If you haven't already read the still incomplete post from JH regarding our summer vacation, you must go down a few posts and read it. Hopefully, he will get back to the keyboard and blog the rest of the story. For a while we were a bit tech challenged. Our laptop with most of our photos died. The motherboard is fried. We have sent the computer to an expert who is pulling off our photos...we hope. So we have been limping along with "only" one laptop and two desktops. In a household with three computer junkies this is a problem! We have a new laptop on order. It should be here in just a few days. It will have the three special Norwegian character vowels and also the Swedish vowels too!
Well...here are some of the photo highlights from my dad and Holly's trip to Norway. Read JH's story for the real scoop. I will provide captions for the photos below.
My dad and Holly in Norway. I thought my dad would never get on a plane for Europe.
A view of Akershus castle from the Olso fjord front near city hall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akershus
The royal yacht anchored in the fjord off of the royal farm.
The waterfront near some of the many great museums in Oslo.
A traditional wooden boat tied and anchored along the coast.
The amazing fountain at Frogner Park's park within a park Vigeland Park.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigeland_Sculpture_Park
Monolith in the park.
Resting on history.
Climbing up to the monolith above the rose gardens.
Me and NK. Oh, sorry no, another Vigeland sculpture. This is my favorite. Anyone visiting my office for the last 10 years saw a photo of this sculpture.
During the visit from the Mitchell-Villagers there was an eclipse. This is JH rigging-up a projector to see the eclipse on the ceiling. Sometimes being married to a rocket scientist has advantages.
The eclipse!
My favorite fisherman along the fjord above the Arctic Circle. This is along the fjord in front of my in-laws house.
What is the catch of the day NK?
Still fishing.
The bridge over the maelstrom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malstrom
The thinker.
Yum - blueberries!
The fishermen. They had a good catch. There weren't any pesky seals.
NK and his grandfathers.
The daily catch.
The skerries in the fjord.
Looking down at Bodø from a nearby mountain top.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bod%C3%B8
Stripes and plaids. Oh NK!
The coastal steamer steaming North towards the North Cape.
Fire!
The catch of the day.
Hanging out on the veranda.
The ten hour train ride down the coast and over the mountains.
The guys went on a hike with friends to a summit near Beitostolen. My girlfriend and I went for a walk in the mountains along a ridge in a high valley. Nothing as spectacular as the terrain where the guys went.
Norway is so beautiful. Even when I curse this place it still amazes me with the beauty.
Here are some of the peaks that stay snowy all year. Some of these might be glaciers...I can't remember. This is not too far from the continental divide and about an hour from a fjord that cuts way into the center of Norway from the west coast.
Our friends have a cabin in this area. It is such a wonderful spot...just about 2 hours from our house in the higher terrain.
This is a small hotel that has been located on this mountain lake for over a hundred years. There is a boat the ferries people across the lake. I would like to take it next summer and then hike a few days around the high terrain. It looks like moonscape in some of this area. Just rocks, goats, some sami's and of course other hikers.
On of the many mountain lakes in the area. This is a high area, above the tree line.
My little bear hiking along.
Lunch with a view.
NK and his school chum.
This is NK jumping from rock to rock.
This is NK after he missed a rock and fell in a mud pit.
NK at the bottom of the bobsled run. Hit the brake!
JH after the hike. Enjoying the evening sun. 
