Oslo, Norway – 06/25

(Michelle) Rachel and Andy headed up north on Monday, and we booked reservations on the overnight train to Copenhagen. TJ and I then went to the fort where we found another military focused museum on the Norwegian resistance to the German invasion. This museum was not focused specifically on the Jewish deportation, but just the overall occupation and what people in Norway were trying to do to fight it. After that, we took a long walk to the Sculpture Gardens. This place was cool (Rachel – I am so sorry you missed it… stupid rain). It had a central statue that was a mixture of intermingled bodies and then it had block like statues of different human poses 3 to a row coming down from it in all directions. While TJ and I did make silly poses with a lot of the statues, they were covering a wide span of human emotions and it was a very interesting set up. There were more statues in other parts of the garden as well, following a similar theme (human emotions) but they looked less like grey blocks as in the main sculpture area.

(TJ) If you go to Oslo see the sculpture garden, some of

the coolest statues that I have seen. There are statues of men wrestling men, women wrestling women, man throwing woman by the hair, man throwing babies. All of the statues are naked. They also have some incredible iron gates that have very intricate designs to them.

(Michelle) On a side note, Oslo is a very expensive city.