My brother Øyvind and sister Cecilie, also in the butterfly conservatory in Niagara Falls.

Hehe, I don’t know if he’ll appreciate the title, but here is my little brother, Øyvind, seven years younger than me. We visited the butterfly conservatory in Niagara Falls, where everyone had great fun getting the butterflies to sit on them (more of that later.) Once again a somewhat sub-optimal picture (and again, the photographer’s fault, not the subject’s).

Next up in my family portrait series is Cecilie, my two-year-younger sister.

*Update*
I changed the original picture, which was not very good, with this one.

Here’s my mum, Randi, at the Farmer’s Market in St Catharines, only a few days after they arrived. I’ve decided to make a family portrait series, so I’ll be posting pictures of my siblings as well in the next few days.

This post is meant as vindication for my dad, Helge, who I presented in an earlier post as the barbeque baron. He thought it gave people the wrong impression of him. Well, in addition to being an epicurean he is also a wine aficionado, here depicted in the wine cellar of Chateau des Charmes in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Here we are, in front of the Niagara Falls. From left: me, dad, mum, brother, sister.

When my entire family came to visit me, as they announced they would the moment I said I was going to study in Canada four years ago, where was it more natural to take them than to Niagara Falls? Here they stand right under the American Falls.

Me, my dad and my broher Øyvind went camping in a mountainarea in Norway called Jotunheimen (literally: home of the giants). Here’s Øyvind sitting by the campfire.

Cecilie, Øyvind and I went on a weekend trip to a waterpark and amusement park called Bø Sommarland.

My brother Øyvind in front of a raging torrent of water trying to go through a too-narrow channel.

The legendarily rainy summer of 2007 created a lot of water, all of which had to go somewhere. These cascades have been dammed and the water is used for electricity production (no, different cascades than the ones in previous post). The cascades are normally dry at high summer – except for this year.