Glacier and Waterfalls

This is from Thursday night--We're in Berrgen and I'll write about today--later--it's 10:30 pm (3:30 pm Texas time)
I tried to upload 4 pictures and they turned into computer cuss words, so I'll send em to Nikki and she can add them for me (Thanks N or B).

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No internet tonite, so I’m writing in another place to be dumped into the blog or e-mail when we get to Bergen Friday night.
We experienced the Brikstel Glacier today, hiked up to it and stood in the rain to enjoy its beauty. Lots of pictures. After the hike, we could both tell that it’s been a week since we’ve been to the gym.

We drove past snow fields with accumulated depths of 4-8 feet in various places. No point taking pictures, it was all WHITE---ALL WHITE EVERYWHERE. Every now and then a rock was sticking up ab ove the snow.

When we finally arrived at our hotel (the primitive one- no outside phone, no t.v., of course, no internet) we heard its story. There has been a building of various uses for hundreds of years. This is a seriously remote place (mountain top- wait til you see the pictures) that was a “pony express stop” in early years and has had several incarnations, the darkest of which was during WWII. The Nazi High Command used this place it was a hotel by then as their headquarters for Norway. (We’ve heard lots about the differences the coming of the Nazis made to this country This was a reward R & R place for valued soldiers who were to be rewarded. There is still a German bunker on the grounds where they could watch for whoever was coming. We went down in it and it was not much to see. Anyway the current hotel was built in the 50’s and is nice, but not elegant.

Tomorrow we’ll take a railroad up a mountain and go on yet another Fjord cruise. Our bus ferried across a Fjord today to get to the hotel. Our destination for tomorrow is Bergen.

Lots of shopping opportunities today--folks from our group bought dishes, Santas at a Christmas shop, other Christmas items, shirts, books, and reindeer hides. We haven’t bought much yet, Except for rain jackets because my Mickey Mouse jacket was sopping wet from all the rain at the glacier and other places today. The rain jackets will be nice even in Brownwood--they do say NORWAY on them. I take that back, the first day we were in Stockholm, Nick’s old camera died, so he found a camera store and bought a new Kodak. It works great. That’s all for tonite--I’ll post this tomorrow with pictures. E