Velkommen til Skogfjorden

On Friday (yesterday) we continued on without the dogs to Bemidji, MN, another 220 or so miles. Stian wasn't quite as good in the car, but who can blame him? I sat in the back seat and sang to him and that seemed to make him happy.



We are in Bemidji for Nordlandslaget, which is an organization for descendants of people from Northern Norway. They are having their annual meetings here in Bemidji this year. Kris used to go to the meetings every year growing up, but this is the first time that I've ever been.

One of the activities this year for Nordlandslaget was to go visit Skogfjorden . Skogfjorden is where Kris and I met, and most of you already know, is a Norwegian language camp. Skogfjorden is a very special place to both Kris and me, and it is always fun to go visit, and it was so much fun to take Stian there. Of course he won't remember the visit, but hopefully someday we will send Stian to camp at Skogfjorden.



Here's Kris's dad chatting with Linda and Kjersti outside of Valhall. It was a pleasant surprise to run into Kjersti, we weren't expecting her to be working there this summer. And we had to run up to Linda's house to visit with her.




Here's Stian and me out in front of Utgard, that's Uncle Brad making faces at Stian, and of course Auntie Karin and Cousin Klebo chatting with a couple of the videregaaene (campers who are there for 4 weeks studying Norwegian and get a full year's worth of high school language credit).





Kris and Stian by the map.



The last time we were at Skogfjorden was the summer of 2003, and since then they have built barn. So I wanted to walk out there and see that.



The barn is quite neat. Kris has been wanting to build a garage out in our backyard, I told him he could if he built one that looks something like this.



They put the barn out by the old immigrant cabins. These are actual cabins immigrants from Norway lived in that were moved onto the Skogfjorden site.



It's always fun to visit Skogfjorden and always sad to leave again.

When we were done at Skogfjorden we came back to our hotel in Bemidji and settled in. Grandma helped me feed Stian his dinner by being his high chair for me. Yummy - carrots again!





Stian slept in his Pack 'n' Play last night and did really well. He was only up twice in the night, much better than I expected.