Yesterday morning we were greeted by the sight of a new visitor to our port. The Stadiongracht is a general purpose cargo vessel registered in the Netherlands. She arrived yesterday to deliver eight large cylindrical objects (two can be seen on her deck in the picture.) The cylinders have "FPSO" painted on the end of them, so they will most likely be part of a Floating Production Storage and Offloading ship. Kimber's company's ship, Alvheim, is just such a vessel. It would be interesting if they were building one of these ships here to be able to see the construction process.
Speaking of construction, the pier project next door is coming along. They have just about finished pouring the new support structure within the old pier foundation. They are also erecting a new crane on the pier itself. I am beginning to think the crane is the national bird of Norway with all of them that I see around here!
And on another note, we helped Sidney out with a little project from school. Her school is trying to be certified as a "Green" school, so they are doing an "Eco-Week" next week. The kids were asked to make an outfit out of recycled materials, so we made Sidney a dress out of a map (which we seem to have tons of with all our traveling!) We still need to make her matching hat, but I think it is pretty cute. Unfortunately, it is not very functional, since she can't sit in it and has to shuffle when walking to keep from tearing it.
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