Oslo's been pretty boring for the last 2 days.. I had expected springtime to be different somehow, tulips, other flowers blooming all around. Unfortunately trees are still balding and most landscape is still dry and brown. But looks like this itself is like yippeee springtime for the Norwegians :) I guess after about 6 ft of snow during winter, anything is welcome :)
Had been to the city center yesterday on a desperate attempt to find a salon for some urgent needs (ahem.. we women are quite high maintenance unfortunately!). So what I did realize is that Oslo lacks enough beauty salons ! I am not kidding. They are sparse by nature and all running full even at 8 PM in the night ! Any smart entrepreneur should just open a chain of salons here and it will totally flourish ...
After a lot of searching, I finally found a nice one which graciously agreed to take a walk-in.. This girl who worked on me was super sweet and really very nice.. I have always felt that Norwegians and Swedish women have the best skins.. pure alabaster n cream.. So i was interested in the facials they had to offer.. As inviting the services were, the price list was equally shocking.. I guess seeing the expression of shock on my face after seeing the service catalogue, the sweet girl actually offered me a free facial !! I mean, in which country does that happen ?? She just said, since you havent been able to spend much time in Oslo to see around, I can at least do this for you .. I mean, I was totally speechless.. Believe me, things like these do not happen to me.. Now my hubby is quite the opposite.. Things happen to him all the time.. But me.. na na.. I am the kind who has even paid for extra 2 KG baggage, while he has gotten away with a whole extra suitcase and a smile ! Well, theres more, he's even won ipods at supermarkets!!
So, imagine my surprise when someone actually offers something like this.. So, yours truly has had a really nice evening in Oslo, thanks to the sweet girl at Magic in Oslo City mall :)
Heading to Copenhagen tomm.. toodles !
ps: Helsinki was really boring...
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