Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Out Drinking Teams

Utdrikningslag is what it's called in Norwegian .. and how odd that it translates literally to Out drinking Team!!! Fantistic not so?? So funny ...anyways .. I'm sure that it came about because of the origins of it all... being... back in the day people lived so far from each other that celebrating someone's union to another was a real cause for GOING OUT .. out of the way ... and drinking in the local pub .... as a big ole team ... I'm just assuming here ..
anyways ... I've been to one .. and it is soo different from the way that we do ours in Trinidad.  It's very much planned ... and they do a whole day of activities ... For example. My husbands Bacholer party... or out drinking team .. (its too long ok .. so I'll just type Bacholer/Bacholerette Party) was to pick him up from his home, took him to a biplane ride (I think it did flips and stunts) all the while there might have been a little drinking in some where.... admittantly ...then headed over to a big barn where they played sumo wrestling ... in big blow up sumo wrestler outifts .... Don't mind that some guy who was over drunk (or 'full' in norwegian) decided to knock him out so that he was passed out on the floor ... much to the forlover's (best man's) dismay.  But really woudn't you want that instead of people making you dress skantily and giving you lots of lingerie??? i love that word ... since it almost never lingers.... you dont really GET anything big .. i think ... at least not at the one that I went to... Although ... I have a usual Bachelorette party gift that I give .... no matter what .... Needless to say ... it was VERY embarrassing when My good ole friend who invited me to her bachelorette party is opening simple gifts and the game is that she should guess who gave it to her ... and I had no idea that it was supposed to be hard .. so I gave her an obvious picture of her and her fiance from our wedding ... and a edible underwear tucked in the back .. (since I HAD to get that in) ... so of course .. from little snacks and the such that she got from other people .. I was a little red... purple...crimson what ever colour we reds get when embarrassed and need a whole to jump into.  It was apparantly NOT the occasion for an edible underwear ....
But other than that .. she got picked up in one of those Side Cars on a motorbike and got a ride around.. then it was to a spa for treatment then we all met up for lunch in the city, followed by a class in Belly dancing then, dinner at someone's home, then party into the night..... while the guys on the other side were out braving the high seas in a speed boat, the groom's gliding lesson got cancelled because of too much wind, then they were in a cabin in the woods with my husband as chef cooking steaks on open stones outside ....
If this sounds like fun and very much a memorable experience ... then I think so too! ...
This last one we saw the results at the wedding.  It was a music video that involved Madcon's Glow. Very impressive and it shows that there was so much thought and work put into the single night ... And this was something that was planned for AGES before .... VERY impressive ....
I have to admit .. If every I get married again (Tough luck with that ... I'm happily stuck to hubby) I would definitely want my well ... Bachelorette party planned by a norwegian .. :) ... Can I order a night in the ice hotel with that????
Whey yuh say??

1 comment:

  1. Wow, that sounds amazing! I think I'd want a party planned by a Norwegian. Period.

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