Saturday August 18th

11:26pm Sand, Norway
3:26pm Saskatoon Time

Today was a looong day. Im super tired, so im going to do today in point form.
-We had a great sleep at the hotel in Kristianson. Mom wasn’t feeling too well
-Went to a church in Christianson. Made of wood, and sooooo nice. LOVED the smell.
-Shelby and I sat on bench by a fountain while the rest shopped...and got a nice feeling of how stinking expensive Norway is.
-Headed to Sand where our relatives are.
-We soon realized that NorwaY is absolutely GORGEOUS. Gorgeous mountains and lots of lakes.
-A tunnel we were suppost to go through was closed, so we had to take a detour along narrow mountain roads. While we were waiting, dad made friends with the men behind us. Oh dad, the social butterfly.
-So many of the roofs of the houses were grass - some even had like trees and massive bushes growing. Shelby thought they were HIDEOUS.
-Dad gave us top10 reasons why it wouldn’t be a good idea to have a cow on your roof. We laughed for like 20minutes.
-Stopped at the WC and dad made friends with some german 20year olds
-Stopped in Rose…(I forget the name of the town. We saw a really old church, and in the midsummers of the 1500’s-1800‘s, the crucifix would sweat, and it would heal people. There used to be piles and piles of crutches left by those who were healed.
-Drove along teeny roads along a cliff looking down onto a river full of rapids, hoping we wouldn’t meet any cars coming the opposite way.
-Got to Sand and found Mo Laksegard. They live on a beautiful farm right on the river, with the mountains behind. I LOVED it.
-Bjorne (who is mom’s second cousin, and owns the farm) welcomed us. We met his parents Daniel and Borghild. Daniel is Besta’s cousin, and he is the funniest man I’ve ever met. First of all he thought mom was Besta, and couldn’t understand how her 3 girls were so young. HAHA. Then he would just talk and talk and talk nonstop, even though none of us had a clue what he was saying. Just like Besta he nods his head and goes-yayayaya. Borghild was telling us how when Seth was there, he followed Daniel around like a puppy.
-Bjorne put us in a super nice cabin, right by the pool for the first night.
-After we ate Borghild's delicious soup, we headed to bed. It was the first time we had wireless, so i stayed up pretty late talking to Shaun on msn :S