*yawn* what, half past five already? uuuuuuaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh! ok, let's get up! unfortunately the sunny weather had far greater trouble getting up, so the ferryboat ride along the beautiful lyse fjord is pretty foggy and cold. and pretty windy it is, too. the boat runs nearly 30 miles an hour, according to the navigator in my pocket, so about 28 knots! but the dragon would not be the dragon nor mine, if they wouldn't want to go on deck regardless. so, jacket on, the good old PLO scarf wrapped around head and neck and dodging behind the ramp is good as it goes - beautiful! i don't exactly know HOW, but norway just looks beautiful even in rain and fog; just different colors, but never ugly! what a country!
then we have to kill over 8 long hours, beat them dead, one at a time. at the end of the fjord is a little - well - settlement, and there is literally nothing to do. at least if you're not a BASE jumper. and theiir season is long since past. this far up north there is merely oone month of summer, says the nice lady in the pub, which luckily is already open and provides us with coffee.
we pack the dragon into the various transportation devices and wander around a little, sit down a little, eat a little and marvel at nature a lot.
at some point in time the dragon left on the boat with gramma and grampa, the weather is showing norway from in its prettiest colors! and we get going, to kjerag. amazing, how 12 years alter your memory! the hike is the absolute killer! even _I_ myself have no clue how i did it in my motorcycle armor last time, way back when... tempus fugit, as the old romans said, time flies. and despite the merciless and cruel way i try to keep the pace up for the group, we still only end up getting a few minutes, literally, to take the coveted photos, turn around and get going again, at perforce pace. 09:39 i open the car door, in the dark! 2 slopes we made it down in this condition, with a light strapped to our foreheads. with the dragon absolutely impossible! probably only with camping the night out up there, somewhere... and even that would be challenging. but OK, if they want to, they are going to have to go by themselves one day. i will be sitting at the dock, swing my legs, dipping them into the water, have a drink and look forward to their pictures. :) and until then, my knees should be fine again, too... *yowl*

I feel dizzy just looking at you ! *terrifying*