Tromsø in the spring

March 3, 2008. This is looking from the island of Tromsø towards the main land. On the mountain in the background there is a tram that takes people to the top, where there is a spectacular view of Tromsø, a restuarant and trails for hiking. Notice the snow. The roads are plowed but not salted. In parking lot areas the snow is piled up on the boarders and left. That is what can be seen in the left foregroung of the photo.
This was taken from the window of an elementary school. This shows a typical playground area. This is a basketball court-soccer field(but here it is called football). Notice the goals under the basketball standards. The houses in the background are typical housing for this area. The red one is an apartment building with two or three apartments on each floor and two or three floors in the building. A whole family will live in one of these apartments.
These next two photos were taken on Mar. 7, 2009 on a drive from our apartment to a location on the other side of the island. We drove the round about way on the shore road. This is looking accros the fjord towards another, larger island, Kvaløy (meaning whale island). The bridge in the background was built in 1971 and the large space in the middle is to allow ocean going ships to pass under it. We have some members who live on Kvaløy.
This was taken from almost the same location as the previous photo. It is of a group of school children on a field trip. They have a fire going and are roasting hot dogs and marshmellows while they search the shore of the fjord for sea life. Of course the boys are playing as much as they are doing supervised activities.
Every Friday evening we have the church open for college age members to bring their friends over to chill out, play games and find out that you can have good clean fun with out drinking and smoking. The missionaries usually come and meet any members of other faiths. From left to right: Elder Welch, Elder Watts, Åse Svendsen, who is studing astro-
physics at the University of Tromsø, Viliyana Anatasova, who is from Bulgaria and working in Tromsø, Lill Kristoffersen, and Elder Humphrey. This was a mean game of Scrabble.