Saturday, July 7, 2007

We decided for this trip we would go all out on a trip to the beautiful Geiranger Fjord. In the past, I have taken a series of buses and ferries to get to Geiranger, but have always wanted to take the Norwegian Hurtigruten, which does a cruise up and down the Norwegian coast. They come to Alesund and spend the day going into the Geiranger Fjord and then return to Alesund. So we were able to board the ship, the MS Trollfjord, in Alesund on Saturday morning and return back to town early that evening. Lanie absolutely loved being on a big ship. They had a small children’s play area which was able to keep her occupied some of the time, and she did nap for a while in the afternoon. I enjoyed taking pictures with my new camera of all the beautiful sights. Lanie’s Mormor and Kikishell were great keeping Lanie occupied much of the time on board so I could play with my new toy. I’ll try to get a few pictures posted ASAP so everyone can get a small taste of what we saw.

We had beautiful weather for the trip, with the exception of some strong winds when we were returning into Alesund. It was so good that we went ahead and went right away because for the rest of the week, the weather wasn’t very good.