Today we toured Oslo and Taz was the navigator. We started around 10ish and went all around and by the end I had tripped and my knee was sore. I needed ice :/ but I saw everything I wanted to see. We saw the Parliament, the fort, where I took a picture with the statue like guard who barely nodded to say it was ok to take a picture. We passed the national theatre and saw the Vigeland Sculpture park. We found it interesting that being primarily Catholic, this park was allowed. We learned that we couldn't do the norway in a nutshull due to a flooding in the West. So we planned to go east- Lillehammer, then Trondheim, then a boat to Bergen and then home. The online reservation didn't work so we dashed to the metro to take it to the main centre and got our train tickets for the next afternoon (around 2300)
We then went to a bar/tea shop where we stated till about 1 AM. The bus we were informed to take was wrong so we looked our map and were able to get to our destination. our host told us to the follow the river back. Well, the river split so we did our best to follow it. I saw a fitness centre sign and our host is next to one (and it is crossfit) so we kept following it. About 30-40 minutes later we had created our own path to his house. I got an ice pack at the tea place so I iced down and researched the remainder of our trip, got us a place to stay for at least tomorrow, and signed up for couchsurfing. I slept around 3:30/4. We had our dehydrated food and home made hot cocoa for dinner!
30th of October
We woke up around 9. Finished all we bought from the grocery store for breakfast and then went to the grocery store again. We got chickpeas, tuna in oil, and spagetti noodles. We took the metro to Oslo Centre. We looked at the Opera House from the outside and toured in the mini mall in the metro ( sooo cool). We then took a the train to Lillehammer! We took a small nap and woke up to the Oslo Fyord. We had some snacks for lunch. We arrived to Lillehammer and it took me forever to convert money; this girl and I just arranged for me to giver her my money for hers! We left our bags and I repacked mine a bit. We left them in the lockers as we were coming back the next day-we took what we needed. We wanted to get our tickets for tomorrow but my card didn't work. So, Taz used hers. But she got my ticket for 1 AM. So we had to go to the store get her to fill out a form, cancel the ticket and we had to mail the form for Taz to get a refund. Then I tried again and was able to get my ticket.
Taz had a picture of the directions to our guesthouse. We walked till a shell, asked for directions and then kept walking until we ended up at a dead end (really it was an unsafe unpaved road). We walked back where this nice middle aged lady led us to the path that would take us to the destination. In the middle of no-where we go all the way down the path, nada! We walk a bit up and there is our place ( it was already pitch dark). Taz and I cooked the pasta that was at the guest house with, the tuna, her olives, and the chickpeas. I got dehydrated food and the tea. We left the dehydrated food for tomorrow but devoured everything else.
I booked a ticket from Bergen to Oslo and planned out Trondheim. I couldn't get the boat reservation b/c there was no English option so to bed I went around 23/24.
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