My Month in Norway - Day 7
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On Tuesday my new friend Terra got a wonderful invitation and was nice enough to include me on it as well.  Terra was here teaching a training class at BP.  One of her students had to run errands around the area, including going out to her mother-in-law's old home at the beach, so she kindly offered to let Terra and I come along and make a tour of it.  Her name was Edith Fugelli.  She took us by the residence where the King lives when he's in town.  Also to see the three giant swords that are stuck into the ground at a nearby fjord to honor the unification of Norway.  Then we went to her house, where we picked up her sweet dog and then on to the beach house. The beach house was over 100 years old and so neat.  It sits next to the oldest church in the area in a community called Orre.  We walked a short distance from the house to the beach and took a nice walk there.  It was a great trip!
  

A shot of the giant swords, which are a monument at Hafrsfjord to commemorate the unification of Norway.  If the picture was better you could see there are windsurfers in the water behind them.
Happy Dog Unloading the car
This is the old church in Orre.
 
Shots of the inside of Edith's mother's old home.  It was very nice and even though it was old and had been through many storms, it was as solid and as airtight as a brand new house.  Very impressive workmanship.
     
Headed to the beach...
The picture on the right is for my Geo-head friends.  They seem to like it when they can see layers in things like sand and rocks.
 
Edith explaining something to Terra about the geology of the area.  (I have many years of experience in tuning out geological explanations!)
       
Someone's cabin in the area.  I like the grass growing on the roof, you don't get that in Texas!
 
My new friends - Edith and Terra and Baer The lovely old church
   
Graves in the churchyard This picture looks back at Edith's mother-in-law's house from the church yard.  This stone monument in the foreground is in honor of that same poet I mentioned earlier. 
  
           

Edith translated it for me: "Five French seamen found their grave here when the sailship 'La Blanche Marguerite' sank on the 26th. of September 1853."