Yup...100 Tall Ships have arrived & Geocaching took us to the most interesting places this last day in Bergen!!

Great start to the day... up at a lazy time.. brekky... relax... then off on our explore!  Found 10 geocaches over two hours.. Parks, Fountains, Churches and, better yet, little out of the way cool spots we might not have seen if not for the geocaching.

Oh yes... the Tall Ships!... EVERYWHERE in the harbor... meaning people everywhere checking them all out!  As I'm writing this in the evening, lots of people milling around, laughing, drinking, bands playing, folks just plain making lots of noise... I think it's gonna be a long night!!!! The temperature was warm all day, but, some cloud cover has moved in this evening and things see to be in at least the upper 70's.  Tonight will be the last night of having daylight well past 10:15... and the sky never really becoming dark enough to see the stars... can't say I will miss that...but I am happy I got to experience it!

So... lots of pictures... hope I don't bore you... but you see just a few of the gazillion I took... So glad digital is the way now... imagine having to wait and get the film developed and just hoping they turned out...!

Jerry stopped and is smelling the roses!!!

 Somebody has to keep those parks so beautiful... she was snipping dead flowers off with tiny little clippers...

 Cool little area and those are real outdoor xylophones you can play... we had fun... Jerry is signing a geocache we found in the area...

 Beautiful gardens abound...don't know why I get infatuated with taking closeups of flowers... but, you're stuck looking at them...heehee!

 This tree was huge and beautiful... reminded me of a Contorted Fig... like the Bowman's had years ago!!!

 Preschool kids out for some time in the park... think you can identify the preschoolers?

St Olav's... built in the 1100's by the Roman Catholics... became Lutheran during the Reformation...

 This was some of the awesome wall/street artwork on the way to one of the geocaches!

 The process... all done with a can of spray paint!

 Those are shoes glued to the wall....

 Jerry was talking this poor guys ear off... or wait, maybe that guy was talking Jerry's ear off????

Found a much better Fish Market thanks to Stacy S.... Love facebook and how you can get that info from someone who's been already!

Monk Fish

 My fingers I was hoping would give a frame of reference... alas not so much... but these puppies were humongous!

And... the ships....

 This tiny little boat would take preschooler/kinder kids out... what the heck???? in that bay with all those big ships clogging up everything?? What parent would say, yeah... you can go for a ride on that...  btw, no room for the parent to go along...

 Older kids got to make their own wooden boats with sails and then create a wind in the sail and have fun!

 Shall we say he had a birds-eye view?????

 Here's the band we know from the states... love them... L'Angelus, from Louisiana... Ended up they we were staying in our hotel... had a good long chat with them...!

Tomorrow.... France!