End of 1st day

We ate our delicious breakfast at the hotel this morning and are now sitting in the lobby, playing gin, waiting for our bags to arrive--they should be here any moment! We're so excited. I can't wait to change the clothes I've been wearing for 2 days!

Last night Cheryl and I went for a post-dinner walk after getting our 2nd wind, expecting to do a little window shopping and see some more of the city before we went back to the hotel and hit the sack. It was not quite dusk outside, still pretty light out, and yet all the stores were closed! Instantly I thought back to London where the bars close relatively early. I wondered at first if it was the same here. Then we looked at each other and realized it was 10:00 p.m.! It was so light out that it seemed like 5:00 in the evening. It also, then, justified all the people drinking in the outdoor sections of the bars and restaurants! It was getting chilly anyway, and since Cheryl and I were both wearing our flip flops we decided to just come back to the hotel and go to sleep. Dad told us this morning that it was pretty dark when he woke up in the middle of the night, around 12 or 12:30. Apparently the sun was only down for an hour! So cool! :D

Today we're going to some museums on the other side of the fjord and back to the castle we visited yesterday (one section of it was closed for a function, but today it will be open.)