Day One

God dag! The flight on Iceland Air was fantastic; the food not so good. We watched the sunset and rise all within the same hour, which was really cool. This time of year up here the sun barely goes below the horizon. We also saw glaciers and ice bergs over northern Canada and Greenland. We barely slept on the plane; a 5.5 hour flight.

Here is us before we get on the long flight:

Here is a shot Sara took out the window of the Icelandair:

The flight to Norway was 3 hours from Iceland. We slept a little and read a little. We've been up for nearly 32 hours. We were happy to be in Norway.

Here you can see how great we look after a 6 and 8 hour flight:

We met our bus driver right away and he took us to Hadlund Glassverks. We watched the master glass blowers; we even bought some cute green glass birds. Then it was back on the bus on the way to Lillehammer, which is one of the sites of the 1994 Winter Olympics. We saw the ski jumps and even got to see some people doing the jumps. Right now they are astro turf that they keep wet with sprinklers. Sara and Linda rode up the ski lift and took pictures. Virginia and Laura stayed on the ground where they thought it was safe.

Glassverk grounds:

Ski jump grounds:

We are now at our hotel Molla, where we can't get our pictures to load onto the hotel computer. The hotel is a old mill and so there is a river running right next to the building. Linda and Virginia can hear the babbling water when they open their window. We will be checking out the bar on the top floor, which is revolving. We hear you can see the northern lights from there. Good night.

Our hotel room, glad we don't mind sleeping close to eachother yickes:

Hotel Molla (the yellow building):

Video taken at dinner inside the hotel:

"Night" time in Norway: