Escape from boredom

All the three of us went out walking today, or to be all correct, Anders did not walk, we carried him in the baby backpack. Plenty to see today, at first I advised a guy who was stuck with his car so the traffic jam (two cars were waiting) broke up. Then we found a pile of snow that wasn’t just snow, but in fact a car. In fact, plenty of those today. When almost back home I saw this old man standing there trying to remove all the snow on and around his car. It turned out that he was just about to turn 90 (!!!) in a few days. That, and the fact that he had to use a wheel walker made me decide to help him out. Luckily he was not going to drive the car, he just wanted to remove the snow and just start it up. A man at his age driving around on these conditions would have been crazy!

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A collage of my neighbours houses taken yesterday evening during the snow blizzard. Ok, maybe not a snow blizzard, but Oslo Airport Gardermoen was closed, the traffic was a mess, the tram, subway and the trains had major problems so it was pretty much chaos when we headed back home after having been to the 1 years birthday to Veslemøy.

Some of you might say that people in Oslo complains to much with the following argument “Where we live, a bit of snow is not a problem”. But just to give you an example, our road Haugerudhagan have not seen a plow truck the entire weekend, so driving here is now pretty hard to do. In fact, I have realized that if it isn’t a matter of life and death, our car won’t leave the garage. When you then add that some people doesn’t even have snow tyres, you can understand that even the easiest road might turn into the highway to hell.