
Finally woke up and decided to see the area. We walked to an old church that was supposed to have graves from the middle ages. All we saw were graves from the 1800’s forward. They hide the old ones well. We saw the minister talking to a couple inside when we peeked in. At lunch, we saw that couple getting married on the Fjord plaza of our hotel. There were three weddings today. We saw two during our lunch. We walked to the twin waterfalls. We seemed a bit lost and asked a man how to get there. He pointed us on a path that ended up in someone’s backyard. We went back and got directions from a woman who gave us better directions. She also told us to take the path to the right after we crossed the bridge because the path on the left was the steepest path. Unfortunately, she forgot that the easy path started before the bridge so we walked up the steep path and down the easy path. Oh well. After this 2 hour walk, we decided to take a walk up the higher mountain to look at the Monksteps. These were built in the 13th century by Opedal monks who lived on the lower side of the mountain for a path up to the hunting plateau. We walked, and walked and walked until we found a place that said we had hiked up to 640 meters above sea level. We found only small stones on a side path that some Norwegian people seemed to agree were the Monksteps. Norm was exhausted and had to walk back. On the way back, Cindy decided to take side trails down. After taking two, Norm decided to join her on the next one. Unfortunately, this path never rejoined the main trail. It simply went deeper into the woods and headed toward the waterfalls that we hiked to in the morning. We walked for what seemed like forever. We finally ended up in a farmer’s orchard and walked around the side and eventually made it back to the hotel. Once in the hotel, we found a photo of the Monksteps and realized that we had not seen them. Five hours of walking and we never saw them. The person at reception told us we were less than 100 meters from the steps. Bummer! Cindy started talking to a gentleman that worked at the hotel about all the walking and how sad she was that the jacuzzi closed already at 7pm. He was so nice and had the pool area unlocked special for us. The warm bubblies felt good before going to dinner.

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