3 Generations Take on Oslo

For the weekend we purchased the 2 day Oslo Pass for each of us.  It gets you free transportation on anything and admission to most museums!  We started our day at the Ibsen Museum, Henrik Ibsen is a famous Norwegian playwright and director, one you may know is Peer Gynt.  We got to tour his old apartment and a small museum full of memorabilia.  We spent a lot of time there and actually enjoyed it a lot.  The bathrooms there blew my mind.  Hands down coolest bathroom I've EVER been in!  I'm weird...I know ;)

Then we headed to the other side of town to see the Folk Museum.  This was more of an outdoor museum, looking at old buildings, with some small exhibits.  During the summer time they have people dressed up and do plays, craftsmanship, etc, I would compare it to something like the Forest City Stockade, but bigger and with more history.  It was a lot of walking for Grandma, but the buildings were so old, it was really neat.  We were able to try some freshly made lefse from a fire...it was AMAZING!  With just melted butter, no sugar needed...yummm!  There were some live animals in the barn, it reminded me of home...  It was a really neat place, and we all enjoyed being outside and seeing what old Norway would have looked like. 

We then found out that basically everything closes at 4pm...on the weekends, like WTF?  We did get a chance to visit the Nobel Peace Prize center though, which Mom really liked.  Lots of stuff about Obama, obviously since he is the current winner, pretty strange feeling.  I think we may have eaten at TGIFriday's that night...  Pretty crazy how even a chain restaurant can be SO expensive in Norway. 

Already at this point the late nights and early mornings were making me tired!  School is so inconsistent here it's literally impossible for my body to get on any sort of schedule.  Mom and Grandma were going okay with their time change, though some nights they said they were waking up at 4am.  Joyyy.

Sunday we decided to get up EARLIER so that we could hit up more museums before 4pm!  We started out at the Viking ship museum.   There are 3 huge Viking ships that have been excavated along with lots of old objects.  Pretty amazing stuff.  Then we took another bus closer to the water and hit up 3 museums!  The Kon-Tiki mainly focused on the travels of Thor Heyerdahl and everything he accomplished over his life.  He basically was a badass who was out to prove everyone wrong about adventuring.

Next we went to the Fram museum, a huge ship that is the only one to have made it to both the North and South Poles.  This thing was HUGE and you can walk all over it and inside.  There was a little bridge to walk onto the top, and Mom hates heights, HILARIOUS, I trapped her on it when we were walking off, she's a wuss!  Grandma hung out on top while Mom and I went 3 levels down in the ship, they had little exhibits in each of the rooms.  I will admit, history can sometimes be interesting...

After that we went to the Maritime museum, which wasn't really that interesting, lots of paintings of boats, old boat parts, etc.  But we did have a good snack, and had some Apple Cake..soooo good!  Oh...and it rained this whole day.  Whoo.  So then we went and waited for the ferry and took that back to the harbor.  Figured we would try a new method of transportation while we could.  Being on the water just feels so nice!