Winding down

I suddenly have cabin fever. Or I'm lonely.  Or I'm anxious about next steps. Or I'm feeling like time's awastin' because I only have 10 days left and I have done nothing.  Well that's not true, and I'm all about the slow travel concept, but there is SO MUCH I could have done that I did not.  Like, sledding at Lillehammer.  Visiting the museum and ship in Gjovik.  More trips to Oslo.  Trips to various parks (even though the roads are closed until the snow goes away, you can still see some views.) Practising the loaner violin after the concert was over. More trips to ancestral homes.  Of course, I'm coming back next year for my 60th birthday, and Mom wants to come for her 90th (wow!), so I can fit in some of that.  And truly, the snow has been record breaking this year, so much of the touring around was not really practicable.  Stavkirke were closed, roads were closed.

On the plus side I have:
1. Played a concert with Gjoviksymfoni
2. Visited Oslo twice.  Frogner Park, Kon-tiki and Fram Museums, National Gallery, Opera House (for a walk on the roof and a truly wonderful chamber music concert.)
3. Taken an overnight trip with Phyllis past Jotunheimen and several Stavkirke to Laerdal at the foot of Sognefjord.
4. Visited Lillehammer's pedestrian shopping area
5. Snow shoed on the lake 3 times, walked around the lake, walked in the area.
6. Spent several hours in Gjovik, shopping, eating a lovely meal, walking around
7. Spent Easter in Hedalen, attending service at the Stavkirk and going with the local retired librarian (contact through my genealogist cousins) to the Klemmetsrud farm. We had a nice afternoon at her home.
8. Finished writing the kids' book.  Started on the haiku book.
9. Read many books, knitted, meditated, blogged.
10.  Ruined my most recent sweater.

11. Stayed within my budget.

Not much for 90 days, but enough I guess.