Bergen. Every time I hear the name of the town, I imagine in sung like “Berwyn” in the Monster Trux song. If that means little to you, sorry, deal with it.

The day started with a shower in the bizarre curtainless bathroom, which bathroom also features a see-through door. Not a fan, though that the bathroom also features a towel-warmer almost makes up for it.

Upon getting ready to leave, my dad noticed my passport sitting on the desk, and suggested I put it away. I responded, “Oh yeah, right, thanks,” or something like that. Then I noticed my dad’s hearing aide (which I’m still rather sure is a prop/excuse to ignore people) and I suggested he put it on. He responded, “I said you should put your passport away.” Maybe it’s not a prop after all.

Our tour included some churches, as tours do, but one of them featured a pretty cool organ WHICH WAS ACTUALLY BEING PLAYED. Organs are cool. (If you agree, you might check out The Lioness by Songs: Ohia.) Also, it had some cool stained glass.

We got a lot more nice views, toured a Hanseatic Museum, and I did laundry.  I actually had a dude do my laundry for me, which is awesome and lazy, but it was only acouple bucks extra, so I figured what the heck?  I’ve been doubling up days for my undergarments, just FYI, but no more!  We also took a weird little train up to the top of a nice lookout and were able to see all the little sites from the so-called bird’s eye view that the kids are all raving about.

Only saw one v40.

Also went to a Grieg museum, who was a turn of the (last) century Norwegian composer.  He was a big deal right around when Norway became free from Swedish rule, and is credited for helping inspire a real Norwegian identity.  It’s funny that Norway has a history longer than most Americans can imagine, but it’s been dominated by other countries for 400 of the last 500 years.  In fact, they refer to the 400 years of Swedish/Danish rule as something like a very heavy nap deep sleep or something, and around 1907, I think, they woke up/regained their independence.  Point being, they had to work to create a strong national identity, and Grieg was one of the dudes that helped it happen.

Here are the pictures.  We had relatively nice weather, though we did get rained on a bit.  NBD.  Actually, yesterday was the first day in 60 it hadn’t rained, so that we had a mostly beautiful day is something to be grateful for.