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Family Reflections:
It's beautiful here! Oslo has art installations at every turn.
Christmas Market sausages and cheese wheel pasta are amazing.
Saw several people, in bathing suits and not, dipping in the cold water. 😁
Definitely hard not to sleep in with the sun rising late and weird to be out in the dark at 3pm!
We might not be opera people after our first opera going. The location was awesome, the voices and music amazing, but we all thought we'd rather just close our eyes and listen rather than have the stage performance.
Shout out!
A Ferry Arrival!
We were welcomed to Oslo via fjord by a full rainbow!
The sun is just coming up at 930!
Sørenga and Bjørvika Areas (Harbor Promenade Walk)
Chilly and worth it! A view of our ferry ship from the other side.
Pretending it's summer at the swim area.
Saw some clothed and some not, dipping at this swim spot...a ton more populated in the summer.
This is as close as we got to the frigid water, along with dipping our fingers in of course.
Shout out to cousin Freya! There's a sauna house with your name on it!
Love to the little duck floating homes!
Tons of birds at the Opera House! A bit scary...surprisingly, nobody was pooped on.
Walking on top of the Opera House...surprisingly not a slippery experience, even when wet.
Opera House
The Royal Palace and History Museum
Hooray for Christmas Markets!
We may have swung by on countless occasions for food stall food and warm-up drinks. 😄
I tried to tell them that candy apples kind of suck, but they tried them anyway. Waylon's a believer now and will stick to caramel or chocolate; Amari claims she would get another (or is that just the preteen talking).
They take a long time to eat. I had to crack Waylon's on the ground (on a napkin of course)!
Changing of the Guard
Our Viking names
Ekeberg Park
A view from the park out over Oslo Center.
Can you spot the statue?
This piece is amazing, it's actually quite flat, only a depth of about a foot!
These are lit up white underwear of many shapes...we loved it!
The park also celebrates rock cups from the Iron Age, along with remnants of burial grounds from the past 4,000 years!
Vigeland Sculpture Park
Gustav Vigeland (1865-1943) was a Norwegian sculptor celebrated for his countless sculptures depicting humankind in all its stages. This place is gorgeous!
Loved the reuse of the old, historical telephone booths made into free libraries!
A whole section dedicated to babies...I just kept thinking baby yoga poses.
Baby pile! I loved the baby statues in particular, but Vigeland's pieces really focus on all stages of life, from birth to death.
I...saw the sign (if you sang that, you're from my generation), and so did Vigeland!
The Fram Museum (Polar Exploration)
A super cool museum where we got to go on and into two of the actual ships used for some of the first and greatest polar expeditions ever!
The Fram, the strongest ice ship, made history too!
I'm seeing a pattern where Waylon likes to pose on old toilets.
Some National Museum favs...and saw The Scream here.
Harald Sohlberg: Winter Night in the Mountains
Jens Ferdinand Willumsen: After the Tempest
And making our own art throughout the museum (below).
One of the four nights making gingerbread cookies, before going to our first opera.
The Oslo Opera House really is beautiful...the interior is mainly wood.
I've spent too much time on Google trying to ID this instrument (like a 90 degree bent trombone/baritone). Can anyone confirm that this might be called a Cimbasso? New to us!
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