Phoebe’s been taking an elective acting class during the second semester of sixth grade. She’s talked about almost nothing else for the past few months! The class performance was last night. Half the…

Dave left for Norway on January 29 and returned April 2. That’s a long trip! His work went well, but he was there by himself that whole time. The weekends were particularly lonely;…

After our impromptu December trip to Iceland, I knew the kids could handle international travel, but flying to Bergen is a much longer trip. We flew from Denver to Detroit, had a 3-hour…

Because of the time difference, we didn’t get to Bergen until Sunday afternoon. Here we are in the Amsterdam airport with our little plane to Norway in the background. As you surely noticed,…

Dave had stocked the apartment with Honey Nut Cheerios—name brand!—for us to eat for breakfast, since none of the rest of us like the yogurt and meusli he eats. After breakfast, we headed…

On Tuesday, Dave and I left the kids at the apartment watching Netflix and went for a 5-mile run, making a long loop around town. I was only able to keep up with…

Before we left Colorado, Dave suggested that we might take a day trip he took the first time he was in Norway. It sounded like fun, so we scheduled it for Wednesday. We…

By Phoebe On Thursday Mom and I got up and went down to a bakery just down the hill our apartment was on. We collected some cinnamon rolls for us and “an almond…

We wanted to check out a couple of museums on our last day, so we decided to get to VilVite, the Bergen Science Center, at opening time. It was a gray, drizzly day—the…

Our flight left Bergen at 6:15 am, so we left the apartment at 3:30. It’s a tiny airport, but we had to stand in line quite a while to pay to check our…