Christmas comes to Chaguaramas

In the form of four Santa's elves from Flekkefjord. Two via Luxembourg!

We are ready and waiting at the Crown Plaza Hotel. A couple boat bums amongst the busy businesmen in the cool lobby. At 19:30pm we have them: Åse and Ludvig Egeland! And a couple of hours behind, Inger Johanne and Gjermund Røynestad. Great to see good friends here for the carneval!!
We "lime" and have a bite in the bar. There's a lot to catch up on: the snowy winter in Norway, the goings on in Flekkefjord City, and Ørnulf's now ex-workplace, Tinfos.
Does anybody back home miss us? Or have they actually noticed we're gone!?

Then an elevator ride up to the 9th floor. And, WOW!, Christmas has arrived in Trinidad! Plastic shopping bags full of Norwegian goodies! For Ørnulf, a big, brown goat cheese. Oh, goody! For Shannon, tubes of Mill's caviar! And for all the good boys and girls aboard "Babette" (all two of them) there are bags of soups, sauces,the ones from Luxembourg with exotic sounding names, mackerel tins, crackers, disolvable powdered milk and the world's best milk chocolate:
yummmmmmmmmmm.