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Before we left the lakeside stop on the way back to our hotel, three of these “troll ladies?” showed up screeching and attacking men.

It was also getting very foggy out which plays havoc with a flash.

Here’s a poor guy getting a dose of whatever these ladies were dishing out.

Can you say “crazy Norwegians?” This all has a lot to do with agriculture as I’m sure we’ll find out in coming days.

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After we left the play last night and got on our buses it’s hard to describe what happened next. I heard we were stopping for a surprise.

The surprise was going to be “night bathing” in a lake. Yeah, right!

But that’s exactly what happened. Some serious Viking souls got in the lake. I have pictures of them but deemed them inappropriate for a family website. Email me if you’d like a copy.

For those who didn’t do a little night bathing, we had some really good ham/bean soup and beers in the semi-darkness. This was about 11:30pm and it still wasn’t full dark yet.

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One of the locals working at Peer Gynt said we were very lucky to have such good weather for the play.

I guess it can rain and get even colder but the play still goes on.

One thing we got lucky with was a beautiful sunset.

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Here’s a little wider angle shot of the play we attended last night (Peer Gynt).

I don’t know what the official number is for people attending but I’d guess we had a couple thousand at least.

It’s held in an outdoor ampitheater on the bank of Lake Gala and includes a series of turf/grass covered huts which look like ones we saw a lot of on the way here.

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It’s Sunday morning now and I’m starting to wake up. The delegates are meeting already but since I’m not one, I’m taking a little longer to get going. Getting in at 2am requires more sleep on my part than what these hardy Vikings need I guess.

I thought I’d catch up with some more photos from yesterday. Before the play got started we had a little private lakeside reception.

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Here’s the lovely Scandic Hotel in Hamar. I just arrived and am getting ready to go to a play in the mountains. I know nothing about it except that it’s a 2 hour bus ride.

My plane was a mere 2 hours late and from what I’ve heard a lot of people were delayed getting here so I’m not alone. I’ll have a lot more coverage of the IFAJ 2006 Congress to come.

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For those of you who wondered what the recent security concerns would mean for travel overseas I thought I’d let you know how it’s going so far for my IFAJ trip. I flew out of St. Louis earlier today with absolutely no problems. It was a normal timeframe going through security.

I was a victim of the random bag check for fluids guy though. He looked at my dry bag and declared it good.

So I’m in Newark and waiting. We’re on a 1 hour delay due to the late arrival of the plane that’s got to take us to Oslo. So, after having gone through about 800 in/out box emails I’m fully engaged in listening to music on my iPod. It’s nice to see the stream of people walk by in “silence” as I listen to my music.

Until later on overseas . . .