Vaktmenn Video

Ok, I'm going to try this video thing again.
While we were in Oslo on the 5th, we went to the Palace, where King Harald and Queen Sonja live, and we saw the little parade and changing of the guards, and I got a pretty good clip of it (for the little camera I have, they were pretty good).

One of the police officers there told us that the guards who were all there were the new freshman who were being trained, so it actually took quite a while.
In Norway, after the boys finish secondary school, they all have to do a year of civil service, and being in this troop is a kind of prestigious thing. So all the soldiers that were there 19 years old.
Just in case you can't put 2 and 2 together: 30+ 19-year-old Norwegian boys in uniform? Um, I'd say I was in the right place at the right time.

Anyway, let's see if this video clip works--IT WORKS IT WORKS!! At least it does on my computer...I apologize if it doesn't work on yours.