This is not a blog about Kay and Joe walking on a treadmill. That would be 1) Nordic Track and 2) terribly boring. Rather, this is a blog about Kay and Joe's vacation to the Nordic countries. Now we were calling this our Scandinavian vacation, but in reading about the part of the world that we will be visiting, we learned that technically, Scandinavia consists of only three countries: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. When you add the countries of Iceland and Finland, these countries are called the Nordic countries. The term Nordic is derived (roughly) from the Scandinavian languages and means "The North". In addition to the five Nordic countries, we will also be visiting four non-Nordic countries: Russia, Estonia, Poland, and Germany, as we journey on a Viking Ocean Cruise on the Baltic Sea. As in the past, we will be keeping a blog of our travels. So if you would like to follow our adventure, stay tuned to this blog. The fun starts on Wed., Aug. 30.