Papa's TORsdag: A very special gift from a very special person

A package was posted in St Paul, Minnesota on February 11, 2009.
Destination Oslo, Norway.
From a Female to a Male and Female. The receivers Names: Very strange. And the Adress: Unspeakable. In American. Because of the missing "O-Slash" and "A-ring" capabilities on the English Keyboards.
Package:
Wrapped up in a "Heart Rate Monitor" box.
Very suspicious.
Full Alarm - in the US Authorities.

Was the package opened and inspected? Was something stolen?
Did they read the message inside? Did they test the content?

Here is what did pass the Quarantine. The best of Minnesota Wild Rice.
I ponder how many people were involved in the brave effort to protect Homeland and International Security? And how many chemical tests were done? If any?
Why do I ponder? It was posted Feb 11 - 2009, and received on March 5 - 2009.
PS. Enlarge and you'll have a recipe for free.

Any messages? Yes. Here you see the adress on the envelope that was inside the package.
This is so beautiful and created from Heart.

And here, a Norwegian Proverb. From my very dear Suzann in St. Paul, Minnesota. I love this design. And the Proverb.
If you'll find a path without Grass between St Paul in Minnesota (USA) and Oslo (Norway), you know who has walked on that Path.

What was personally written on the other side, will remain between Suzann, Anna and me.
Don't even speculate.

This is, my dear blogger friends, yet another brilliant example how bloggers across miles, nations and oceans enlarge the value of life.

PS. If you have not yet visited Suzann's blog, it's about time you do. She is one of a kind.
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A WONDERFUL SURPRISE

Papa and Ingelin taking farwell in Buenos Aires. Around Midnight, Sunday Dec 10. (yes, we took photos of the driver and the Taxi number - blondes you know) - What a wonderful time we had together in Argentina + Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil.

This post is different from what I did plan. The reason is obvious, if you spend some seconds to read.

First thing I did this Monday morning (after our return from Argentina) due to the fact it was a message in our Mail Box when we returned from Argentina:

You have a Mail. It's to large to deliver in your standard Mail Box. You can pick it up at your nearest Post in Shop (yeah, we do have combined local Stores and Post Offices in Norway).

This is the envelope:

Dear Naomi, we will put it under our Christmas Tree and open it on Christmas Eve. We are so excited. And will show the whole blogosphere your gift to us. On Christmas Day. (We can hardly wait - kids you know...)

Naomi, you might recall a movie named "The Mission"? We was there on our Voyage. A Natural wonder, where all location shots were taken. (More to come ...)
flowering Cactuses:

Cactus Wild Forest. Quedabra el Toro (What else - the name I mean - LOL)

Twin Flowers. (More to come...)

Discover the true world at Mrs Lifecruiser. Where the unexcepted allways happens.

Believe it or not, Tuesday, some of my readers are very well aware of Gattina's Cats on Tuesdays, will be dedicated to "Cats we met in Argentina" - (and Uruguay) - believe it or not, it's also interesting for non-cat lovers.