We are in Olso one day, today, so we had a nice buffet brunch in the Thon Hotel Rosenkrantz, then walked to the National Gallery of Art and got our culture on. They have a selection basically from 1500 on, with a few sculptures from ancient Greece and ancient Rome ( Read more... )

So last night for supper, I had two young men try to Mormonize me, which I had never had done to me before. It was interesting, like a date, a date with Jesus or Joseph Smith, maybe ( Read more... )

On Sunday, my sister, her busted foot, my husband and I were at House of Dynasty eating Chinese food. I had the bowl of rice up near my mouth and was using chopsticks instead of a fork, because I was instructed at an early age that if you're gonna eat Chinese food, doing it right includes chopsticks ( Read more... )

Also in innsbruck Austria:

Passed a plaque on the hillside on a side street, which detailed the history of the spot as being the site of bellmaking for several hundred years until 1864, when Joseph Georg Miller died, the last master bellmaker1. Mind you, they aren't making bells there so far as I could see, they just wanted us to remember that in ( Read more... )