Oslo

Our last European holiday was spent in Scandinavia. We're glad we were able to make it up to Scandinavia. This holiday was definitely an enjoyable, relaxing one. We had plenty of time to see and do what we were interested in. It was nice to actually have a bit of a vacation while on holiday. Novel idea, huh? We flew to Oslo on May 18th and arrived right around dinnertime. We spent 2 nights and one full day in Oslo, Norway.

We stayed busy on our one and only day in Oslo. Once we got ourselves put together and out the door of the hotel we grabbed a ferry and enjoyed exploring a nearby island called Hovedoya. We had plans to go to another island, but for some reason (sorry, our Norwegian isn't strong) the ferry to that island wasn't running. We enjoyed Hovedoya though. Here's Audrey waiting in line for the ferry:

We enjoyed walking around the island. We couldn't have asked for better weather. We came upon a little beach area. Audrey was fast asleep by then...

But Rachel enjoyed playing in the water...

And Audrey didn't stay asleep that long:

After our short visit to Hovedoya we took the ferry back to the mainland, found a grocery store to pick up some lunch items, and headed to the Vigeland Sculpture Park. We enjoyed a nice picnic lunch. Doesn't Audrey look thrilled???

Our pictures don't do the sculpture park justice. It really was a neat park to explore. Rachel thought this particular statue was hilarious:

Everyone using their shades on a sunny, beautiful day:

Rachel, our little photographer, taking charge:

She's such a good little poser! Believe me, we tried to get some pictures of Audrey, but she wasn't exactly cooperative. So, here's a few of Rachel...

After checking out the sculptures we headed to the playground and the girls enjoyed some fun! We then took another ferry and visited the Kon-Tiki Museum. We could have worn ourselves out from museums in Oslo, as usual. So, we deiced to chose one that was the most interesting to us. After taking a ferry to where the museum was, we found that several other museums were right in the same area. So, we grabbed a picture in front of a ship that was on display outdoors:

We enjoyed our visit to the Kon-Tiki Museum. Definitely put together well and well-worth our time. Quite an interesting story. The Kon-Tiki is actually a raft that was used be a Norwegian in 1947 to go from South America to the Polynesian islands. Andy and I had never heard of Thor Heyerdahl, so we enjoyed checking the museum out.

Audrey cooperated for this shot:

After the museum we chilled on a bench by the ocean. We enjoyed the view and the girls enjoyed roaming around on the grass...

On the ferry headed back to the mainland for some dinner:

We then walked around Oslo a bit more, grabbed a horrible dinner (won't be eating at a T.G.I.Fridays anytime soon - our fault for trying something American), and did some shopping. We enjoyed our day exploring Oslo. The next morning we had a flight to Bergen. More to come...