Final Days in Norway

Annika and I have been back in the states for a little less than two weeks now and I often look back at pictures from our time there.  There are a lot that I haven't posted here but there are a few left that I want to share.  The weekend before we left, we took a day trip to Osøyro where a former coworker of Kyle's lives.  We took the bus and strapped Annika into the child safety seat.  She looked so big!

Kyle met Hilde when he was teaching Norwegian at a charter school in Anchorage.  She is now a teacher in a small out outside of Os.  We had a wonderful time visiting her and Annika took to her right away.

We took a family walk around the lake but it was a little too windy and cold to be out there with Annika.  She was not a happy girl for a good portion of the walk.  We took a break inside to warm up before heading back to our building.  Annika is wearing a wool hat that was knit for her by a friend of Kyle's advisor, who we had dinner with that weekend. I'll have to show in another post the other gifts that she received.

Our baby girl was getting pretty big for her drawer.  She was starting to try and roll right out!  Annika loved sitting with her daddy.

On our last full day in Norway we walked up to campus to see the library where Kyle spends a lot of his time.

We stopped for a picture by the blue rock in the center of a popular shopping area in downtown Bergen.

Kyle is pointing to an Ibsen statue that is in front of the National Theater in Bergen.  We had such an amazing time in Norway.  It was very hard to leave and come back to Tacoma.  We could easily have stayed another month or two and been very happy.  We would have had to find another bed for Annika, though. :)  I can't wait for our next trip to Norway, whenever that may be!