Anyways, we made it there about three hours late and my dads cousin and her husband picked me up at the airport. They were so amazingly nice! It was such a good five days.
Friday night when I got there we had dinner and didn't do a whole lot. Saturday, thorstein took me into tonsberg with his granddaughter Jenny and we saw a replica Viking ship that a bunch of volunteers had made by hand the way Vikings used to make them. They were giving tours and rowing it out into the river. You could tell they weren't professional towers because they weren't all synced up and oars kept hitting each other! Thorstein's son Paul was looking at a house to buy so we went and looked at that. There is an old fort near the town and we climbed up the hill and went inside and up to the top. There was such a gorgeous view of the city and part of the fjord. That night, we went out to dinner with three other couples to this really nice place on the harbor. It was pretty good and I had mashed potatoes for the first time in months so I was happy! I felt like such an adult with all of them haha. They all came back to Claudia's house and she had made this peach pie thing which was really tasty. I feel like even more of an adult because I've been drinking tea AND coffee.
On Sunday, we took two of Paul's kids, Jenny and Adrian, out to a lake. Jenny is four and Adrian is 7 I think. The three of us ended up playing in all of the sand and we dug this awesome canal/moat thing. There were some other kids there and they saw what we were doing and they came to play too! It was probably one of the most fun things I've done on this whole trip. And none of them could speak English. When I had first gotten there, Jenny would run away from me because she's shy I guess. After we left the lake though she had to sit next to me and always be around me. She's so adorable! When we got back home, Thorstein started grilling and we had an awesome dinner with pasta and potato salad and lots of meat! Yum!
Monday we went into Oslo and had lunch with their daughter missy. She does research stuff at the hospital there so we ate in the cafeteria. She was just so sweet! She invited me to come stay with her for a few days in Oslo but since I was leaving on Wednesday from an airport back near tonsberg I said no because I didn't think it would be enough time to actually do anything. After we left the hospital, we drove through downtown Oslo and went to a really famous park. We also got to see the Viking ship museum! The ships had been buried because they were graves for Hugh ranking people from back then. There were a lot of interesting things that the found buried with them. They even have pieces of cloth that survived for thousands of years and you can still sort of see whats on them. It was a small museum but pretty cool. We stopped and got some fro yo and saw the castle that is there. I had no idea that they still had a king! He doesn't do much so I guess he is like England's queen. There is so much cool stuff here that I want to buy! I've decided when I get into Ireland I will start throwing clothes away and making room and just start buying souvenirs and stuff. So if you want anything let me know!!
On Tuesday I didn't do a whole lot. I wanted to soak up the last bit of relaxing I could before I rush through three countries in a month! On Wednesday I fly to Edinburgh and I'll stay there for two nights before going to Inverness and down to loch ness. I'm hoping I can go diving or take a really cool boat cruise on the lake. I've been dying to go here and find Nessie since I was a kid! I cant wait to be there!
After that I think I'm going to London for three or four days to meet up with some friends I've made on the trip and then on to Ireland for two weeks and then home!
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