Ok, this will probably be easier if I'd start with all this from the beginning. We met sometime during the summer of 98. We were both pretty bored and decided to join an online Babylon 5 Role Playing Game. We were assigned to the same ship. I was Captain Lydell and he was First Officer Firefly :) I think that he was the first one of us to quit because frankly, that club was boring but we kept in touch and found out that we had more in common besides Babylon 5 being our favorite show. We like the same type of music, have the same opinions on pretty much every issue except for maybe gun control and I like jewelry and he doesn't... I can always help him change his opinion on that ;)-
As time went on we'd keep on writing. At least a letter a day and a lot of the time there would be more than one. We got to know each other pretty well and I could easily say that he became my best friend. He was just so easy to talk to and helped me get through the day. (I always looked forward to reading his letters and still do) I can honestly say that I'd be a different person if we never met because he was such a big part of my daily life. We even started going to voice chats and I even started calling him.
By then maybe a year had passed, he graduated from high school and I was starting my senior year. That's pretty much when I seriously started thinking of visiting him. I got a job baby-sitting my next door neighbor and saved up money. It wasn't quite enough and the pay wasn't quite enough so I got a job at the local Sonic. Within 3 months I had the money to go so I bought the tickets and arranged to stay with my mom's cousin who was nice enough to give me a ride over to Norway and stay for 4 days (and 5 nights). When I got to Sweden he called me and we talked for hours. I called him a bit too since it was so expensive. I had a great time talking to him. Just plain conversations as well as making plans for what we'd do.
Finally the day came to leave for Norway. I was in the greatest mood because I'd finally be th ere at the end of the day! It took us even longer to get there because we got lost in Lillestrom which is a suburb of Oslo. I won't ever forget that town. Lillestrom, it's like a maze! Some locals helped us get out of town. They said that they had a hard time finding their way and they live there (puts a perspective on the layout of the town). It was a long trip but we finally made it to Jevnaker (his town). He called us and gave us directions to his place which was pretty much across the road from the gas station we were at. We pulled around the corner and I saw him come out the door. At once I felt that I knew him so well. It was like old friends meeting who haven't seen each other for years except in this case we never met! ;) After that Inger, Tor, and I walked over to a Chinese Restaurant for dinner and then Tor and I went for a walk around the town.