Today was a MUCH better day for me. Yes, I’m still a little sick, but the cold sort of moved south. I feel a lot better today and had much more energy, so after we went to the top of the hotel tower, we decided to visit the Brygges Museum next door to the hotel. It was really interesting, with an exhibit about how Bergen came to exist from hundreds of years ago, and a temporary exhibit about photography in the American West and Norway from the 19th century.

I was very interested in the photo exhibit, as it turns out there was a lot of LDS history in it. I am not now, nor will I ever be LDS, but Bill’s younger daughter is a Mormon, as is her husband and their children. So it was interesting to see that. We also found a gift for her oldest child. I found him a toy ax. It turns out the axes were hand carved by one of the archaeologists who works at the museum. He’d made one for his child, and the manager got him to make more for their gift shop. We also got him some magnetic warrior dress up “dolls”. Now, to find something for the youngest kid.

After the museum, we went next door to the basilica, which is the oldest building in Bergen and the oldest church, obviously. We had to pay to go in, but it was worth it.

Then we had Thai food for lunch– again, very economical and tasty. I had chicken satay, and Bill had chicken pad paneng. We happened to be very close to the funicular, so we went up to see the best view of the city. Just wish it had been sunny. I enjoyed meeting the very chilled out goats up there.

After we went up the funicular, we came back down and had some beer at a club that had a decent beer selection and played dance music that was too young for me. And then we had a wonderful sushi dinner at Nama, which I will write about properly when I’m writing this story for real. Suffice to say, it was so much better than last night’s dinner. I praised the owner effusively as well as the adorable grill man, who let me know when he was cooking my Wagyu beef miniburger (it was an open kitchen).

It’s now about 8:30 PM, and we have an early date with a taxi to get us to the airport. I’ve already checked us in for our flight to Sweden.

Below are some of today’s photos… there are more I will share when I get home.