Greetings from Oslo!
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lady_saraiI am in Oslo. Whoa.
The brother is out being touristy and letting me use his laptop for a brief moment, provided I don't use his IM programs. :P Ah well!
It is 10:45 pm here (4:45 in Maine!), and it is still DAYLIGHT out. This is not going to help with the jetlag, if there is no *actual* night for a few days. ;) (But it's wicked cool.)
The flights were fine, except for the hour we sat *on* the plane in Boston before take-off, and for the fact that the flight from Newark was 7 hours long and it felt longer. We landed and got through customs with no problems, then took the train to Oslo and arrived at the hotel by noon--but we couldn't check in until 3.
Keep in mind that apparently it's physically impossible to sleep on an airplane. >_< So at noon we'd been awake for 24 hours--as it was 6 am in Maine. We sat in the lounge for 3 hours, except for the trip to the train station across the street to buy bread, cheese and Firklover--the best candy bar IN THE WORLD. Yum!
Anyway, the trip here was exhausting and draining and left us all in lousy moods until we checked in and took naps. I've never had a shower that felt quite as good as the one I took when we checked in! Also, my ears have FINALLY stopped ringing from the descent into Norway--*ow*.
Hopefully there can be some serious sleeping tonight, before the serious sightseeing starts tomorrow--we're going to the World War II museum and the Palace and some other place whose name I couldn't catch.
I really hope I start picking up some Norwegian, although most everyone speaks English if they realize we don't.
Anyway, this is mainly a "we're here!!" post. =D
The sunlight at this time of night is REALLY cool and bizarre all at once.
The brother is out being touristy and letting me use his laptop for a brief moment, provided I don't use his IM programs. :P Ah well!
It is 10:45 pm here (4:45 in Maine!), and it is still DAYLIGHT out. This is not going to help with the jetlag, if there is no *actual* night for a few days. ;) (But it's wicked cool.)
The flights were fine, except for the hour we sat *on* the plane in Boston before take-off, and for the fact that the flight from Newark was 7 hours long and it felt longer. We landed and got through customs with no problems, then took the train to Oslo and arrived at the hotel by noon--but we couldn't check in until 3.
Keep in mind that apparently it's physically impossible to sleep on an airplane. >_< So at noon we'd been awake for 24 hours--as it was 6 am in Maine. We sat in the lounge for 3 hours, except for the trip to the train station across the street to buy bread, cheese and Firklover--the best candy bar IN THE WORLD. Yum!
Anyway, the trip here was exhausting and draining and left us all in lousy moods until we checked in and took naps. I've never had a shower that felt quite as good as the one I took when we checked in! Also, my ears have FINALLY stopped ringing from the descent into Norway--*ow*.
Hopefully there can be some serious sleeping tonight, before the serious sightseeing starts tomorrow--we're going to the World War II museum and the Palace and some other place whose name I couldn't catch.
I really hope I start picking up some Norwegian, although most everyone speaks English if they realize we don't.
Anyway, this is mainly a "we're here!!" post. =D
The sunlight at this time of night is REALLY cool and bizarre all at once.
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Date: 2007-06-25 06:13 pm (UTC)I'm going to try to steal some of my brother's pics off his laptop to post; here goes!