The Chronicles - the photo evidence: Oslo Sure?

Friday, August 17

We got to Oslo at 6:04 am or something, got to the hostel to find out we had to wait until 1:00 pm to check in and they were really rude about it. At least they let us drop off our stuff... On minimal sleep and 2 days of travel, we wandered the streets of Oslo.

Oslo bus lines.

We didn't take any photos. At 1:00 pm we returned to the hostel to find chaos, everyone had to check in at 1:00 pm. Genius, folks. Then we ate dinner and showered and stuff and headed back out to town.

Downtown Oslo.

Fancy bike rentals.

By the water.

The old fort.

It was starting to get dark...and we were on the lake and it was pretty. Then we noticed that there was some sort of lakefront festival going on.

It was a bit of a struggle to sneak in, even though it was free.

Turns out it was an Indian festival... or south-east Asian festival, I don't really know. It was neat though...I felt more at home there for some reason.

Awesome!

Theatre nearby.

We walked down the main strip on the way home.

Oslo was small it seems, but complicated.

Back at the hostel we met our roommates, two Americans from Minnesota, who were going to do a semester outside Stockholm. First time outside of the USA.

Saturday, August 18
Post-breakfast, we headed out to the rich suburbs of Oslo to check out some museums. First stop: Vikingship Museum

Ship 1.

Back in the 60s a farmer found 4 burial ships in his yard. Rich vikings would be buried out at sea with belongings (think like Egyptians) and so they took them out and preserved the ships, as the bodies had long ago decomposed.

Ship 2

It had a trailer or this was on the top.

And this escape ship... umm.

Ship 3

The Vikings made it pretty far across the world.

Something else found on the ships...

This is the oldest chariot known to man... it goes only straight.

Neat? Btw, check out how busy this place is!

Sleigh

Check out the detail.

Here are some crazy personal belongings found on board:

Boots that are 500 years old.

For the horse, not the madam.

Gold.

So many people.

How they got the ships to the university (and subsequently the church where they are now).

After finishing up there, we headed over to something similar to Pioneer Village, but more Norweigan and about 143% cooler.

Rich Norweigan house.

There was something eerie about this.

The doll...

The other building in the court for the museum thing.

Inside of it...

This was an exhibit about waste and garbage.

Recycle fabric

Messages to...

Useful information.

Then historical folkart.

Naughty...

Into the village:

Traditional Drunks?

Traditional Wife beating?

It was kind of neat though.. no?

Open a bank account and get a toy!

Best exhibit ever? There was a table in a room.

Scariest mannequin ever.

Old Gas Station.

Then we headed to the traditional part of the village.

That dude walking in there, came out with a lady and busted out in song. It was hilarious.

We never did figure this out.

Tiny, tiny house.

More old houses.

That smoke has to be good for the baby. There was a freaky old (Norwegian) lady in that house cooking or something,

Where the trolls roam.

The only reason I include this photo is when I showed these photos to my family in Germany after the trip, my cousin Kerstin's boyfriend Logan had this to say, "Fleisch!!" (MEAT!!!) and made me stop. That killed me.

haha

Church. Those people dance on an hourly basis, we were not lucky enough to catch them. There was also an old man photographing that lady. We saw him all over town. Creep.