bring on the flotemysost!

So i'm feeling a bit better about the whole "no clothes" thing.. thanks to a 39 kroner (8 dollar) latte. Ain't nothin coffee can't fix. (Can i get an amen from dad and barb?)
I decided to brave walking around town by myself this afternoon - which i hate when i don't know the language. it generally just takes me a few days to get over that. :) I did the daily grocery store trip and decided to pick up some of the local cheese called flotemysost. It is a brown sweet cheese that is supposed to be good on bread or for dessert with fruit. It's actually really interesting - part cow's milk and part goat milk (apparently the more goat's milk in it, the sharper it is). It tastes like it has caramel in it! definitely a much sweeter cheese than i am used to, but good. :)
A couple of other interesting food notes (of course, these are the things I notice!): a "tex-mex" sandwich around here has tzaziki sauce on it... and an "american" pizza has "kebab sauce". i'm not really sure what kebab sauce is, considering that kebabs around here are a little different than what we consider to be kebabs. "Kebabs" are apparently the ultimate after drinking food. The routine is to get your friends together, drink at home for a few hours, the go to the bars for a few hours, then go to the clubs for a few hours, then some kind of "after party thing" (i think, anyway, we didnt get a good translation on that last one), and then after the long night of drinking you go get a kebab. There are TONS of kebab places in town! From the pictures we've seen, it looks like chunks of meat, sauce, lettuce, on a pita (like a gyro, almost) and then french fries stuck in the pita as well. definitely gonna have to give that one a try before we leave.
I walked around the mall across the street a little today and spent my 150 kroner "allowance". I found a BIG (yay!) grocery store that carried cheddar!!! So now i can make my "smack and cheese", as karen calls it. :) that makes me very, very happy... need a little comfort food, and especially since we are completely cooking everything at home it helps to have some standards. I also found a book store with "engelsk" books, so i picked up something to keep me entertained for a while.
weird thing i noticced walking around today: you don't always get change when you buy something. I gave the woman 40 kr today for my latte, and she didn't offer me 1 kr back. Same thing at the grocery stores - if something is 29.50, they won't bother giving you the 50 cent peice. Actually i just discovered today that they even had them when i stuck my money in an automatic machine today and got 50 cents change. weird. Also, the smallest bill you can have is 50 kr.. a little less than 10 bucks. Today i ended up with pocket full of change that was around 30 bucks. :)