Arizona in Norway



A Grandmother's first love isn't really the cat, or other family pet...it's the grandkids when they come to visit.  

 Sightseeing, museums, and food are just the beginning
Yea!  they are here.

almost all safe and sound....Caiden was missing his suitcase....a long story...found on the day they left to go home.

Juvy's birthday dinner.  Ryan's family, elder Holyoak and  Sobotoka, Inger-Elisabeth, and Juvy.

Playing ping pong in the chapel on the infamous Frelserensplanen board painted by Elder Miller.

Here we are at the Tromsø museum.




Britt - don't eat the snow!




He found an icicle.


Someone left a big handprint in the snow.

An old boat that could hold them all.





Bottlenose Whale skeleton.


the polar bear...king of the arctic north

this tortoise was found off shore just north of tromsø and now resides in the university museum



Gulls and puffins are among the few birds that thrive in the northern cold climate.


sami life and culture is a major influence in northern Norway


these ships are found in many of the old churches in Norway.  Given to the church by sailors for a blessing while out to sea.


Sami inscriptions in a rock

old church organ

Fun times at Polaria aquarium.





Priceless sums up our feelings in having some of our family visit us.





A starfish in the bay by the polaria museum.

Ryan fell in love with a new friend.

Viking hat fun at the tourist shop in town.


We think they would have made for some wonderful vikings

A dinner of whale burgers and fries.

Tromsø at night from bottom of Fjellheisen

Town from middle of ride up the Fjellheisen

Tromsø at night from on top of Fjellheisen

Fjellheisen lodge and restaurant


Big bright moon - cold faces, just a little windy and stormy on top that night.



 on our way back down after dinner.
Camden carried the pineapple around tromsø almost all week...anyone 'Psych'ed about that?

excited about a road trip

snow almost hid the sign to point the way to the fjellheisen

The Polar museum


Roald Amundsen house

Polar Museum is a tribute to early explorers and to Arctic adventures of Roald Amundsen

What life would have been like above the arctic circle long ago.



artic fox







musk ox once thrived in northern Norway but is now almost extinct







Interesting place.


Sea Explorer statue in the Torv.

 Rocket -our favorite reindeer hotdog place


These boys loved the hot dogs - the girls loved the hot chocolate.





family bonding with a new found friend

Ryan said this troll reminded him of the one we had at home from Dad's first mission.

Lunch at Rocket.




A visit to Blåst- the glass blowing shop.






Excited young men outside our apartment, anxious for the next adventure



Our visit to Polaria...Do you want to know a secret?



Seal pool at Polaria.  Need to be there at 12:30 or 3:30 to see the show and feeding of the seals


more reindeer hot dogs.  The boys couldn't get enough of them...a favortie treat.



native son of Tromsø who assisted Amundsen on his expeditions to the arctic.  His ship is stored in a glass house just behind



Arctic explorer.

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