Tour Continues With "The Farfs"

Dinner out with Far Far and Far Mor

Like I mentioned in the last post, the next part of our journey was up to northern Sweden (through Norway) with Matt's parents, Wayne and Ellyn (also known as Far Far and Far Mor, or more commonly referred to as "The Farfs"). We left Lund early in the morning and started our all day trek through the rain to Oslo. Traveling along the highways in Sweden is not at all like in the US. There are plenty of nice rest stops, most with nice picnic tables and a toilet. Sometimes you'll hit a place with a gas station and/or restaurant that serves light sandwiches and coffee. There are no drive-through coffee shanties. Once in a while you might run into a Burger King, but that is my absolute least favorite place to go! It is kind of assumed that most travelers travel with their own food and coffee. We've been accustomed to this since arriving in Sweden in January so we were prepared and packed a lunch and snack to take along the way.

In Oslo we stayed at a hotel with adjoining rooms, which was very nice. It gave Matt and I a chance to leave the girls with Wayne and Ellyn while we went out for the evening. One evening Matt and I visited Vigeland Sculpture Park and that was amazing! By the way, the pictures taken below were taken after 10:00 at night!

This one reminded me of Sonja

Together we all took the ferry over to Bygdøy and saw awesome viking ships at the Viking Ship Museum ("it houses three ships found in large burial mounds in the Oslo fjord region. The best-preserved Viking ships in existence, each contained a wealth of material, both decorative and utilitarian, dating back up to 1200 years").


and the Norwegian folk museum.


We also visited the Kon-Tiki museum.


Linnea and the Farfs continued on to the Fram Museum "which preserves the polar exploration ship Fram that between 1893 and 1925, sailed further north and further south than any other surface vessel".


Following our two nights in Oslo we had another long day of driving ahead of us as we headed north to Trondheim and hopped on over to Storlien, Sweden where we were staying in a cabin at a wintertime resort for a week.