Since our friend Kristen is visiting from Arizona, we wanted to take her up to the Tyholt Tower, the highest point in the city, for lunch and some good views of the area. It was a crazy slippery day (make that week), which made for a fun hike up the hill. Grace and Isaac had barnehage this week, but Sam and Katie's school was out, so they came along with us for the pizza buffet. We also met our friend Petter at the top of the hill to join in the fun.
The week before Christmas, we saw a thaw followed by rain with temperatures hovering around 0 C, so everything was ultra slick. Made for difficult walking, but it looked even worse for the cars on the steep hills.
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| The hill up to the tower. The city had put down gravel late that morning, thank goodness. When I walked Grace and Isaac to school, the gravel tractors weren't out yet, and it was a not-so-pleasant exercise in physics to push them in the stroller up icy hills with zero traction. There were many not-so-graceful pirouettes involved. |
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| Sam, Kristen, and Katie taking in the views from the top of the tower. |
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| Our fair city |
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| The long building in the mid-foreground contains a huge water tank for an NTNU research laboratory. Folks here say the sea floor of the Trondheimsfjord is the most technologically advanced in the world because all sorts of research for NTNU and the Norwegian oil industry takes place there. |
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| Katie enjoying the pizza buffet with Kristen. |
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| An impressive view of the area (and Sam's shaggy hockey hair. We will cut it upon our return home to Texas. Haircuts here are expensive!) |
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| The ladies are checking out the ski jumps on the hill in the distance. |
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| After-pizza glow |
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| This is as high as the sun gets in the sky these days. The late-rising sun in the mornings (it starts to really get light around 10am) wreaks havoc with my internal clock. I no longer pop out of bed bright and early. It's like my body thinks I'm hibernating and needs to sleep until the spring sun comes out. |
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| Katie pretending to be sullen. |
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| Playing in the field on our walk home. Kristen and I played tag with them for a few minutes, but our endurance was no match for the young ones'. |
Regarding short days, it's interesting 'cause while visiting relatives in the summertime, folks seem to run on almost no sleep as if everybody's soaking up the extra sunlight. In my head they'd have to hibernate during the winter to store up for this. Seems like it's true!
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