Jon and Lynsey's Blog

Sorry it's been a couple days since we last posted but we've been busy exploring the beautiful country of Norway! Friday we spent the day exploring Oslo. We ate fresh caught shrimp right off of the boat at the towns harbor. Went to Viglands Park and saw some 200 naked sculptures of men and women ranging from babies all the way to grandparents. Pretty interesting but a little weird. We ate dinner on the dock of the harbor as the sun set behind the mountains then walked around for a bit more before boarding the night train to Bergen. Jon slept well but unfortunately I did not! The train ride from Oslo to Bergen is one of the most beautiful train rides in the world and we were only able to see the last hour of it and it was extremely beautiful. Once in Bergen we ran in to a random townie who told us he had a double room with private kitchen and bath for a lot less than what we would have paid for our other accomodations. We checked it out and were soon settled in. Once our bags were dropped we checked out the local fish market where we bought fresh salmon for dinner, hit up the grocery store for some groceries and booked our fjord trip for Sunday. We dropped off our groceries and fish and head to Mt. Ulkrin for a cable car ride to the top. Bergen is surrounded by 7 mountains and 7 fjords and this is the highest of them all. The day was perfect and you could see for ever in every direction. It was an amazing view. We did a little hiking before heading back down and back to our room. We made dinner and crashed earlier cause I was TIRED!! Sunday morning we were up bright and early to another beautiful Norweigan day to take our 5.5 hour ferry ride to the Sognefjorden to the north of Bergen. What a ride!! It was beautiful! We will be posting a lot of pics from the ride once we get back to Brno (along with all the other pics)! check out the tour we did at: http://www.fjord-tours.com/flam-railway/ From Flam we took the train back up and we can see why it is as famous a ride as it is! It was amazingly beautiful with waterfalls and rivers around every bend! It was a long but amazing day! We are going to poke around the town today and tonight and tomorrow we are heading either by ferry or bus to Stavanger for a night and then to Kristinsand for a day and then from there to Fredriskshaven, Denmark and then to Gotenborg. That is the tentative trip plan right now but hey, we have nothing holding us back except a return flight home sunday from Stockholm!! Until we write again, take care and keep us updated on whats going on back home!

A couple of notes:
I hope Grammy is doing alright and please keep me updated and Jenny adn Adam, congrats on the house. It looks great. Take care time is up!!

Lynsey and Jon

Just a quick hi to say we are alive! We are in Frankfurt enroute to Sweden and Norway. This keyboard sucks so stay tuned for more. Its bedtime because we have to get up in 5 hours! O the joys of traveling! Miss ya all!
Lynsey and Jon

It was a great weekend. It all started with a little roadtrip to see Dohr and his place in Milwaukee. We dropped our bags and headed to the Cheesecake Factory for a dinner that took a little longer than expected but was none the less very filling. From there it was down to North Ave with Dohr, Chris, Kelly, Lynsey and myself. We meet up with Heidi and her cousin and the Milwaukee bar scene was about to begin. We started at RC's where I did not have one drink, although by the time I wanted to and our waitress actually came back to us, we were headed out the door to BBC's. I ran in to two fellow Marines, one from mortars and another who I work with. I had two beers, Sunset Wheat of course and a free shot of Patron and no more because I was the DD tonight! Yes folks, me! Once last call was yelled we were out the door and on the way to Heidi's to drop them off and then headed back up to Dohrs. We catched pretty quick and slept like a rock all night. We were up somewhat earlier, said our goodbyes and headed to South Milwaukee to see Jeny. We paid our respects to her and her mother on the passing of Jeny's dad a few days earlier. You could see it was tough on them but they were holding up well. We got back on the road and headed for home because Jenny and Adam, Holly and Greg were all coming in to town for the evening. The girls went and tried on dresses and Lynsey said that Jenny looked so beautiful in the wedding dresses that it brought a tear to her eye several times. You're a lucky man Adam!! So Adam and I did the guy things and looked at electronics and big ass TV's and started making dinner for the girls. After a filling dinner, the cocktails were opened and the card games began. Barman showed up not to long after and not to long after that Greg was here. We had ourselves a nice lil crowd. We all piled in to Barman's Jimmy once the beer was gone and got a free ride downtown. After showing the Madison bar scene how to do it Whitewater style we headed to Ian's grabbed some pizza, called a van taxi and waited for our DD home. We saw a red Pontiac nail a Cherokee in the middle of Johnson and Frances and then watched as the Pontiac speed off down Frances trying to get away. The Jeep took off after him nearly hitting two people and then disappeared around the bend. We got our wonderful ride home, I tucked Greg in to bed and then passed out myself. Greg and Holly joined Lynsey and I in my bed Sunday morning before heading upstairs and making breakfast and packing up their belongings. We said our goodbyes for the next 6 months and they headed back home. We spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon cleaning, relaxing, packing and then went and saw Pirates 2 with my dad before calling it an early evening. All in all it was a great weekend spent with some great friends. Thanks everyone!! The pics our up from Saturday night too. Take care.

Jon and Lynsey