After eating some yummy breakfast and cleaning our cabin, we headed into the Rauma Valley which is beautiful!
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| In our quest to find a waterfall, Google maps led us off road onto a hiking trail. Yes, we did drive through that narrow underpass. Yes, we did turn around. |
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| Vermafossen, the waterfall we'd been intending to drive to. We contented ourselves with seeing it from a distance. |
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| Kylling Bridge |
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| Megan, Matthew, Me and U |
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| The arch fits U's head perfectly! |
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| Matthew and U with Kylling Bridge which was used in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning. |
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| Our next stop was Slettafossen which is a huge waterfall. This is just a little portion of it. |
We stopped for a bit in Lom. It reminds us a bit of a ski resort town in Colorado.
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| We enjoyed some pasteries from Bakeriet I Lom. Delicious! |
We then went to visit the stave church which was super cool. It was built in 1150 AD, is the 2nd oldest and the 2nd biggest stave church in Norway. It was expanded twice in the 1600s. The church is still in use today.
A sampling of the artwork in the church.
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| The front of the church with the altar. |
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| Up high someone wrote the equivalent of "I was here." |
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| Dragon |
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| Cool chandelier |
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| Lom flag. (Lom used to be spelled Lomb.) There is a paddle on the flag as that is a symbol of the region. It is quite dry and so people would use paddles to water their crops from the river. |
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| Another chandelier. |
Some photos from outside the church.
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| Matthew, Me and Megan |
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| See the dragons on the roof? |
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| U, Matthew, Me, Megan |
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| Cemetery adjacent to the church. |
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| Megan with the church. |
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| Matthew, Megan and Me crossing the river. |
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| Bridge over the river. |
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| U, Megan, Matthew and Me on a small beach. |
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| U and Me with the Lom Stave Church behind us. |
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| Lom Stave Church |
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| Megan drew this nice dragon head. |
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| Matthew drew a bunch of stuff. |
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| Their drawings |
We drove on the Sognefjellet Scenic Route for a bit. It was quite scenic :) It started out lush and green in Lom and then became quite rugged and cold.
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| Nice monument we saw on our drive. |
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| Waterfall |
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| This is a two lane road. Many of the roads in Norway are quite narrow! (Me quote: The roads look like they can comfortably fit 1.5 cars across....) |
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| Snow! |
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| Memorial markers for six men who died crossing this while trying to get food for their community. |
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| Plaque about the incident. |
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| There was a lot of snow as well as a frozen lake up here. |
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| There were also skiers. |
It was pretty. And cold.
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| U and Me at the high point on the Sognefjellet. |
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| Sheep we saw as we headed back towards Lom. |
Photos of the views of the valleys and mountains on the Sognefjellet. It is really beautiful!
Three pictures of U and Me at the same location looking in different directions. It really is incredible!
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| So much beauty! |
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| U and Me |
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| We ate dinner that we picked up at the bakery in Lom while we charged the car. |
We arrived at the Hotel Videseter. We had a deluxe room which was super nice.
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| Our bathroom had two parts, one with a shower and sink and the other with a toilet and sink. And the floors were heated! |
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| View from our room. Amazing! |
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| Megan and Matthew on the couches. Their beds are right in front of the picture windows. |
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| Me |
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| Nice little storage area. |
There were some nice paintings of trolls in the hotel.
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| U and Me played some table shuffleboard in the game room. Me won: she got 7 points in one round! |
U and Me walked out to Videfossen, the waterfall that is right by the hotel.
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| Me with a local troll. |
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| Me taking in the view from the lounge. Norwegians might say it is trolsk, which means magical, mystical or enchanted. |
We spoke with a lady who works at the hotel who gave us some good ideas for hikes in the area.
U's Step Count: 8347
