Once you succumb to the prices (easier to do when handling monopoly money or, even better, mindlessly using the credit card), Oslo has a lot to offer. Rob bought a city museum pass to minimize the damage and then tried to maximize its value by hitting up almost every museum in town. On Saturday, we took a ferry across the fjord to see several museums, including the famed Viking Ship Museum:
After the museums, we walked around the island and found a nice spot on the beach to enjoy the view:
On Sunday, we took the train up to the famous Holmenkoller ski jump and museum that overlooks the city. Unfortunately, it rained most of the time we were there, so we didn't get to take advantage of the view. The museum gave an interesting history of skiing, but more importantly achieved an incredible level of verisimilitude with the exhibit on elk:
Think about it. Someone went to college, studied biology and then probably specialized in arctic wildlife, interned at some remote lab in the tundra, finally landed a job at a museum, and then thoughtfully and artfully placed each elk dropping in the precise place it was likely to fall in real life. Amazing. Bravo. (Can you tell who wrote this post?)
The ski jump is really interesting, in that it looks really imposing from below, but when you get to the top and look down, you think, "Yeah, I could do that." Okay, probably not. Especially when you consider how surprisingly worn out you are just from climbing the stairs. Still, on our way down, during a brief respite from the cramping of our legs and the rain, Erika took this cool picture:
Of course, when we got back into town, the weather cleared up, but what are you going to do? All kidding aside, Oslo was a great time and we'll put up some more posts and move some photos into the Flickr account this week.
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