Jana's birthday excursion for coffee in Drøbak

Drøbak, such a small little village... and I'm about to go there now for a third time! The reason is simple, but the story behind a bit longer.

On Tuesday, Moritz will leave Norway and fly back to Germany. His internship is over now. Right now he's travelling to the North Cape, but we will meet him on Monday evening to say good bye.

In any case, we need a farewell present for him. It wasn't actually that easy, because we needed something that would still fit in his limited and already over-weight luggage. And we needed it by Monday evening. Hmmm...

Then I had an idea: when we were on that RIB-boat tour to Oscarsborg 10 days ago [see blog post here] Moritz totally fell in love with those trapper hats. They are totally in at the moment. There are so many people in town running around with them and Moritz kept on mentioning how cool he thought they were.

Jana liked the idea as well and so we had started our search for these hats. This was easier said than done. I called that guy from the RIB-boat company, Roy, told him about desperately looking for those hats for Moritz and asked him where he got those hats from. He said he ordered them from a wholesaler in Bergen. Since ordering something on the internet wouldn't fit into our time schedule, Roy offered to have a look into his boat tour equipment. In case he still had a new, unused hat (he had recently bought new ones) he would sell it to us. He even offered to send it to us via regular mail, because he wouldn't make it from Drøbak to Oslo before Monday.

Instead, Jana and I thought the other way round: that going to Drøbak would actually be a nice sunday excursion for us. Jana had never been there before so we offered Roy to actually come over and pick the hat up.

However, Roy didn't have any unused hats left, but Jana and I decided to go anyways. Just for keeping up our tradition of doing something (preferrably outside) on a sunday. And additionally: it was Jana's birthday!

We started with a visit of the Julehus Drøbak is famous for. It has all sorts of Christmas stuff and also a Father Christmas post box for kids.

Later we walked over to a small café called "Hos Hanna" to have some tea and hot chocolate as well as a piece of traditional Norwegian gulrotkake (carrot cake).

A little present for Jana.

Self-made hot chocolate: you dip a stick with chocolate of your choice in warm frothy milk! Very funny and cool to see the chocolate slowly melting in the hot milk.

After our sweets stop at the café we walked a little around the village. It was already dark though and also quite cold. So we decided to take the next bus back home to Oslo.

I hope Jana had a nice birthday, though it was just a little excursion.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jana!