Norway

Norway was absolutely beautiful. It's a perfect place for nature lovers. Although it rained the WHOLE trip, we saw some amazing scenery and had a great time visiting with Kathy and Dave.

Bergen, Fisherman's Market

On our ride up the funicular to the look out

cold, rainy and windy at the look out

our little viking

We took an over night ferry (on very stormy waters) to Alesund to go to the food festival (found on joobili.com), but when we got there it was pouring rain and the food festival had ended the day before so instead of sticking around to do nothing, since everything was closed on Sundays we made our way to our next destination. Hellesylt.

We stayed in a cabin a little outside of town. There were lots of puddles for Scarlett to jump in

Our cabin with the awesome grass roofs and waterfalls surrounding us in every direction

The next day we took a ferry ride through Geirangerfjord. I wish these pictures would do it justice. There are waterfalls everywhere!!

Once in Geiranger we took a hike up to an old converted barn on the mountain for lunch. We are all drentched

View from outside our room. Hellesylt

The next day was a travel day with a series of buses and ferries so that we could get to Sogndal which was next to Haflso to visit the Hillestad family farm. Dave's Grandmother was born here

Hafslo

On to Flam where we saw the sun for the first time. We took another ferry through the narrow fjord

and then the famous flam railway on the way back to Bergen

along the railway

Back in Bergen. Jared made a quick trip to London and while he was gone we visited the aquirium

and did a little more shopping. this is as close as scarlett would get to the troll. Trolls are everywhere! I guess they are the link between human beings and human nature, weird.

On our way home we had a night stop over in Oslo so we went into the city to check things out. Scarlett did great the whole trip until this moment when she decided she was done. Time to go home

hehe. Oslo airport

Exhausted family

We had a great time but we are happy to be home. Thanks Kathy and Dave we would not have been able to do the trip without you. Did I mention how expensive Norway is? Be warned...