Vikings of Fargo!

The program was meant to begin at Americas Crystal sugar Company but instead we went to Northern Crop Institute. The the director Brian Sorenson with some colleges met us in the in the entrance for the day decorated with the Swedish and the American flag. the NCI (Northern Crop Institute) invites people from the whole world to learn and discuss methods to get crops to higher qualities to please customer demands.After that we visited Hjemkomst Center, a museum with Norwegian stavchurch like the one in Minot and a Viking boat "hjemkomst" that was built during eight years and thereafter crossed the Atlantic Ocean from America to Norway in the eighties. A remarkable achievement.house for a get together party with Rotarians. the Swedish flag was raised and the Swedish national anthem was sung before we split to our new host families.For lunch we visited a Moorehead Rotary meeting at moorehead Country Club and we gave them a "Taste of Sweden" with our presentation. The afternoon was spent at Bonanzaville, a outdoor and indoor museum with old buildings from late 1800 to early 1900 gathered from different places in the region and nicely put together in a historical town outside Fargo. A nice and interesting museum with lots of inheritance from history times.The day gave us warm and sunny weather but the evening brought rain. Wonder if our team had something with that to like in Dickinson? Anyhow, the rain was very very welcome from farmers around and specially those in west ND. We hope they got some of it too.