Being together as a whole family is a rare thing for the Skogen family. But, our dad has been generous enough to take us all to Norway…a total of 13. I’m the youngest of 7, 4 are married, plus mom and dad. (the grand kids were left at home) We all flew into Detroit from various cities. We traveled from Detroit to Amsterdam, then from Amsterdam to Oslo. I was able to watch three movies!
The Oslo airport is the nicest and cleanest airport I’ve ever been to. The architecture was gorgeous, there was tons of glass, and had nice wood flooring! I was impressed. Immediately after getting off the plane, we hopped on our private short coach bus and started touring Oslo.
We stopped at The Opera, Bygdøy, The Viking Ship Museum, Kon-Tiki Museum, and the Vigeland Sculpture Park. I’d say the sculpture park was my favorite, not only because all the sculptures were naked people, but the artist’s work revolved around the circle of life, from birth to death. I haven’t photographed death, but the first part I’m really interested in documenting! : )
Finally hoping to relax after flying to Norway then sightseeing for 4 hours, we went to the Grand Hotel to get ready for dinner…we only had 45 minutes. We walked a few blocks away to this cute and modern little restaurant to meet family friends that we haven’t seen in about 10 years!! Now up to 20 people, we sat at a huge long table in a private room, ate a 4 course meal, and drank a different wine with each dish. Have you ever had gold pop rocks on a piece of fudge?? It kind of freaked me out. The dinner lasted more than 3 hours. By this time, for those of us who couldn’t sleep on the flight, had been up for about 36 hours.
