She is enjoying class so far and has made at least one new friend. The school's enrollment is growing to the point that they had to add another Reception (kindergarten) and Year 1 (first grade) class. There are 80 new students at the school, which is about a 20% increase over last year.
One thing we did do before school started was take Sidney to the Oil Museum in Stavanger. It is quite a nice museum and covers many aspects of oil production in the North Sea. There are lots of platform models, interactive displays and other activities for both adults and kids. Sidney particularly liked the escape chute, as you can see in the picture.
We are evaluating plans for this weekend, as the weather doesn't seem to want to make up its mind yet. Our current plan is to go down to Flekkefjord to ride the dressins. They are bicycles that are specially designed to ride on railway tracks. There is a 16 kilometer route that goes through 10 tunnels that has been set aside specifically for this, and it is supposed to be quite a little adventure. As long as it doesn't rain Saturday, that is our plan. If it does rain, we will have to look at the alternative of going to Kristiansand to the zoo.
We have had a new visitor in the port next to us for about a week. It is the Bourbon Monsoon. The paint job looks nice, but it has a really funny looking bow.
Finally, there have been some really dramatic sunsets and sunrises lately. I thought you might enjoy seeing a few of them. As long-time readers of the blog may have noticed, there are several pictures of our little "island" from the same angle at different times of the day, with different lighting and weather. The island has a personality of its own, and the view of it will be one of the things we miss most from here. I plan on looking through all our pictures and putting together a print with the island as the subject so we can see it for many years to come.
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