"Getting lost is not a waste of time. To travel is to evolve." Pierre Bernard

Wow, have we been evolving! Not that we have been "lost" in the real sense of the word, we have a vague feeling of where we are, as in "we are in Oslo".  It's the "what bus do we take?", "is this our stop?", "no we shouldn't have gotten off here", and the famous "google maps says one kilometre, I thought we could walk here easily" type of lost. Plus the language thing! It's ok here in these big places, they speak English really well, but I feel so unintelligent! I don't know how to use public transport AND I can't speak Norwegian. Ah well, we are doing fine though, after our beautiful train ride and a successful day using the oslo bus system, we have seen quite a bit.
Yesterday we saw the viking ship museum and Edward Munch museum (pronounced monk), saw "the scream" in person, I felt a little conspicuous standing in that dark room with my black clothes on and the guard talking to someone on a little hand set while glancing at me. Turns out he didn't think I was going to steal it (it's been stolen twice) he was calling someone so he could take his break, anyway, it was just sitting there, you can put your nose right up to it! Pretty neat, Munch had a dark side, enjoyed all his sketches and he donated everything from his studio and so there where sketchbooks and palettes, we all enjoyed it. Maybe some of us spent too much time reading, but it wasn't too long of a stop. The viking ships were incredible, I was struck mostly by the fact that one of those huge ships was used for two women. They dragged this ship up on shore, laid out these two women in all the best clothes, on full beds, with food and horses, etc, everything they would need for a journey, and then buried it all! So much work, I really want to know who these women are, they are inconclusive as to that so far. I enjoyed that women seemed to be fairly equal in that society and I have my own opinions on the "rape and pillage" culture the Vikings seem to be attributed with. If you look at who was writing the history books at that time and since then...well I won't get in to it, it's the media, even back then, promoting what was more exciting and who it's going to benefit.
We took the bus back home after our one kilometre, not one kilometre, walk, and after a quick huddle and a look at a map and street signs we found our street! Yay us! We ate dinner out at a Mexican restaurant last night and ended up chatting with a couple from Sweden, our next venture, it was quite serendipitous, we have been kind of exhausted with the little stresses of trying to find our way off the train with our heavy backpacks and to a bus, etc. so we have been tossing around the idea of smaller towns. One place that we happened upon is Kalmar in Sweden. Turns out, the gentleman beside us grew up there! We took it as a sign and will make our way there in the next week. They currently live in Stockholm, which I would also like to see but maybe we can take a day trip from Kalmar. Okay everyone, google map it now so you can see where we will be! Haha!
We are just having some breakfast now and are going to take the bus to the train and the train to Kongsvinger to see what we can see, just a day trip. Thinking of everyone back home, and missing you...yeah you. ;)