Thursday, March 31, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday, March 04, 2011
The Index of Effluency
This is a book published by one of Jim and my old friends. Philip Hubner helped us to finance Eden back in the early days. His confidence and enthusiasm helped us so much!
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Monday, February 07, 2011
Salsa Dancing at Eden to the sounds of Juanito!
Our Top guests
We are so lucky to have many many repeat guests every year. Here is a cute photo of Jane and Mark, and Tisa and Bill. Who have been visiting us since the early days. Hi guys!!
Manzanillo Bay Annual Sharkfest Swim December 2011
Some of our long term guests Dave & Wendy anre the proud owners of Enviro Sports, which organizes marathons, triathlons and swims in the U.S.
So the tenative plan is that they bring their signature event "Sharkfest" to Manzanillo Bay.
As you can see the t-shirts are already printed!
We are hoping to schedule the event for December 20011.
We will keep you posted.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Sea turtle in action in front of Eden
This morning after an amazing moon set (video later) our guests discovered this lovely mama turtle laying her eggs. Nature is in full force here at Eden!
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Thank you Mariana!
Mariana has been working on a new flyer for the Fruity Keiko shop here in Oslo. This is the final version and i think that is it so cute! On the bottom if this image is too small you can see photos of each of the FK's. Nice touch!
Monday, March 01, 2010
Frozen Fjord!
Last week while Nick Brown was here in Oslo visiting us, we went on a shivvery walk down to the Fjord. Now i kind of thought that, ok the fjord freezes, but probably in places where the water is still, and no boats go by. Not so! The Fjord is frozen all over the place. Of course it was BELOW ZERO, and had been for a while. There is ice all over the place. You can see the sea guls sitting on the ice. And we couldn't break though it with big snow chunks no matter how hard we threw them. Apparently the city of Oslo has installed underwater pipes around the very edges closest to the buildings, filled with warm water, to keep the ice away from essential stuff.
It made for a beautiful afternoon, (of course the sun helped!) snow over everything, ice and blue sky. I guess that is why people come here on vacation. (or even to live.)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Introducing....HAM!
We have a new member of our family! No, it's not Nick Brown! Nick was visiting us last week from England, and was the inspiration for this video, filmed by August. It's always more fun when more kids are involved!
We have actually had Ham for about 2 months. He is from Oslo, and was 36 days old when we got him. He is a good boy, and always eats his supper plus any other chewable items you leave in his cage! He tended to bite a bit when we first got him but he has now figured out what is food and what is hand. Although, one time he did actually bite a piece off of Jim's computer mouse. He recognized the interloper!
Ham is all white and loves dates and walnuts. August has to clean out his cage every 3 days. We thought about taking him out into the snow to see how he would like it but were a bit worried that he might dissapear! We love Ham!
To see on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02xPeUjpIU
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Fruity Keiko Oslo is in full swing!
Finally at long last i have a moment to write about our latest endevour. Fruity Keiko has it's latest incarnation at Riddervolds Plass in Oslo. We are in a great neighbour hood and we have nice and well established neighbours!
We opened our doors officially on the 19th of November and have been going strong ever since. I have been getting great feedback on all of the colorful things in the shop and how fun it is to have something "different" in this area of town.
Lots of times here in Oslo things get broken up into "areas". The ethnick area, the
funky area etc... maybe that is the way of bigger cities in general. But anyway we have bucked the trend and people seem to like it. But then i have said many times if you can't get people to come into your shop at Christmas time you are doing something wrong. So i guess we are on the right foot here at the beginning at least.We had a fun party on the opening! Lots of folks showed up to have Pink Punch and tost the night away. It was great and a good luck start for Ms Keiko.
It has been super cold lately, as in 10 degrees f. I desperatly need another heater in the shop. For the moment i am so swathed in sweathers that i can hardly move! But hey, I'm warm! I was having visions of putting in a fireplace in the cellar and just sticking to it like glue till sping. But i don't actually think that is an option!
I meet lots of nice people everyday who are willing to converse with me in some seriously funny Norwegian (mine!) Tusen Takk! The only thing that is missing is all of our wonderful friends from the Hotel in Troncones!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Container has arrived in Oslo!!
On Thursday our container arrived from Mexico: Yea!! We have been waiting for it for the last two months. It has been delayed several times along the way and we have had a huge, sometimes painful, always patience-taxing, learning experience.
But, in the end, good things do indeed come to those who wait!
The truck arrived in the afternoon with a light dusting of snow swirling down. As the now somewhat rusted seal came off the container and we gazed at its long awaited contents, we were actually a bit amazed at how many boxes there were! We knew there were 112 of them, but . . . !?
By the end of the afternoon, we had moved each one of those boxes many, many times. We unloaded the truck about 100 meters away from the shop on the other side of the street. It added another "leg" to the unloading, but it was by far the best place for the truck to stop space-wise. Once the truck was unloaded, we then "two-wheeled" the boxes over to the front of the shop.
Once there, we had to get them through the surprisingly narrow-seeming front door and up the 2 inside steps into the shop proper. From there, they had to be carried down a long-ish flight of stairs, across a small tri-level area, and through another doorway into the storage room. There were only 3 crates we couldn't physically fit into the shop. We took those apart outside on the sidewalk and carried the merchandise inside by hand. The crates were rather full of styrofoam peanuts though and with a stiff wind blowing, we had a fair amount of cleanup to do all down the street.
We hired two men to help with the unloading & moving. We called a telephone number on your basic streetlight posted moving service flyer and were very happy with the worker's performance. Jim referred to them as our "Eritreans", but we don't actually know where they were from. Only one of them spoke some Norwegian and we never stopped moving long enough to cover our personal histories! Our moving guys needed to break to pray at one point. They did their ritual ablutions at the sink in the back and prayed right in the front of the shop. Jim really wanted a picture of that for the blog, but, you know, we agreed that should remain their private business.
It was a fair amount of toting all told, but from start to finish we got everything into the shop and almost all of it into the downstairs store room in just 3 1/2 hours flat. The 3 hours of wages for the workers only set us back about $350.00 (!). Eva (my mom) & I worked on unpacking on Friday and Jim & I did more unpacking and cleaning up packing materials (35 large black plastic trash bags full of balled up &/or shredded newspaper alone?!) on Saturday. When we left the shop last night there were just 5 more boxes to open! We hope that we may be able to start on displays by Thursday.
There's rather a lot of final & touch up painting & cleaning that needs to be done now though, so we will see, never-the-less we will be working to make it happen.
Fruity Keiko Oslo here we come!!
Thursday, November 05, 2009
We are open for the season!!
Hello Everybody! Eden is open again for the season! All of the Eden team have worked their harts out to get it together in the most beautiful way. Special thanks to the ever wonderful and hardest working guy, Pedro!! Thank you Pedro!! Then to all the "Ladies" Suzy, Vicky and Maria, Thank you! An none of this would gel if it weren't for our fantastic Management team Eva Sedlak, Mariana & Alejandro! Yeah!!
We started off the season with Jennifer Etners wedding party. Mariana co-ordunated the wedding and apparently it was wonderful in everyway! (waiting for photos!) The shop has come together as well after a whirl-wind week of shop preperations from Sherry and Iris. Christian and his team have got the restaurant in top knotch shape (one week early no less!!). Chocolate sprinkle cake anyone!
Yesterday Mariana and the Ladies put together the day of the dead altar. It is deffinatelly the best alter that we have ever done. Thank you to the creative force of Mariana, and the nimble fingers of Suzy, Vick and Maria. It looks marvelous. A couple of sad additions to the alter are our much loved and missed Chef, Duane Mae, and former nanny and "Lady"herself, Berenice, both who passed away in May this year. Duane and Berry i hope you see the lights we have lit for you.
Friday, October 09, 2009
Sweet warmth!
Today october 9th we lit the fire place (or is it a stove?)
. Now that i have done my research. We have a Jotun stove here in Oslo. It is from the first stove company to make stoves in Norway, starting back in the 1830's. It's super efficient, apparently. We heated the living room and kitchen for two hours with only 13 Kroner. Not bad. We can also make tea on top of it, dry our clothes by it and use it for getting rid of documents. I love it, multi functional! Apparently it is also easy in Oslo to get free wood from green grocers that get lots of extra crates and the like that they need to get rid of. What more do you want?!Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Super Belated Birthday!!
Here was Jim, Evita, Eva and Elodies birthday. With a larger than life cream cake with a marzipan topping and fruit filling. Wow! It was awsome!! Of course the flaming candels pretty much took it...the cake that is!
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Evita starts Ballet
Who can resist 4 year old ballerinas? They are sooooo cute!
This is Evita's new dance class. They have a lovely teacher and lots of enthusiasm. We go once a week and it is definitely the best deal in town. Yeah!
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