Last weekend, while Deanna was here, we visited Oslo. Here we are in the Viking museum. That huge ship was actually buried, filled with food and supplies, for the powerful woman to use while crossing over to the next world. The ship was actually a pleasure craft!
These musicians (the ones in the back are actually playing) were performing in front of the folk museum. We aren't sure, but they may be Hardanger fiddles. They are violins with extra strings behind the strings that are played. The extra strings are tuned to provide some wonderful harmonics.Deanna has turned all the pictures from both of our cameras right-side-up and more or less sorted them in time order. The Oslo albums aren't linked to a map, like Bergen's was. The first part is from the Sognefjord in a Nutshell tour that Ed and Deanna took to get to Oslo. After that are museums and scenes from Oslo.
People in the album include Mike, the instructor for WesternGeco's Yellow Belt training (Lean process improvement training), who shared Saturday with us at several Oslo museums. Aung San Suu Kyi is also featured in her album. That would be from the Nobel Peace Prize museum, since she was awarded that prize in 1991. She has been under house arrest in Myanmar (Burma) for over 13 years, and her latest sentence was about to expire, but there was an incident with an American swimming to her compound. So she was taken to prison. It looks as if she will be kept imprisoned even longer.
Time is flying! Ed and I celebrated our 37th anniversary this weekend with a jazz cruise on the Statsraad Lemkuhl. It was really fine. The skies were clear and the wind went somewhere else. There were about 300 people on board. There was all the shrimp and herring you could eat. You could also buy beer and wine. The trip was 5 hours, under motor power with sails furled. We got back after 10:30 pm, just in time to watch the sunset at 11 pm. I can't wait for midsummer. We'll watch sunset as we get up in the morning (okay, maybe I'm exaggerating.)
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