Bryllupsfest Part One

We have been quite busy these past two weeks!  It has been wonderful.  Months of planning and dealing with bureaucracies, the restaurant, the baker, families, friends, tourist stuff, worrying about the weather, have all come to pass.  I have a sense of mild depression since the last family members left that I know from past experience is just the energy-drop that occurs after completing any major project.  It is actually not a bad feeling.

Perhaps part of the mild depression arises from facing the next "project" -- blogging about the events of the past couple of weeks.  There are hundreds of photos and many stories to sift through and it is all a bit overwhelming right now.  So, just as the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step, I will simply start to tell the story.

As related in the last post, I had incorrectly entered July 3 in my calendar as the arrival date for Devon, Patrick and Piper ("DPP").  But notwithstanding my error, DPP were in good shape on July 2 evening.  They went to bed late and Piper kept them up half the night (babies do not deal with 7-hour time change well).  The next day, July 3, after a late breakfast, we faced a rainy, cool, day that was not the best for sight-seeing.

We decided to show DPP the main edifice of NTNU (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology) where Tove works and from where Patrick's great-grandfather graduated.  Both of Tove daughters went there, as did their husbands.

Inside the library

Patrick at NTNU

We drove around the area known as Bakklandet (http://www.trondheim.com/bakklandet/), then out to Lade and "Sponhuset" for waffles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lade,_Trondheim).  The rain stopped, but it was still quite gray.



Sponhuset





Bestemor Tove with Piper

The weather had been so crappy over the past two weeks that Tove and I were quite worried about the weather for Saturday, July 9, our bryllupsfest night.  The weather forecasters were not alleviating our fears.  At one point, the forecast had called for rain and temps in the mid 50s!  What we are learning this summer is that the weather is very unstable and very unpredictable.  Every day that week the forecast for Saturday changed substantially.  Yikes.  End of Part One.