Royal Watching in Bergen

After a productive morning taking care of our last bits of odds and ends in town, we've settled into the Thon Hotel next to the historic Bryggen district in Bergen to watch the Royal Swedish wedding of Princess Victoria to Daniel what's his face. I actually appreciate Daniel What's his face because if I were to describe his general look, it would be nerd-chic. He gives us single dudes hope. That's all I'm saying.

The television commentary is in Swedish, so we're doing our best to make up our own running English commentary. Here are a few gems from my Mom thus far:

• "That's what I call the arctic beehive" - describing the hairstyle of a more elderly member of a European royal family which, to be fair, had some pretty serious altitude.
• "That must be a friend or cousin, because he's gay. You can mark it down. Prince Edward is never getting married and after he dies his book is going to come out."
• "They're not going to show any closeups of any of them." - After seeing a number of more mature princesses of some strip who clearly had some work done.

So, that's what we're up to. It's a beautiful sunny day in Bergen, but it's blowing a bloody gale out. If the wind would ever let up, it would probably be about 70 degrees with blue skies. Unfortunately, it looks like 2 cruise ships made their way into Bergen this morning and the streets absolutely crawling with tourists. So, we're going to chill out in the hotel lobby, watch the rest of the wedding and hope that the hotel bar opens up soon, so we can grab a beer along the way.