Syttende Mai

The Jerdees and Underwoods gathered together at Allen and Becky's to celebrate the Norwegian Constitution Day (May 17th). Not only was it a good excuse to have a party on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, but it was a nice chance to recognize our family heritage.

Note the cards in the pictures written in Norwegian, there was a test hosted by future teacher Hunter Underwood after dinner, won by Allen. There was also a Norwegian quiz which was won by Amy, her prize was a CD of Norwegian music. The prizes for the spelling test were the entire collection of books relating to Norway available from the Half Price Bookstore, which totaled 5.

Hunter burned the midnight oil preparing the decorations the night before the celebration with the help of Becky and Al. There was also a few minutes of telling Ole and Sven jokes, with a couple laughs and many groans. Amy and Dave prepared a slideshow of the pictures from their trip to Norway with Beverly and the Shearers.

The meal was prepared by Becky with help from the Aquavit cookbook: various things wrapped in Lefse, vin, gul erte suppe (yellow pea soup (of which the boys had many laughs over), svin (pork ribs), poteter (mashed potatoes), surkål (sauerkraut), tyttebær (lingonberry juice), all followed up with a dessert of krinlga, glögg and Linie Aquavit (none for the boys though).