Cruising Day 11!

06-13: Today, we had the typical day on board, having lunch and then playing cards. At 4:30p we went on our Atlantic Road excursion. Before we actually go to on the Atlantic Road, we had an interesting drive through the countryside. We stopped at a very old Stave church built in the 1600's. It is so interesting how they can make this whole building without using any nails or other items like that, just the wood. After that, we stopped at a local restaurant and had a delicious Norwegian dish of Klippfisk. The dish originates in Portugal, but is now a very popular and well-known dish in Norway. It was quite good with a red tomato sauce. I remember my mom doing over tomato over snapper in the oven. This, however, had small potatoes, cut up in it. Which really added a lot to the flavor. Bread was served with that and a little cracker type bread. For dessert, we had a flan with the little whipped cream on top. Next, it was to the Atlantic Road at last. It isn't quite like the pictures. The first part of the drive looked like the pictures with a road over boulders, long flat boulders and such. After that, it was more of a drive through the countryside. There were a lot of farmhouses with cattle, sheep, goats, and even a few horses. I even saw a deer at the edge of the forest. At this time, they are harvesting green silage. They cut it before it gets too tall, maybe two feet high and then bail it to ferment in plastic. This makes highly nutritious cattle feed for the harsh Nordic winter. We connected back with the ship in Molde. We watched part of a world cup game in our cabin. Then, we play cards and waited for the midnight game of Brazil vs Morocco on deck 9. By the time we got to bed, it was almost 2:30a. And the game was a tie!