After a short night of sleep, I woke at 8:30, but wasn’t
feeling that great after my night of drinking, so I went for an old cure,
exercise. I headed out for a three mile
run that involved lapping the Royal Palace twice! Some very nice scenery surrounds the Palace
and makes for a great run/walk. However,
I don’t think many people run through the city streets, since I received
multiple odd looks as I approached/left the Palace area. After getting back, showering and getting
back in my Bunad, I met with everyone else in the lobby around 10:00. It was then that C.J. shared his story from
the night before. Along with buying a
lesbian drinks all night, he returned to the hotel around 4:00 and had issues
getting into his room. Instead of
figuring out another way to get in, he decided it would be easiest to just
sleep in the hallway!! Here, in the
Grand Hotel, where some of the most famous people in the world have walked the
halls, C.J. was making his bed! I love
that guy! Even better, at 6:00, he was
woken by a hotel employee who simply and politely said, “Sir, you can’t sleep
in the hall.” Ha! Eventually, he figured out how to get into
his room and was able to catch a few more hours of sleep, but still was
definitely not feeling that great throughout the remainder of the day!
After we all shared a laugh with C.J., they brought us in to
a special room in the hotel where there was a breakfast set up and cameras
ready to film. We were given
instructions on how to reenact a Syttende Mai breakfast that we never had. A little strange, since we had to remember
not to mention what we had seen and had to discuss what we thought may happen
that day. They even had us take several
takes, since we were lacking the energy the director was looking for, due to
most of us being hung over! It was also
interesting to be filming this scene with Dana there, since he was eliminated
the day before, but since we were shooting out of order, he needed to sit in
with us. I have to give him props
though, he handled it really well. Probably
much better than I would have!
After breakfast, we headed to the rooftop bar to do our
closing scene, which also involves handing out the Norwegian Spirit Award. We did our typical closing scene conversing
about the day as a group, doing several cheers for the person eliminated
(Dana), and then Henriette comes in to hand out the Spirit Award Troll. This week, as many of us had guessed, it went
to Amy, due to the incident that she had after the street performance. I don’t think that’s the only reason that she
received it, but it was definitely reason enough.
After the award was handed out, director Kristian asked us
to do our Bunad rap that we had written, on camera!! We had only practiced it twice through as a
group, so I wasn’t sure how it would go.
Plus, last night, when we were writing our verses in the hotel room,
Dana was our “beat-box” and was able to give us some good rhythm to rap
to. Since this scene was happening after
Dana had been eliminated, he couldn’t be there, which meant that hung-over C.J.
was going to do it. There wasn’t
anything we could do about it, so we just went for it!
They didn’t have a good transition for it, so Kristian just
told me to ask C.J. for a beat. With
that, awkwardly, I looked at C.J. and said, “give me a beat!” Next thing you know, the whole group is
standing up, around a table and getting in the groove, with C.J. beat boxing in
the back. I started the song with the
chorus, then passed it around the group, so that each one of us could rap the
verse that they wrote. Some of the
verses were pretty terrible, some of them weren’t too bad, but overall, it was
a lot of fun! We ended up being able to
get it done in only two takes and the only reason that we had to stop and start
over was poor C.J. actually started to throw up while trying to keep up the
beat! I doubt it will be aired, but that
would have made for some great TV! We
ended the song back with the chorus and a lot of yelling. It might not have been the greatest rap song
ever, but it seemed to be catchy enough, since we caught many crew members
singing it throughout the rest of the day.
One of the crew members even said that they thought it could become
really popular! Kind of like the
American Idol guy that wrote “Pants on the Ground”. How crazy would that be?!
When we were done filming, we went out to lunch and said our
final goodbye’s to Dana. Everyone had
their pictures and hugs with him and said Aloha. However, it was interesting to see everyone,
both cast and crew, sticking around to see how he and Tara would say
goodbye. They had a long embrace,
whispering into each other’s ears and then, as Dana went to leave, Tara lunged
in for one more hug and placed a kiss right on his lips! I guess we all knew what was going on, but it
was just strange to see it happening, since each one of us kept thinking,
“that’s a married woman!” To each their
own, I guess.
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| Saying goodbye to Dana. Dude was a free-spirit and made the trip/show very interesting! |
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| A look at the crew setting up for interviews with Kristian (director), Stian (sound guy) and Odd (camera man). |
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