Wednesday 4/1/15 to Thursday 4/2/15
Back to Oslo! We took a ten hour bus ride, including a surprise ferry trip. The ride was pretty bumpy but beautiful. We went high up into the mountains again and the amount of fresh white snow was unbelievable. It couldn't be captured in pictures. I felt as if I was in the Alaskan tundra. The one village we stopped at was crawling with Norwegians skiing and paraboarding (snowboards connected to parachutes).
The next day we visited the Norwegian History Museum. They had a variety of exhibits from around the world including one on Asia and one on North America. Also there were artifacts from the Stone Age, Middle Ages and Viking times.
We finished with some snakes, spiders and monkeys at the Reptile Park. Adam loved the little monkeys! He wants one for a pet. They were jumping all around.
Back to Oslo! We took a ten hour bus ride, including a surprise ferry trip. The ride was pretty bumpy but beautiful. We went high up into the mountains again and the amount of fresh white snow was unbelievable. It couldn't be captured in pictures. I felt as if I was in the Alaskan tundra. The one village we stopped at was crawling with Norwegians skiing and paraboarding (snowboards connected to parachutes).
The next day we visited the Norwegian History Museum. They had a variety of exhibits from around the world including one on Asia and one on North America. Also there were artifacts from the Stone Age, Middle Ages and Viking times.
We finished with some snakes, spiders and monkeys at the Reptile Park. Adam loved the little monkeys! He wants one for a pet. They were jumping all around.
On a bus on a ferry
Cool kids sit in the back of the bus
Medieval drinking horn.
Medieval wood art.
World's oldest and most well preserved viking helmet.
Most of the information in the exhibits were in Norwegian but not their one! Apparently all we need to know is that "The Vikings were violent." In realty some were more violent than others and they were much more than brutes. They also had an effective democracy.
The Norwegian Royal Palace
Sculpture safari in front of National Theater
Adam's favorite! Pygmy monkey, world's smallest monkey that can turn their head around 180 degrees.
Sitting fancy on some fancy public chairs
Kyle, Sidney, Adam, Me
Sitting near the water on the Opera House. It was built so that you could walk onto the roof and have a beautiful view of the fjord.
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