To Hell and back - literally!

So after a 6 hour flight to London, a 2 hour layover, a 1.5 hour flight to Oslo, another 2 hour layover, and an hour flight to Trondheim, we finally made it. well, almost. The airport is actually in a town called vaernes. so then it was onto a bus for another 40 minute ride. We did drive through the town of Hell. So it's true folks! In the winter, Hell really does freeze over.
We arrived in Trondheim to discover that our apartment building has no front steps... and it quite a jump up to the door! Not sure if this is a work in progress or a permanent thing -my rudimentary norwegian doesn't allow me to read the sign on our door telling us when it's our week to clean the communal stairs in the building, much less figure out why my door is 5 feet off the ground. :) Our apartment is on the third floor of the building. it's super cute, with a nice kitchen, living room, and 2 bedrooms. The roof slopes on one side of the apartment, so we'll have to try to remember not to jump out of bed suddenly or we risk major concussions.
After unpacking and discovering an english tv channel - there is a god, and he wants wayne to be able to watch "the King of Queens" - we decided to hit the market to stock up on some groceries. This proved to be way more challenging than anticipated... recipes on the back of boxes call for measurements like "ss" and "dl"... i have no idea what that means. We spent a lot of time staring at lunch meat packages trying to figure out what was turkey and what was some other mystery meat. shopping is pretty frustrating when you can't read the packages! i found some peanut butter - yeah!! But i was able to decipher on the jar that it's made with "88% peanuts". i can't quite figure out what the other 12% is.... the peanut butter i buy in the states is just peanuts and salt. I thought Eurpean countries were supposed to be more "whole foodish"?? In the end, we only ended up getting enough stuff for breakfast and one other meal.. (yay fajitas!) and we spent close to 55 bucks. :) shew!! i know Norway is expensive but i still get sticker shock when i go out.
Tomorrow's task - i'm going to tackle trying to figure out how to use the washing machine! all the instructions, of course are in Norwegian, so this may end up being a bigger thing than i'm anticipating.