Norwegian Emigrant Museum (Sunday, Day 4)

We're going to the Norwegian Emigrant Museum between 1 and 4, when it's open, with Jahn Frydenlund and Laila Egeberg. It was a nice museum, with a church brought over from Minnesota, and several cabins and other farm buildings brought over from America. They even had an old Model-A Ford from Iowa. They have a half-size statue of the Mormon Handcart Pioneers statue that is from the life-size statue in the LDS Church Museum in my hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah. As I was looking at the statue, I caught for the first time that it had a Dutch oven pot hanging from underneath the handcart. I pointed it out to Randi who got a kick out of it, since my mother had made us a delicious chicken with potatoes, carrots, and onions dinner made in a pit we dug in our backyard, using the exact same Dutch oven pot. :)

We stopped by Randi's twin brother, Kåre's home, and visited and had dinner with him, his wife Eva, and their daughter Marion. She's grown up quite a bit since I saw her last three years ago. She's now 6 and about to start school. She's still quite shy of me, and gave me a cute ostrich craft as a gift. When we took photos just before leaving, she actually held my hand during one of the photos. :)

We taught Jahn how to play Phase 10 card game, which he won! They taught me how to play "Gris" ("Pig" or called "Spoons" in America.) Norwegians play the game placing their thumb on the edge of the table indicating that they have the five cards of one suit, and everyone else must place their thumb on the edge of the table. The last person to do so gets a letter of "G-R-I-S", and the first to get "GRIS" is the "loser".