Picture Gallery for Fri 2005-06-10 23:48:08 UTC

	Loot from the mine tour: a chunk of magnetite, a core sample, and some ore pellets. The pellets are about 72% iron.
	The gleanings from Mark's scavenger hunt among the rocks that make up the pad. The stuff that looks like gold is, in fact, iron pyrite.
	Graduation festivities in Kiruna.
	Driving behind one of the lorries in the graduation parade.
	Driving behind one of the lorries in the graduation parade.
	TE 3. You [heart] us. About half of the banners in the parade were English.
	The parade.
	The parade.
	More graduates.
	More graduates.
	One of the apartment buildings built by LKAB. The small balconies which they're just putting up are meant to resemble the mine skips, the elevators that transport ore from the main drift up to the surface.
	Marie gets a trim.
	A Saab fleet in the Ice Hotel parking lot.
	The Ice Hotel main reception.
	The Ice Hotel main reception. On the wall is a reproduction of John Bauer's Prinsessan Tuvstarr.
	Meeting in the parking lot.
	The Sami Cultural Centre at the other end of town, next to the Church.
	The entranceway to the Church.
	Looking through the entranceway.
	Jukkasjärvi Church.
	Looking from the church yard at a house along the river.
	Inside the church. The church was built in 1607 and expanded in 1728.
	The chandelier.
	A closer view of the center and right panels of the triptych.
	The pipe organ.
	The pipe organ.
	The pipe organ.
	Another view of the Sami Cultural Centre.
	Looking at the town from the front of the church.
	The remains of the ice hotel.
	The remains of the ice hotel.
	A troll with a large sack.
	A moose, carved from a six tonne block of ice.
	Dogs and a troll.
	An impressive ice wall.
	Princess Tuvstarr.
	A man confronts a troll on a mountain.
	More ice sculpture.
	More ice sculpture.
	A troll waiting on top of the mountain.
	The ice bar in the art centre.
	Trolls.
	Trolls.
	Princess Tuvstarr.
	A close up of ice masonry.
	An ice glass.
	Mixing drinks. One benefit of a pub made of ice is that nothing needs to be chilled. The blue curaçao has become rather thick in the cold.
	Mixing drinks.
	Mixing drinks.
	The Ice bar menu.
	Plants imbedded in the ice. These two pictures were taken with the camera face down on the bar.
	Plants imbedded in the ice.
	Gaelen and Marie try their drinks.
	We're not sure if Ed really needed the drink...
	A close-up of the ice glass.
	A close-up of the ice glass.
	A close-up of the ice glass.
	Tuvstarr's caption. Hopefully at some point I'll translate these. The letters are embedded in the ice.
	Princess Tuvstarr.
	The troll with his sack, again.
	Looking across the Torne River, which is here very wide (and perfect for making ice, semeingly).
	The view from Restaurang Hembygdsgården, looking across the river.
	Ducks on the river.
	The village across the river is Poikkijärvi. To get to it by land, you have to go a few kilometres west to the bridge and then back on the other side of the river.
	Ed and Enzo. These remaining pictures were taken by Enzo's wife Katia this evening.
	Ed and Enzo.
	Me, trying to look busy.
	Enzo, Matt, Ed and I. Matt's the only one of us who successfully pulled off the "look busy" thing.
	As you can see, I'm not actually working: that's an xchat window on my screen.
	Gaelen.
	Matt.