Silver and gold

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A wonderful, diciplined striker. A calm and friendly person. A family man. I've only heard good things about this Manu striker. Among norwegian football players only Erik "Myggen" Mykland can compare.

He's back and he's doing really good.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

I feel a bit sad today, thinking about last nights World Cup final in Berlin. It's not because Italy won, it's because Zinedine Zidane got the red card. That was a sad way for his carrier to end. He's always been different than other football stars, not obsessed with a fancy lifestyle, Zidane's obsession have been showed through his fancy and genious moves on the field. Something his penalty yeasterday showed us, that was cold as ice! And today I'm asking the same question as everyone else; what on earth did Materazzi say to him?

Anyways; Zinedine Zidane got his name written among the greatest players of all time.

Chairs Zizou!

What a day! I've spent it outside under a blue sky; reading for my coming exam and I've finished my "Bono on Bono" book. And today I've just felt so excited about the future. You know, as a child of God, I got all reasons to feel very excited for the things ahead. No dought. Chair up folks...

Therefore, since er are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin wich clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Hebrews 12

But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead... Philippians 3

Spending a couple of days in Oslo, I heard a cool guy said something that's been on my mind theese days:

"God is not most of all our working manager, 

but he is most of all our Father"

Hey, I'm a child of God...

Tomorrow really is a big day, my very good friends Øystein and Janne are getting married. What a day! And I am the best man, what a honour. This evening is spent on a hotel room down town Bergen. Just relaxing, watching TV and prepearing our speaches. The groom are starting to get nervous. But he don't need to be, he is such a nice guy, full of joy and humor. He's a faithful servent of the Lord and a great friend!

Wish you the best of days tomorrow Øystein!

And I know I'll always be blessed with love!

Eva Mari and myself are at moment enjoying our winter vacation in Coventry with Silje&Nick + the two wonderful kids in the house; Eden and Mattias. Today we have been to Warwick castle wich is the most beautiful castle in the whole of UK, pretty impressive huh?

We spend our time here playing with the kids, travel around the city to watch and shop, we are drinking loads of really good coffee (they got Starbucks here) and did I mention playing with the kids. They're just wonderful children and I must say that I start to get the hang on it!! Check out Eva's blog for more on that! Silje is cocking some really tasty food. What more can I say, we enjoy our week in Coventry very much!

I'm also very excited cause I've got some great books over here. I've got "Bono on Bono", a really interesting book where Bono is talking to a journalist that has followed U2 for more than twenty years. Exciting stuff! And I got Neil Coles "Organic Church"; a book I really look forward to read. Plus Nick got me the old classic "Ultimate Intention" by De Vern Fromke. Thank you Nick! So the next weeks ya all can expect my wisdom to increase to a high level.

We got a couple of days left here in the UK to play, shop, drink coffee and spend time with the Howes family! Yeah!

This post is dedicated to one of the greatest norwegian athletes of all time. The norwegian downhill superman Kjetil Andre Aamodt. He is the youngest and the oldest downhill racer to ever winn a gold medal in the Olympics. He got alltogether 20 World Championship or Olympic medals. At the age of 32 he took a gold medal in the Super-G competition in Torino on Saturday, thats fourteen years after he took his first olympic gold medal in Albertville in 92.

What a athlete!

This years winter olympics in Toronto is opened. The highlight so far is Lars Bystøls gold medal in the first ski jumping competition last night!

Faster, higher and stronger!