Third Day in Oslo

Friday was a big day for us again. We woke up, had breakfast in the hotel, heard a few presentations from classmates, and then walked up to the Royal Palace for some pictures, and on to Henrik Ibsen's apartment. Ibsen died in 1906, but being one of the most well known authors in Norway made his final residence a point of interest for many, and so a museum has sprung up around him, and the museum was able to purchase his apartment and has done extensive work to restore it to the way it was when Ibsen lived there. We had a wonderful tour of the apartment, looked around the exhibition, spent some money in the shop (I felt that it would be appropriate to have a Norwegian copy of Peer Gynt), and then walked up to the National Library to see some manuscripts. The Special Collections people had pulled out medieval manuscripts, as well as manuscripts from Ivar Aasen's (the creator and proponent of Nynorsk, the other written form of Norwegian) collection. It was an awesome presentation, and it was wonderful to see the many different manuscripts. 

We stopped in a bookstore on the way back, where I bought a copy of two of Max Manus' books, which are in Norwegian. Good incentive to become fluent in the language, no? We stopped at a nice bakery, where I bought a Kransakake ring and a chocolate muffin. We went back to the hotel, and then tried to stop into TGIFriday's and Hard Rock (where I bought some cool pins: A viking with a guitar, a folk dressed woman with guitar, and Thor playing the drums!) and even took the metro to Majorstuen (another part of town) to try and find a place to eat. We soon learned that, without reservations, it is near impossible to find a place for 12 people. Claudia, Kristiana and I went to Bambus, a Thai restaurant. I had a Chicken Curry (good, but not as good as the Hamlin's) and a Ringnes. We went back to the hotel, and I went online for awhile before bed.