disqualified!

Today was the day: the Norwegian reindeer racing championships down main street in Tromsø. I'd waited for this day for a year. Despite the fact that I'm trying to get myself on a plane to the U.S. tomorrow morning and have packing and tons of other stuff to do, I HAD to see the races. And this year I got video footage! It's incredible!

I also found out from Tove that her favorite reindeer from last year had been disqualified. What? A reindeer disqualified? I assumed that it must have done something bad...like hired a hit man to smash the other reindeer's knees. Or taken steroids.
Nope.
It was a Finnish reindeer. No Finnish reindeer allowed in the Norwegian championship, duh.

So I'm off to Texas tomorrow. Wish me luck. I still haven't finished my presentation and have nothing to wear. So I guess I'll just stand naked in front of everyone and sing them some Roxette.