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Greetings from Lillehammer! If you have been following along the itinerary, you would know this is not our original destination for this evening! :) Here's the story... We woke up in Flam and had a nice breakfast at the hotel and enjoyed a quick walk around the little wharf. We knew we had a long drive ahead, so we hit the road to Geirangerfjord. The drive started out really nice- we took another ferry and the scenery along the Sofnedjord was lovely. Well, the further we drove, the snowier and snowier it got! We reached the point where we were supposed to turn to go to Geiranger, but the road was closed! More like the road didn't exist - there was at least 10 Feet of snow on the road! After trying to sort things out ... read more

Since we arrived home kind of late last night/this morning, I'm just now getting to the blog update :) We woke up to a light misty rain and cooler temps in Bergen yesterday morning. However, after a quick breakfast at the hotel, we headed out to do some exploring of Bergen. We stopped in a few shops, but it was mostly just tourist stuff, not the cool handmade art and pottery that we were looking for! Once the fog lifted a little bit, we were able to take a ride up to the top of Mount Floyen, which proved spectacular views of Bergen. The ride up was on a furnicular, which was kind of like a train on a 25 degree angle. It was pretty neat! At the top there were several paved trails so we ... read more

Good morning! Yes we are getting the comments - not sure why they don't show up (I tried accepting them but I don't know if that is working?) Wlysm! :)... read more

Too exhausted last night to go down to the lobby to post - so yesterday's entry comes this morning! Woke up very early this morning to catch our flight from Stockholm to Oslo! The walk to the train station this morning was beautiful so I grabbed a few last minute pictures. We landed in Oslo at 10:30am and were at the car rental counter by 11. And it turned out to be our lucky day because we were upgraded from an "economy" rental to a BMW complete with built in GPS! :) We programmed in our destination and hit the road. The drive took a little longer than we thought - we didn't even make it to Preikestolen Hotel until after 8. But, the drive here was beautiful! We passed numerous lakes, mountains, went through at ... read more

Hello from Stockholm! We arrived in Sweden around 12:30pm local time. Both of us were able to get about 2 1/2 hours combined on the flights over here, so we were ready to roll once we arrived at our hotel (thanks to Kelly's awesome navigation skills!) ;) After checking into our Nordic-Viking themed hotel (not gonna lie it's a little creepy but it was highly recommended!) we ventured out to explore Gamla Stan, or "old town" Stockholm. After stopping for a quick lunch (salmon sandwiches) and the best chai latte Kelly has ever had in her life, we walked to the Kungstradgarden, which was lined with cherry blossom trees. We walked along the harbor a bit (although Stockholm is on one of several islands so we will see more harbor tomorrow). We did catch a glimpse ... read more