Stavanger

It's Tuesday morning here, and we spent most of yesterday on the cobbled, narrow streets of old town Stavanger on Norway's southwest coast, hard by the North Sea. We wandered the wharf area among the shops, Connor, Jim and I toured the Norge Oil Museum that explains everything you as a lay person would want to know about North Sea oil exploration and drilling, and then wandered some more and met up with the womenfolk.

Today we're heading out to see a monument where three kings came together in long ago times to unite Norway under one king, to visit a recreation of an Iron Age viking farm and then to have a picnic on a beach on the North Sea. Tonight we're hoping to see a showing of Klodnes Kom -- War of the Worlds, hopefully in Norwegian.

Tomorrow we start the trip back to Colorado, with a long day driving through the mountains to Kongsberg over near Oslo, and Thursday we cross the Oslofjorden on a ferry boat and drive back through Sarpsborg (and see more cousins, perhaps) to Göteburg, Sweden, to catch our planes on Friday through Copenhagen and Chicago to Denver.