First Day of Sightseeing

Kyle and I meet Gabrielle at the T-bane station and we get off at the National Theatre stop. We walk down to the harbor and take the public ferry, which is free with your ruter card (the monthly subway pass). The ferry takes us to Bygdoy peninsula where a lot of Oslo's museums are located.

The ferry drops us off at the end of a wealthy street, where there are lots of gorgeous houses with pristine white wraparound porches and shiny black winter rooftops. 

We head to the Viking Ship Museum first, where entrance is free for university students. The museum houses three viking ships that were buried around 900 AD with one holding two women and another holding two men. They were likely wealthy people and were buried with food, clothing, animals, and jewels, the necessary items for the afterlife. One ship that is the best preserved is massive and built for ocean travel.

 Next we go to the Norwegian Folk Museum, which is like a Scandinavian Colonial Williamsburg complete with actors in costume and wood cutting demonstrations. We walk to Stave Church, a Scandinavian church with Christian paintings inside, and then walk around the quaint little country village with grass-roofed cottages and horse carriage rides.