LATEST NEWS
2011

	June 2011	Morten has already left to return to Norway, but we are still seeing different sights here in Florida. This time to a wildlife sanctuary. It is something like a zoo, but the care of the animals and grounds are so much better and more personalized than any zoo. The animals are still kept in cages, but not the same way as in a zoo, and the cleanliness is noted right away because you don't have the overwhelming smells that you experience when you go into the typical zoo. We were also very luck in that there had been a recent birth of a tiger, and we were allowed the opportunity to actually play with it as it was not caged. Dad even fed it from a bottle of milk, and Mom & Anuska had it crawling all over them. We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did... (SlideShow)
	March 2011	Morten came to visit us again early in 2011, and this time we all [ Mom (Kari), Anuska, Morten & Dad(Ray) ] went on a cruise around the Bahamas for 5 days. We visited in order:.... Nassau, Half Moon Cay (an island owned by Carnival Cruise lines), and lastly Grand Turk island. The weather was beautiful for the entire trip, and everyone had a great time. For your enjoyment, I have made up a separate slide show for each day of the cruise, and a map of the overall cruise to start things off. Revisit every place we did and enjoy the sights! (Map) (SlideShow Day 1) (SlideShow Day 2) (SlideShow Day 3) (SlideShow Day 4) (SlideShow Day 5)
	November.2010	During November and Morten's first trip, we also made a 2 day trip down to Key West Florida. The trip was very long, but picturesque and well worth the time and effort. While there, besides enjoying the beautiful vistas, we also sampled some fantastic foods, and visited some very nice tourist attractions. Among them was the Hemingway house where the famous author Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote for over 10 years. The grounds of his estate are beautiful, and also home to the descendents of his cats. There are now over 60 different 6-toed cats living there and there is a quaint cat cementery where all of his cats who died are buried. Each cat has a unique name, usuaally the same as some famous actor, actress, singer or just a famous movie character. We also visited the Key West butterfly sanctuary which houses over 60 different butterfly species from around the world in a climate controlled glass sanctuary, and over 20 exotic birds. You can roam around the sanctuary while butterflies flutter all around you. It is said that it is good luck if one actually lands on you, and that happened twice to Dad while we were there! Because this trip had so much to see including the southernmost point in the continental USA, and so many pictures, we have broken the trip up into 3 separate slide shows. Click on each of the thumbnail pics below to revisit Key West as we saw it. We hope you enjoy the shows (Main Trip pictures) (Hemingway's House) (Butterfly Sanctuary)
	November.2010	This is another trip we took during Morten's first visit in 2010. This was to the Lion Country Safari. After going through some very impressive gates and walls, we were able to drive among all of the wild life they have there. The only thing separating us from most of the animals was our car windows! The lions however were kept in a fenced in area because of some incident in the past when some dumb tourist stopped and opened his window near the lions and almost got mauled! We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did... (SlideShow)
	November 2010 (continued)	Here are 2 more slide shows from Morten's first visit and our trip to Orlando. These 2 cover a day in Disney's Animal Kingdom, and also a day at Seaworld. We haven't finished making the comments for the Seaworld trip, but at least you can enjoy the pictures. (SlideShow) (SlideShow)
	November 2010	Well, we have finally finished another very long slideshow. This covers part of Morten's first visit to Florida when we all went to Orlando, Florida to see Disney World. The slideshow has over 300 pictures, but I have made it possible to view it in 2 parts. I hope you enjoy the show.... (SlideShow_PART 1) (SlideShow_PART 2)
	10 Dec 2010	Congratulations to ANUSKA Graduate F.A.U. - SUMMA CUM LAUDE After years of hard work both here in Florida and prior work in New York, Anuska finally graduated Summa Cum Laude majoring in Chemistry. Well Done ! (SlideShow) Other links to see... Graduation Ceremony Movie Graduation Card
	August.2010	Mom's daughter Gry and her husband Zed came to visit us all the way from Melbourne, Australia and stayed with us for about 10 days. They arrived the same day the movers were moving our furniture in, and the repair men were fixing the ceiling in our kitchen, so they stayed the first night in a hotel in Miami. We picked them up the next day and for 10 days enjoyed their company and had fun together at the beach, visiting the everglades, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami. Check out the pictures in the slideshow below... (SlideShow)
	August.2010	We bought a house with a tremendous backyard in July, and moved in on the 5th of August. Mom, Dad, Pat and Anuska had already done a lot of painting, tileing and cleaning before we moved in, and then we had a leak in the ceiling of the kitchen when the movers were delivering our furniture from the old house. It turned out to be part of the air-conditioning system in the attic. A few months later we had a similar problem in the ceiling of mom and dad's bedroom. So throughout this past year and a half we have had a complete new air-conditioning system installed, new windows and sliding doors to the back porch, the electrical panels and breakers replaced, and numerous other little and big mods to the house and garden areas. Mom, Patty and Anuska have planted all sorts of beautiful flowers in both the front and rear lawn areas, and Dad has been busy planting all sorts of trees (fruit and palms) in the front and back. Here are some pics of the house as it is today... Good work to all who contributed! (SlideShow)
	17.07.2011	Well, here it is half way through 2011 and we haven't written anything since January of last year!!! Shame on us, but it's not that we haven't had any news to speak about, but we have all been very very busy, with little or no time to update this web page. WE ARE SORRY ! We will do our best to bring you all up-to-date on the most important things which have happened in the past year and a half, though they may not be in the correct chronological order. your co-editors... Chanty, Bordeaux, Tio, and Roman.