To start the morning Mom Aunt Deb and I mailed some stuff home to lighten our loads. After grabbing some caffeine, we met the boys at the fortress to see the Resistance museum. It was about the Norwegian resistance in WWII. It was really cool. There were displays on what the Nazis generally did and how the resistance in all it's forms responded. When the Nazi's attacked the King barely got out. Almost immediately the resistance started. There were tons of underground newspapers and all sorts of ways to hide microfilm to get information to the Allies. There was so much cool stuff it was awesome.
After the Resistance museum, we went to the famous sculpture garden. It is on 75 acres and has a ton of statues in the main area. This park would not be found in the states, every single one of the statues is a nude. It was very cool and interesting. We at lunch at a cafe in the park. It was very nice. We had open faced sandwiches and people watched.
After lunch, we headed to tour the Ski jump. We took the metro out to it and walked a great deal up. It was massive 361 m long and very tall as well. Ir had a neat skiing museum in it. After a quick buzz through the museum we took the funicular/elevator up to the top. Even Dad did it, which is great for him. It had great panoramic views of Oslo. Mom, Aunt Deb and Uncle Chuck decided to take the faster way down: a zipline. They went down all 362m at 60 km/h. Completely crazy but they had a lot of fun.Dad and I took pictures and carried the bags down. Afterwards Uncle Chuck and I did the Ski jump simulator.
We caught the metro back to the hostel and gabbed some supper. After supper, we all hung out for awhile. Everyone else decided to go wander some more. I stayed back because of a slight headache and being tired. They had a lovely time. We all went to bed pretty early due to an early train the next morning.
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