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> July 11th -12th - Arrival in Oslo, Norway
Maggie_Kane
post Jul 14 2006, 06:04 AM
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Today we get onboard a plane in Boston. This sound simple, but with so much scientific gear, it was a big deal! We had to move the boxes and bags around into buses, onto carts, into the airport and then get everything checked. This took a lot of coordination, strength and patients!

Our Great Pile of Luggage

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We Get Some Help With our Luggage

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Then we flew through the night to Norway. On the way, we stopped in Reykjavik, Iceland! It was really neat to wake up in the middle of the night and look out the window to a pale pink sky. Since we had been traveling north most of the night, we had reached a latitude where the sun really doesn’t set at this time of year. This was a really fun stop and we began to see how different things could be from the US. Some of the airport employees zoomed around on big, smooth, silent scooters. The Icelanders seemed to dress very well and looked really snappy on their scooters as they whizzed over the beautiful wooden floors of the airport. We then flew the rest of the way to Oslo, in Norway.

After 10 hours of traveling, we were all tired but also stiff from sitting, and we chose to spend the day we had in Oslo walking around the parks of this beautiful city. We went to Frogner Park, where there were hundreds of sculptures of people adorning the bridges and posed in interesting ways. The neatest thing about these sculptures is that they show regular people caught in regular moments of life, comforting and playing with one another. There were many that represented mothers or fathers with children, and I found those really beautiful.

The Group at the Sculpture Park
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We also walked past the King’s palace and saw the changing of the guards who were very serious young men with long black feathery tassels on their hats, rifles and tall black boots. I find Oslo to be an attractive city, with lovely old buildings, lots of polite and stylish people and appealing common spaces to walk and sit.

A View of an Oslo Street
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There are very few cars there and many people ride community bikes. These bikes are simply picked up from a nearby rack when you want to get somewhere, and left on a rack for someone else to use when you are done. Those that don’t ride bikes, walk or take public transport like light rail or bus. I did not see any overweight people in Oslo.


Research Question of the day: what is the longitude and latitude of Oslo, Norway?
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