The Adventure Has Begun

Well, our trip is underway! The flight from Seattle to Keflavik wasn't too bad. We were so far north and also so high in elevation that it was daylight all night long and too hard to sleep. (Multiple screaming babies didn't help either!) It was raining pretty good in Keflavik, which you wouldn't think is a big deal on a layover, but to board our plane to Oslo we had go out on the Tarmac and walk up the stairs.....in the rain. Thankfully I am from Seattle and it didn't faze me!

The one problem that the rain made, which we found out later, is that all of our luggage became a little damp; this must have happened when they were transferring our luggage. Not a huge deal, but we had to take a lot of our clothes out right away to dry them when we got to our hotel in Oslo.

We had a little delay getting off the plane in Oslo. The front door we used to board was having problems, so we had to wait for them to find a stairway and bring it to the back door. The delay did not hurt us too much as we were sitting in the back of the plane and were able to deplane pretty quickly. We were a bit confused with the whole customs procedure though. Maybe we are getting too used to the post 9/11 U.S. They didn't ask us a single question in Iceland, they just stamped our passports, and then we grabbed our luggage in Oslo when we got there and just walked right out of the airport. Not complaining, just thought it was a little odd.

We took the train into downtown Oslo to walk to our hotel. Note to self: Little maps make distances look shorter than they actually are! The "three" blocks were pretty long blocks. In all actuality it was not that far, but carrying/rolling our bags down Karl Johan Gate, their really busy main area, made it seem quite far.

After checking in to our hotel we wandered down the street and ate some dinner and went through some shops. Our whole goal was to stay up "late" enough to try and get our bodies on Norwegian time. At 6:00pm we have had enough; it is now 9:00 in the morning for our bodies! I am trying to stay up later to help out my sleep schedule, so I decided to post an update. I don't know how often I will post updates, but this is a good start!

(I am posting this using an app on my iPhone after well over 24 tiring hours without sleep. So please forgive any typos or rambling!)