Getting Out, Jet Lag, and The Midnight Sun

So far, the weather has been great! Bestemor lives pretty much in the downtown area of Trondheim, just by the river/fjord ports. We can walk to most places from her condominium. This is about 5-10 minute walk from her place. There are plenty of good cafes and interesting stores along the way.

Here we are on our way to one of the neighborhood bakeries for a mid-morning snack.... hmmm.

Trondheim is over 1000 years old and is experiencing some growth. In an effort to reduce traffic on some of these old streets that have houses over a hundred years old, the city is building underground roads and tunnels that will by-pass these neighborhoods. This is pretty much right across from Bestemor's. They have borrowed a large crane from Belgium and are transporting the old houses worth preserving to a safe location while they complete the road project. When it is completed, they will move these houses back. We'll have to come back in 3 years to see how it turned out :)

The kids are having a tougher time getting over jet-lag than I thought. They often fall asleep in the middle of the day and we stay up much too late at night. Of course, it also may have something to do with The Midnight Sun.

I took these pictures as we were driving back from the country - it was after 10pm.

The picture above shows a barely visible

church spire. These old churches are found

in almost every country village or town.

Some of them dating back till 1700's. This

picture was just snapped from the car. I am

sure I will have some better close ups later.

This is our little Rascal! Wide awake at 3:00am.

I snapped some pictures of outside for you to see. This is how light it remained at 3:00 am.

It is so hard

to keep track of time,

before I know it, it is

past midnight!

The Journey

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We made it! I can't believe that after 14 years, I am back here and that my kids will finaly see this country that I have been telling them all about.

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Check out the new sunglasses Bestemor had waiting for these two:

So, after sending Steve pictures from our trip.... I am informed that I am fired! This is the reason why I am fired (the two pictures I took from the trip itself):

Here are the kids Wednesday morning in Stockholm Sweeden:

And here they are on SAS flying from Chicago to Stockholm (a 9 hour flight):

Brutally absent, as it clearly has been pointed out to me, are pictures of the airplanes themselves, the wings, engines, view from the windows.... etc. It did not even occur to me to take those pictures and I realize I must repent before coming back home to face my aviation obsessed husband. :)

I must say how wholy impressed I was with the service of Scandinavian Airlines (SAS). The kids watched movies or played video games almost the whole flight. The flight attendants went above and beyond. We received two meals, one snack, the kids received toys and candy, at one point a stuart in a chef's uniform presented me with a tray of baby food and formula to chose from, they brought me a quilted baby sleeping bag, and throughout the night walked up and down the aisles offering water to everyone. Being that it was Scandinavian airline, the flight attendants did, however, mostly speak Norwegian or Swedish to the passangers and the kids got a feel for the environment they would soon be in.

Before The Journey

Before the BIG journey starts, the slow, bland drive to SLC must be traversed...

Somehow, the kids find a way to stay entertained! This is called: The Stinky Feet dance....

Awaiting us in SLC was a fun family party - to celebrate the July Birthdays

Baby time in the pool.

Don't they look quite comfortable?

And here: The Troublesome Trio

After a fun dip in the pool, it was time to do some celebrating. Here the baby get's her first taste of overly sweetened, refined, and artificial flavored, MEGA frosted, cup cakes.
But, ...Oh it was worth it!

YUMMIE!

Little cousin gets a chance to join the fun, since she will shortly turn one aswell...

We really had a good laugh watching them unabashed devour their cup cakes.

It was a perfect finish of the day and perfect lead up to the next day full of traveling!

July, August, and September... how the time flies :

Baby is born

Adelaide Pearl Price joined our family on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 - weighing 7 lb's 4 oz and measuring 19 inches long. What an amazing joy she brought us.

Elisa celebrated her 8th birthday just 3 days later. Grandpa Price came down to see baby Adelaide and to celebrate Elisa's birthday.










On July 24th, Elisa's birthday, the kids got to march in the parade with Steve for the pilot school. Olivia rode inside the plane going down mainstreet as he kids threw candy out - while me and baby enjoyed a quiet morning at home. Later Aunt Stephanie and Ethan came down to visit and everyone went to the movies later that night.

Two weeks later, Grandma Price and Aunt Danielle and Uncle Kyle came to visit. The kids continued to have swim practice 5 days a week and have a few more swim meets. Life was a little crazy, but great!


























Elisa's Birthday Party

In the end of August, Grandma, aunt Stephanie, Ashley and Ethan came for another visit. We managed to take a trip up to Navajo Lake while they were here.

Baptism
Because it was easier for all of us to travel up to SL than for the family to all travel down here, we decided to have Elisa's baptism and Adelaide's blessing up there where we could be close to family and friends.


It was great to be back. Elisa had a beautiful service - Katrina played a violin solo after the baptism.




After the baptism, we had a picnic at the park. Here Elisa is holding up her cake that the girls from Achievement Days made for her.














Blessing


Pictures in St. George
Since our weekend went by so fast, I felt I had really not had a good chance to take pictures of these very special occasions. So yesterday, after church, the kids and I drove to St. George to take some pictures on the temple grounds.