Ok, so after several busy days of running around the city of Oslo I finally have a little time to update my blog. We landed safely in Oslo around 10:40 am (local time). I got several photos of the snow capped hills as we flew in. We found our hostel and met some interesting folks from Japan and Argentina. Yesterday we traveled by ferry to a part of Oslo that contains several museums and we decided to check out the Viking museum. Very very interesting things, some of the boats and artifacts we saw were dated back several hundred years before A.D.!! The wood on the boats looked as if it was just recently chopped down. Excellent preservation!! Here is a video:
After this we checked out one of the coolest scenes in Oslo. First, there was really cool statues of people in the nude and an obelisk in the center:
There was a huge park were people were laying out in the sun and a big concert was going on geared towards the children of the area. The area was packed and we found a stand that was selling fruit, so I bought a cup of cherries (that were very yummy) and some water and we moved on to the Paleontology/Geology/Mineralogy museums on the University of Oslo campus. These were very awesome and they had some very cool fossils. They had the classic "club spined" echinoid (Pseudocidaris) and a brachiopod from the Jurassic with the lophophore still very much preserved. Wow!
Norwegian word of the day: Takk (means "thanks")
Till next time,
Justin
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