A Norwegian ward temple trip is an event. We flew to Stockholm with a large group of ward members for the second of two weeks that were "our weeks" for 2012 at the temple. We arrived late on Monday afternoon and checked in at the guesthouse.
The facility is a large rooming house with many apartments and dorm rooms.
Our room was cozy but well equipted with a full kitchen. We just had to buy the food.
In the evening the people gathered to sing songs or play games.
Shanna was part of a Chilean version of Phase 10 that lasted long into the night.
The people who stay in the dorms and those who want to make a group meal get to use the big kitchen that is adjacent to the lounge / dining area. You get you own refrigerator and storage area.
The Stockholm Temple was dedicated in 1985. It is not a large temple by any means but it has the capability to run simultaneous sessions in different languages. It is lovely and very peaceful inside and outside.
It was considerably cooler in Stockholm than in Bergen as we snapped this picture on the way back from an evening walk.
This is the name of the little suburb where the temple is located. We departed on Thursday just before noon so we could make our 2:40 flight.
Swedish colors! We had the train to ourselves most of the way.
At Stockholm Central Station we connected with the airport bus and made our way through the city and on to the motorway another 45 minutes to Arland airport and our flight home.
Once home we had one day to get ready for a road trip to Stake Conference. This was to be the first stake conference in the history of our brand new Drammen Stake. We washed, packed, and switched the tires from summer tires to our winter mud and snow tires.
Most of the waterfalls are just trickles this time of year but this one looked big still. On closer inspection we noticed that it was totally frozen! Cool, I mean cold! The drive to Drammen is about seven and one-half hours.
Hard to see with these out the window shots but really it was frozen.
Stake conference is all about meetings. This was taken at the Saturday evening general meeting. The youth choir sang a beautiful original composition by one of our Bergen Ward members.
Ane-Rebekka was one of our passengers and was a speaker at the conference. She is a medical student here. We stayed in Drammen and as soon as we could get away we started the trek back home.
We let the Tom-Tom GPS system plan our route and it threw in this short cut over the mountains. We were in snow for the first couple of hours of the trip. I am glad I had the snow tires on the V-dub.
However, once we rejoined the regular highway we fell into line behind Brother Gjevik and the other Bergen Ward caravan. No more snow, just cold and dry.
Always great to be back home. The fall nights are starting earlier and earlier. We are back in our scarves and wool coats. This is our view off the deck.
