Oslo, Norway - Monday

06-22: Oslo Norway. We had a quiet morning and a nice lunch in the World Café. We took the included tour today after lunch. It was called Oslo Highlights and Vigeland Park. We have both been to Oslo before but not to the park, so that was fun with all the different statues. The statues are meant to show humankind at all ages and as we grow and age. Interesting exhibit. It was quite controversial when it opened because all the statues are nude. One reason for this is making it timeless. If they were clothed it would date the period in time. There are exactly 212 sculptures in Vigeland Park. All of these bronze, granite, and wrought-iron statues were created by the single Norwegian artist Gustav Vigeland. It was a lot of walking with a LOT of stairs but we made it! Well, glad I made it, no problems for Stuart. It is warm again today, but not as warm as yesterday. Our next stop was the ski jump, quite the amazing site! You have to imagine it with a lot of snow! We were back to the ship by 5p, sail away is 6p. Viking doesn’t really do anything special for sail away. After freshening up we headed to Alan’s presentation at 6:30p. It was interesting about the relationship of Denmark and Sweden in 1864, called the forgotten war. We had a really quick bite for dinner and rushed to Trivia. Jackie joined us again tonight. Next was the show followed by cards. So, we had a full and busy day.