Norwegian Princess Part II

*please note the new template, thought it was time for a change even though i only have like 2 more months on this blog, but oh well. better late than never!!!*

ok so where did i leave off???? lets see, i believe i left off in bergen! anyways not much else happened except we took refuge in a pub from the rain and just hung out and people watched and sat in really really comfy couchy things. we had some major hanging out to do since we had to catch a night train back to oslo from bergen that night around 2300 i think. so we eventually grabbed our stuff from our hostel, said goodbye to bergen and hit the train. for some reason its 8 hours going back to oslo instead of the 7 hours to get from oslo so we had an extra hour to kill, BUT of course i get a stupid person sitting next to me. while we were sleeping she takes up her entire chair ( and mind you this girl is craaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy skinny) and starts like snuggling into my arm and cuddling with it. i quickly took that away. and then she started trying to take over my chair too and push me up against the window. i put my foot down and didnt move, and i sorta made my elbow jab out a bit more than it actually did to make it more uncomfortable for her.....haha! anyways so we get to bergen at like 630 or something like and we have sleep walking go back to our original hostel, and since we cant checkin till afternoon and no place was open we all crashed on the couches in the lobby like hobos. oh well i got some better sleep.

so once we were up and atom we hoped a train and headed for the viking museum which we were all really excited for!!!! this is the museum that houses the three famous viking ships that you always see pictures of...as such:some important queen was burried in this boat ( a leisure boat, not a war one) and burried some farmer found it around the turn of the twentieth century.

so we show up a about 30 minutes early for the museum to actually open we really had no idea what time it opened at, and we were joined by some japanese or chinese giant group of tourists. and jenna, courtney, and myself were just sitting on a bench talking and next thing we know they are taking picutres of us and taking videos all the while trying not to make us wise to it. it was really weird, i guess we were some what entertaining but really we were all still really tired and just hanging out. hm, basically i famous in tokyo or some place. jealous???inside the museum, i am just about to vike... ( if you cant tell)

so this museum holds 3 ships, the one i am in front of. and then there is 2 more, one of them being in horrible condition but the first viking ship found ever in the world and another one that is a sea ship, meant for a long journeys. all the ships though were used to bury very important people. from the viking museum we hoped a bus back down to the harbour and went up to a fortress that is by the water to go to the norwegian resistance museum. and for some reason i had this idea in my head that during the war the norwegians smuggled out their gold on children's sleds, and sled them right under the nazi's noses. i thought i read a book about it, but the resistance museum didnt really talk about it. did anyone else read that book? i think the cover had a purple border and a picture of a kid on a sled looking slightly worried....a statue of fdr in down by the harbour, we thought we would go say hi. i even sat in his lap!!!!

from here we wanted to find a bathroom and we found a bathroom alright and we also found some really really really amazing cheesecake. can you tell that i am excited for it????

well i can...

from here we walked up to this park called viegland (or something like that) park. this park is basically the most famous park in norway, and it had some really really crazy statues. so this one guy dedicated his whole life really to making all these statues and they are supposed to represent the human condition and all stuff like that..you know anger, love, confusion and so on and so on. but at the center is this giant stick of people entertwined, and i am pretty sure that somebody said it was made from one block of rock. but basically this is a park where a lot of locals just come to hang out and bbq or whatever. we ended just sittin on the steps leading up to the "people stick" for a long time in the sun. it was just wonderful!!!!

this is angry baby...i am guessing terrible twos maybe? but its really famous i guess...

this is man being attacked by babies....this was my favourite by far!!! i like the one getting dropped kicked. classic times and crazy days!stick o' people....looks like children riding the mama.....

after this outing we basically called it a night at the hostel since we had a bus to catch crazy early in the morning that we had to get up around 5 and we were already exhausted. so we thought we had the room to ourselves and we did until about one am, when all of a sudden 2 girls come barging in with all their luggage, talk in normal voices, turn the lights on, and just being VERY inconsiderate. it really sucked. eventually jenna got up looked at them straight in the eye, not saying a word, turned off the light and climbed back into bed. ugh. they were so annyoing they woke us all up and didnt seem to care. so we were particularly quiet in the morning when we were leaving. ha what goes around comes around!!!

so tomorrow i leave for rome and athens and i am really excited so you wont hear from me for a bit but when i come back i will have some stories!!!! oh yeah and today and yesterday my dad was here to visit, it was really good seeing him. he had to teach up at a camp up north and swung it so he could come hang out here with me for a bout 2 days, it was awesome . we did london, he meet some of my friends here, and we did a really full day at hampton court palace and the gardens were soooooooooo gorgeous. anyways...until later!!!!!! ciao!