The most adventerous Ah-sicks in Singapore

we had a Singaporean feast! Cooked curry chicken and suan la tang for dinner, we had made almond jelly too, but were too full after dinner. Instead we had this…

chocolate pudding and vanilla cream. It was soooooooooo yummy! And so after the heavy meal, we went hiking up tjeldibergtinden (360++m). Trond drove us to the bottom of the mountain and we began the hike up. After much snooping in the bushes and following a misleading path, we found the actual path which led up the mountain. Was a rocky path which pretty much went upslope all the way. Reminded me of the time in NZ when we were trudging up Mount Sebastopol, grabbing onto plants and rocks as we climbed up. But lucky this wasn’t as ‘heart-in-the-mouth’ experience as that. I remember after that Anna, the guide who was commenting that my shoes were not really hiking shoes said ‘Now you have the most adventurous Pumas in Singapore!’. Half-way up we had to cross a marshy area and I had a strange cooling feeling at my feet. Great. The water had come in and I was soon walking in my soggy socks. Bleh. My shoes were wet and a little muddy, and I washed it before I came some more! Waste my effort!

It took us about 40 minutes to get to the top. It was only then that I realized how hard I had been panting. Must be coz of the crazy training that dragonboat does to me, that I’ve become so used to panting my lungs out it seems like second nature. Despite it being cloudy and foggy, we still got an aerial view of Svolvaer to the left and kabelvåg to the right and the sea in the front and the mountains at the back.

Svolvaer

kabelvåg

At the summit was a little box (you can see it in the pic of kabelvåg) with a book wrapped in plastic for people to write their names in it. It hadn’t occurred to me initially, and I opened the box wondering what was inside, bcc said ‘what do you think it was for, a post-box for the mountain troll?!’ *hmph* anyhow we left a message there.

Ha, the ‘not in china’ note started after pl and I went on a boat trip and someone asked us where we were from and when we told him we were from Singapore, he was like ‘oh, I know someone in Beijing’. Since then, we’ve whenever we wrote in a guest book, we’d always write something like this..

Thank goodness for the hike up, I’d earned my chocolate pudding I had eaten before.

And now I have the most adventurous Ah-sicks in Singapore!