Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Gunnar Strikes Again

Good morning to you ladies, it's 2:15 pm here. The sky is clearing and we're getting some sunshine for the first time since arriving.I did my keynote speech this morning at 8:15, it seemed to go OK, I didn't run out of things to say ;). Guess that's no surprise to any of you.
Walked up to the old church on the hill, there's several graves with Lunde, so could be relatives of the family that farmed at Buxton, ND, Grandpa Al's mother's family.
A man was mowing in the cemetary and told me that "Lunde" is very common in Norway, though, so could be like being named Smith and they may not be any relation.
Interestingly, he did know that many families from this region did emmigrate to North Dakota, but someone told him some misinformation because he thought they stopped in ND for the mountains! Ha!
The church also has a old stone Celtic cross from about 1000 AD, was done near the water on the current site of the hotel, moved to the church about 100 years ago. So that's cool, dates back to the conversion of the Vikings. Wow.
Hardly slept at all last night, the jet lag seems worse now than ever, which is backwards, but I'm trying to stay up all day today so that I sleep tonight

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