a family holiday and flew to Norway for a week. We left Friday morning and got to Asker about 1pm on March 4th. Our first stop was the barnehage that R & T went to, and they were excited to see us all. There was plenty of snow still on the ground, though the day was clear and gorgeous.
It happened to be Carnival day, so everyone was dressed in costumes. Rhiannon was shy for about 5 minutes, then she was straight back into playing with her old friends. Although she didn't seem to remember any Norwegian to speak, I think she mostly understood what people were saying. Tryfan took a lot longer to come unglued from my leg, but he was soon playing happily too.
At 5pm we left barnehage and went to stay with our former neighbor and good friend Monica and her family. Kristoffer was really happy to see both Tryfan and Rhiannon, and we had a wonderful couple of days staying with them (Fri and Sat nights).
On Saturday morning we visited our friends Emily and Phil, who have a new baby called William! Rhiannon was especially thrilled to meet him, and she got to feed him some milk and hold him a little bit. It was so wonderful to see them again.
After doing a bit of shopping at Holmen, we called in with our old neighbors from our first residence, Beate and Ole and their youngest daughter Yasmin. It was wonderful to see them and the three kids played on the floor while us adults chatted in a civilised and very enjoyable way.
Next stop on Saturday afternoon was to Sofia's house to see her new baby brother Storm and spend an hour or so chatting with their parents, Linda and Paer. Paer made delicious popcorn soup and we all had some. Rhiannon and Sofia were so happy to see each other and even though they didn't speak much, they played and laughed the whole time.
Rhiannon got to hold baby Storm all by herself and she was so thrilled about it.
On Saturday night we had a neighborhood get together at Bentley's foster family's house. There were 5 families there (including us) and it was so wonderful to visit with everyone at once. Here we are walking over from Kristoffer's house.
Monica brought over some long balloons and a book on how to make animal shapes, swords, and hats from them. So it was quite chaotic for some time as kids were running wild with their balloon swords.
On Sunday morning, we visited with R & T's former best buds Sofie and Johanne and their parents. The kids played in their backyard snow playground while us adults sat on reindeer skin covered sofas carved into the snow, drank coffee and ate pancake-type things.
By 1pm on Sunday afternoon, we were a bit exhausted from all of the intense visiting! Perfect time to jump into the car and drive for 3+ hours into the mountains to have Part 2 of our Norwegian holiday....