Travel

Ok, now that I have a good and reliable internet connection, I can finally get this stuff down. I'm currently in Oslo, Norway, after 5 days in Reykjavik, Iceland. Getting there was quite the adventure, however. 

We left Seattle at 6:45 PM on the 8th. Our flight was 9 hours straight to Kastrup, Copenhagen, Denmark's International Airport. They had some Norwegian newspapers on the plane, so I started the flight by reading Aftenposten and Dagbladet, two of the big newspapers in Norway. I found out some interesting things, but I also saw a story about a Norwegian Sundance film called Død Snø, or Dead Snow. It's a movie where these friends go up to a cabin in North Norway, only to find that it was used by the Germans in World War II. And the Germans are still they, but they are in fact Nazi Zombies. It looks good, and I may have to go see it. Also, there is a movie out called Max Manus that is about the most well known resistance fighter in Norway, and I'm going to see that for sure. And it sounds like we are going to go see Kurt Blir Grusom, a children's movie based on a book that my Norwegian language class read. All in all it should be fun. After that, I watched a Danish movie about these kids, one of which is a Templar Knight, who solve some mystery, and then the movie Ghost Town. The rest of the flight was unsuccessfully trying to sleep, but all that mattered was that we made it to Copenhagen.

We landed, and had an 8 hour layover in Copenhagen, so we went into the center of town, walked to the harbor, and then had coffee at a little shop called Fruhaven, which is the Danish word for Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author, collected the story of the Little Mermaid and published it). Then we went to the Royal Palace, which was very beautiful, but it was dark, so we went back to the airport and waited for our plane. We flew Icelandair to Keyflavik, Iceland's International Airport, which is a three hour flight. We arrived at Keyflavik and took a bus to Reykjavik. By that time, it was either midnight or 1 am, but we hadn't eaten on the plane, so we ordered pizza. Split ten ways, I paid 890 ISK, which is about 7 dollars if my math is right (1 USD=approx. 125 ISK). The pizza was good, with a thinner crust than is usual in the US. Then I went to bed around 2 AM on Saturday the 10th, making for a very long few days.

I'm going to do my best to catch up on telling about Iceland in the next few days, but I'll leave you with this for now. I'm staying in the Hotel Munch in Oslo, which is very nice and is close to the main street in Oslo. I cannot wait to get started with things here in Oslo!