Sunday

Today we leave for California . I have been joking, “Home is not where your heart is, but where your stuff is. I am sad to leave but happy to be going back. It has been quite a trip.

We got ready and packed everything. Soon Anette and Rune arrived and we left a little after 9:00 a.m. The airport was fairly empty. We checked in our luggage and waited. Arne and Mari came to the airport to see us off. I again had a Skillingsbolle and after waiting for about an hour we said goodbyes. Anne Marit cried, Anette cried and I cried.

They have accepted me for who I am, as I am and that overwhelms me.

After we left, we went and got our tax back from all the purchases we had been making. We met Kjetil’s friend and classmate Inger from Rapid City . We met her before on the plane the day we arrived and she was supposed to leave the day we left.

We boarded our plane and were on our way home. The trip was uneventful except that I thought that they singled us out for security checks. Perhaps we fit a special profile. We were not complaining though. All in a Day’s work.

We landed in San Jose 9:25 p.m. and Kjetil’s friend Jan Goodman picked us up and we picked up our car from outside his house and drove home and reached home around 11:30.

Anette and Rune at the airport.

Anne Marit and Arne.

Kjetil and Kjell

Mari

At the airport.

The food!!!