It was an ordinary week and we had decided to visit mother in law and celebrate her birthday. We took a trip, ate some good food and had some coffee. Even if it rained on this day it was a great trip and mother in law loved it.
Mr Breivik, an anti-Muslim extremist who blamed Labour for increased immigration, is believed to have single-handedly shot dead 69 people at a party summer camp on the island of Utoeya, hours after killing eight with a car bomb near government buildings in central Oslo.
Later in the week it was the Baltic Sea Festival in Karlshamn and the kids wanted to go. I went with them and we had some fun. We walked around, looked at all the things that was on sale. T-shirts, candy and balloons.
The man who admitted the bomb and gun attacks which rocked Norway has said under interrogation he had other targets, police say.
There was even jewerly, shoes, bags and other stuff. And lots of carousels. They tested some of the carousels named Remix and Spider Man. It was fun and they loved it.
Earlier Friday, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, other political leaders and relatives of the victims attended a memorial service organized by the Labour Party youth movement to commemorate those killed and wounded.
Meanwhile I just stood on the ground with two big balloons, a horse and a Smurf, and watched them go round and round.
The attack on Utoya targeted members of the Labour Party's youth movement as they attended a summer camp.
It was sunny and warm that Friday and we where so happy when we walked home to hubby and mother in law. We had som much to tell them about the festival and what we saw and that we had bought candy too.
On Friday, Norwegian authorities completed the identification of the dead, releasing the names of all 77. Their ages ranged from 14 to 61, with an average age of 21.
The first thing we heard was how hubby told us that there had been bad things happening in Oslo, Norway. Something, a bomb and several bombs, had exploded in the city. Many hurt and some dead. And it got worse during the evening. A man, dressed up as a police killed Norways future, the young people that where at a camp and had fun. He just shot, shot, shot and shot.
There and then everything changed for Norway. On that Friday, 22nd July 2011. Nothing will be the same for a while. They will try to heal the wounds and start slowly to live as normal. At the same time when I had fun with my kids, the kids in Norway ran for their life. At the same time when I stood there with two balloons, kids in Norway tried to swim away from a maniac. At the same time when we walked, with smiles home, several people in the city were chocked and did not know what had happened.
You can not say that it will never happen here. Suddenly your ordinary day can be a chaos.
God holds Norway in His hands. Blessings, Niina
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