This is my scoop today, Sara tells herself, this horrible picture. The picture is static and clumsily posed, like an amateur's snapshot, but Sara is pretty sure they have never before been photographed together in the national media.
On the other side, where Sara has parked her blue Toyota, she coas Gro and her granddaughter to stand together for a portrait. The ferry docks on the mainland just before three. Rain falls, intermittent but hard, and Gro decides to cut short her visit. Sara Johannessen, the photographer, takes pictures of Gro speaking in the cafeteria and laughing with campers and touring Utoeya in a pair of borrowed boots. One of the Oslo newspapers, _Verdens Gang, _decides to do a light feature on the occasion, and a reporter and a photographer are dispatched to follow Gro around the island. On Utoeya, Gro will be visiting her granddaughter, who is in the AUF. It has been known for generations as Kjærlighetsstien, the Lovers' Trail. A narrow path follows the edge of the island as it rises to cliffs on the western side, then back down to a rocky beach on the southern tip. There are a few buildings-the main white building, the cafeteria, a cherry red schoolhouse, tiny green cabins-and a soccer pitch in a clearing, but most of Utoeya is forest and meadow. The island itself, which is small and heart-shaped, was a gift to the AUF from the Oslo and Akershus trade unions in 1950. The AUF is by far the largest political youth organization in Norway, and its parent party, Labor, has long been the dominant faction in a coalition government. The Labor Party Youth League (Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking in Norwegian, abbreviated to AUF) has held a camp on Utoeya every summer for sixty-one years.
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