We visited the Petroleum Museum when we came for our house hunting trip back in March. There are several other museums, however, so we decided to do a single day ticket, which allowed us entry into up to five of them for a single price. We started with the Stavanger Museum, which is kind of a catch-all museum. It has animal and human skeletons, taxidermy of various animals and birds, information and displays on Stavanger history, and a special exhibit on animal behavior. The last item was a bit odd, as it discussed homosexuality in the animal kingdom. We, um... learned more than we needed to know, and we will leave it at that. I was a bit surprised that as much influence as WWII had on Norway that there wasn't much information at all on it in this museum.
Our next museum was the shipping museum. Stavanger has had five major "industries". Religion, while not really an industry, was the major draw to Stavanger when it was initially founded around the cathedral around 1000. Herring became the next major industry in the 1800's, then sardines took over when the herring disappeared. Sardines then disappeared, and oil became the big thing in the late 1970's to the present. The shipping industry has played a big part in the other four. We actually saw a really cool picture of rigs being built in the 80's where our apartment is now.
We then headed to the canning museum, which is set up in, what else, but an old cannery! There were displays of all parts of the canning process, as well as the making of "fish balls". They still do demonstrations and make fish balls a couple of times a week. I got Sidney a can of sardines here, and she loved them. She also enjoyed playing with the little plastic sardines that are used to display the process (the ones in the picture are plastic, not real!)
Our final museum was the Children's Museum. This was obviously Sidney's favorite. In addition to having displays of toys and other items from childhood, there are displays and toys with which kids can play. It is basically a free-for-all for the kids, and most parents just take a seat and let their kids have the run of the place. Sidney is seen here in the "girl's room" exhibit.
Kimber did a really nice job on Sidney's hair yesterday for church. Sidney wanted a French braid with a red bow, and Kimber was able to oblige. Also included is a picture of Sidney from the previous Sunday before church, and a couple of other gratuitous Sidney pictures.
We had a more relaxing Sunday, which (after church) included a nice bike ride. We stopped at a 4-H facility which has a lot of farm animals for kids to look at and pet. Sidney wanted to ride the pony, but he needed a break and we didn't want to wait around. It is close by, so we will visit again soon. We also stopped and picked raspberries along the roadside. These plants were in the sun, so they are getting close to being done for the year, but we still got about a cup to bring home in addition to what we ate. They will go into a nice smoothie or milkshake soon.
Sunrise was spectacular this morning. I thought I might share it with you.
As we approach 500 hits since I began keeping track about a month ago, I am happy to see that friends and others from all over the world have viewed our blog. It makes us happy and gives us a connection to you all that we can physically see on our map. We are also happy to see that we have had hits from five continents. If you know anyone that may have any interest in what we are doing here, you are more than welcome to share the blog address with them. Specifically, if you know anyone in Australia or Antarctica, it would be really cool to have hits from all seven continents!
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