The 17th of May was on a Monday this year - which meant no work! It was also a 5 day weekend since Ascension Day was Thursday and Friday is a extra holiday day too. We had a nice lazy long weekend after a good birthday dinner with our friends Erin and Micheal on Wednesday. Originally we had hoped to be in England for this long weekend but that was shot down by our visa issue (which is now supposedly corrected and we can travel). If you don't remember the details of this holiday here is the post from last year.
For the 17th of May we decided to head up to a little town about 40Km north of here called Stjørdal for a small town celebration. The city is near the airport and has about 20,000 residents including one of Jason's colleague- Gisle. We arrived in time to walk down to the main road to see the Children's Parade - which lasted about 3 minutes. Trondheim's parade is about 45 minutes to give you an idea on size.
Children's Parade
We walked back to Gisle's house and were treated to a traditional meal. Our meal consisted of a meatball soup called Sodd with potatoes, some crackers and non alcoholic ginger beer. It a simple meal but pretty tasty though I won't be trying to replicate it at home :) After that we headed back into "downtown" Stjørdal to catch the afternoon parade which consists of local groups and the Russers! It was pretty short as well but seeing the Russers was pretty funny.
Traditional dress
Local sports clubs
Here is a video of the Russ section of the parade. The red pant kids are general studies and the black pants kids who look a lot rougher are technical trade studies. They are handing out and throwing their "Russkorts" which are like business cards or trading cards and the kids collect them. It is not uncommon to see a 5 year old with about 100 cards. Excuse my laughing but it was pretty funny to see these little kids picking up the cards like they were dollar bills or something.
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