Monday, May 20

The baby of the family is growing up so fast!



We had a wonderful weekend.  The weather was better than expected and Sara, Matt and Evelyn came up and stayed Saturday and Sunday.  Evie is at that really cute stage where she is so curious and into everything, climbing and even starting to talk.  She is just the cats meow!!  We really miss them when they leave.
I am all packed and ready to leave on my adventure to Sweden.  Be sure to check the blog often over the next two weeks and as long as we have internet, I will attempt to post as often as I can.  I am so excited about what we have planned for the 13 days that we will be gone.  We will be in Stockholm for the first 4 days.  That is when the Elitloppet Race will be going on. (This is the business part of the trip for Trish and Chad) The rest of us will be exploring the sights in and around Stockholm.  Monday afternoon we fly to Ireland and do a whirl-wind tour visiting Cahir, Galway, Cong and Dublin.  On Thursday afternoon we fly to Oslo, Norway and we will be boarding a train early Friday for a tour called Norway in a Nutshell.  It includes a train ride, a cruise in the fjords, a bus and then another train taking us across the country from Oslo to Bergen.  We will be spending the night in Flam at a hostel and doing a 4 hour kayaking trip while we are there.  Brown goat cheese seems to be the major attraction at this stop.  I have always dreamed of seeing the fjords of Norway, so I am especially excited to not only cruise but also kayak through them.

This is Nanuk our travel bug.  Luke and I plan to place him in a cache in Flam, Norway.  Norway is one of 5 countries that have polar bears.  In Norway they are called Isbjorn or the Sea Bear.

Here is Nanuk at the Columbus Zoo.  His mission or goal is to visit as many zoos as possible on his journey from Norway back to his home zoo in Ohio.  We will be able to follow his travels on the Geocaching website.

 

Andy did not want to go on this trip, he is waiting for the one to Australia and New Zealand so he and Molly will be holding down the fort.  That means cutting the grass and feeding the fish and filling my bird feeders.  He has lined up several lunch dates just to keep from getting too bored.