22/11/2009 Visit to the Syljuberget Farmsted

So Friday night Elin and I started an adventure to Lillehammer. It was a 7 hour bus ride that started at 9:30pm Friday night, we got to Lillehammer Skysstasjon at 4am Saturday morning. So there we pulled some benches together and sat down and watched 6 episodes of season 2 of The Office. We also played some cards, and we also played catch with a clementine until I through a very poor behind the back pass and it split open on the floor. At 9am Jan Amund and his wife Gunvor came to pick us up and took us to the North Farm property where my blood line came from and then to see the middle and south farms (south farm is where Jan lives). There are no buildings left on the North farm, the community of Mesnali owns it now and they have built a cancer rehab center there now. But on the South farm there were still some buildings left from the time period that my ancestors were there. They also invited us into their home, we shared some information that we both had about our familys, and it COULD be possible that we are somehow realated. Its too confusing to even try to explain right now though. And I am not sure if it even would work out anyway. But here are some fotos of the journey.







New houses built near the North Property farm.





There is a fantastic view from the North Farm property, I can see why someone would want to live there.





This is part of the north farm property, there are no buildings still here. On the other side of that road is a hospital which was also part of the North Farm. The Community of Mesnali now owns the north farm property.






This foto is taken from the North Farm properter looking towards the Middle Farm. As you can see now.. there are many more houses in this erea.





This house behind me was there when my ancestors were on these farms... this is at Jan`s farm which is on the South Farm.






Here is the Syljuberget family (minus their 16 year old daughter Stine) Jan Amund Syluberget, his son Ole Magnus (13 years), and Jan`s wife Gunvor.



Here are some other fotos from the Lillehammer excursion.





The midday sun in Lillehammer, it was almost noon when this foto was taken.





This is the ski jump used for the 94` Winter Olympics. There were people practicing on them, it was quite impressive to see people jump down those.





This is at the skysstasjon in Lillehammer, they hosted the 94` Winter Olympic games.





Train at the Lillehammer skysstasjon.