Day 13 / 14 : Oslo

  Started day 13 morning with the fortress.  It is right on the harbor.  It has an outer wall that use to have a moat which is now a road but inside the outer wall there was an inner keep.  Unfortunately it is in use by the government or military still so you could only walk around it.

This next picture you can kinda see the different stones used to build the fortress.  Guess a long time ago there was a real old one with big rocks.  Then it was enhanced with slightly smaller rocks.  Finally there are orange/red bricks from the last enhancement.

Next stop was Vingland Gardens.  This is a very large park that felt like being in Central Park in New York except this place had some very strange statues.  Basically the Park is designed to display the artists many sculptures.  The most interesting is this angry baby.  We saw him on t-shirts and all kind of things around town.  Apparently rubbing his hand must mean something, cause it was very shiny.

Where the angry baby was there were a bunch of other sculptures.  They are all adults and kids in different acrobatic poses.  Here are a few that stood out.

At the end of one side of a bridge that had a lot of these statues there were two pillars on the one end. I think its a lizard or dragon and a person.  Its rather odd like the others.

After the bridge was a large fountain.  Around the fountain were a bunch of trees with kids playing in the branches.

Next section of the garden was a raised area with a giant pillar of bodies.  Not much else to describe it.   At the top of the raised area there were gates with figures on the iron gates.

Around the center sculpture were a bunch of couple in various acrobatic poses.

Cool looking sun dial that doesn't do much in the winter.

  Day 14 we went over to the Natural History Museum.  Outside there was a dragon made out of rubbish.  This kinda followed the theme on the inside.  A lot of the stuffed animals were in their natural habitat with typical trash laying around to show what people shouldn't do.

There were some neat fossils.  This was a giant shell thing with a number of small ones.

Apparently this is a real dear somewhere.  Those fangs make this thing look like some mutant out of a strange movie.

Walking around you always see random churches and old buildings.  After all the walking around we took the Train over to Stockholm.  Last stop on this trip.