Today was my favorite day so far in Norway. I don't usually like museums that much but seriously in Norway museums are no joke. This morning me and Anthony woke up and went to the viking museum. The ships were from the 1100's. Any place that has historical artifacts more than a thousand years old is amazing to me. In Oregon the oldest things we have are from the 1800's, and I'm from the first city established on the west coast.
The Norwegian folk museum was even better. I mean, its not a museum like where you look at stuff in glass and don't really care as you wander from room to room. They actually transported houses about 800 years old and lots of buildings from all over Norway and combined them all into a tiny village. Not only that, there are actual farm animals and people dressed in traditional clothing farming and walking around. My favorite part of the day was definitely the wooden stave church (seen below). It's amazing to think about these as some of the first protestant churches in the world. Most of them have been burned down now. Sooo beautiful.
In the 1960's farm house i found a cat, which actually scared me because I swear it was an alien or a rat at first by my feet. His name was MONS, so cute. But seriously, a Norwegian farm cat named MONS?
At the end of the day we took a boat to one of the islands. It was really peaceful. Then we played soccer with every vietnamese person living in Norway.
A+ day!
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