Norway,or as I said all day today, "OMG!"

So I'm not going to post my pictures on this post cuz I took so many? I have to go through them all and figure which is / are the best pictures of: waterfalls, mountains, rushing rivers quaint 500 year old houses, etc., etc.

Brett has been a wonderful travel partner, with one minor exception. We have been staying in some really nice hotels, some would say Four Star! They are clean, great water pressure for long, hot showers, nice linens in the bathrooms and on the bed, and comfortable beds. Well kinda comfortable beds. Well not really comfortable at all! You see the beds consist of a king size base with two sleeping mattresses on top. The sleeping mattresses are a bit smaller than twin beds. So in essence my twenty-eight year old son, who has been on his own since graduating from high school is "sleeping with his father! :). Each day when we check in to our hotel he holds his comments until we have seen the room. Last night we had great, completely separate beds, with end tables and a center table. That was the best room of the trek. Tonight he will be sleeping under a king size canopy bed on one of the two dreaded "sleeping pads"! Sorry Sport.

As for the trip here, impossible to describe so I won't, will let the pictures do the talking. The last leg of the trip was on The Flam Rail. The cars were nineteenth century with wood interiors and two sets of two person seats in each row. Other than the canopy, king size bed with sleeping mats our room is super, a living room, a table and four chairs dining room AND a balcony!

After we checked in we rented a couple of eight sped bikes and took a 70 Km. bike ride up through the road that runs parallel to the train route. What a workout, best in years! Ok, so it was really only twenty or so Kms, it was still up mountain roads. Two reasons it wasn't a 70km. Ride. The first was we only had two hours before we had to turn the bikes in And if we would have done a much longer ride we would have shipped home in a box! Brett, on the other hand, never left his pedals the entire ride. I wanted to make the ride last so on the steeper hills I allowed the bike a rest and walked it up.

All for now. Will be posting two entries soon. The first will be a more detail report on Stockholm and a pictures post on the ride from Oslo to Flam. By the way, Happy 4th of July. Like Brett said tonight, being out of country on the 4th really makes you appreciate the good ol USA!