2. It is okay to swim in your chonies (undies) if you are five or fifty.
3. People grocery shop everyday like its an impending St. Louis snowstorm and the grocery store runs out of bread, milk and eggs by 4 p.m.
4. In Norway it's no shirt no problem so Ben and Gary ate many meals - shirtless.
5. You can't buy beer after 8 pm M-F, 6 pm on Saturday and it isn't available for purchase on Sunday except at bars and cafés.
6. Softies are the best ice cream and the Esso gas station in Oystese had the best toppings.
7. Having the sun rise at 4 am and set at 10:30 pm is as great as I thought it would be.
8. Swimming in a fjord with lightly salted but essentially lake water is the best open swimming possible.
9. The Rima 1000 is pronounced Rema tussin not Rema one thousand.
10. Knute Rockne the greatest football coach ever was Norwegian, born in Voss and emigrated to the U.S and a statue has been erected in his honor in Voss. I did not get to see the statue, so I will need to come back to see it.
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