Norway Day 1&2

Last May, Adam and I traveled to Europe with Adam's family. We've been wanting to visit Paris forever so we finally did it! We found cheap tickets to Oslo so we decided to explore Norway as well. 

Here are Adam and I on our flight to Oslo

We arrived in Oslo in the evening, got to our Airbnb, got dinner, and went to bed. Here we are at our first dinner in Norway, learning how expensive everything is! $$$

The next day we went to the train station to do the Norway in a Nutshell Tour. It's a tour of Norway that goes from Oslo to Bergen and you see lots of pretty sights along the way.

The views were gorgeous from the train... from lakes to snowy mountains...

and enjoying some yummy food on the train

We experienced a little BIG mix-up on our train where we couldn't get off the train and totally missed our next connection (long story! But basically the train doors weren't open long enough for us to get off), but we finally made it to Bergen! Because of this mix-up, we missed our boat tour through the fjords!!! Well, 2/3 of our party was able to get off the train but the rest of us were stuck on the train! We just had to roll with it and look into going on a different fjord boat tour (which we did another day).

After a long, uphill walk to our Airbnb we settled in and then went out to explore Bergen. Here are Anne and I in front of one of the shops. You can see how old the buildings are by the crooked doorway behind us!

We then went to ride Floibanen Funicular which takes you to the top of the mountain. Getting ready to go up...

on our way up...

and views from the top!

We then grabbed dinner and went to bed. The next day we did a little more exploring around Bergen. We loved all the cute little houses with painted doors!

 We went to a few museums and Bryggen--which is their old historic downtown area. The movie Frozen was inspired by this cute little town and you can see the similarities.

We also walked along the marina...

and grabbed a hot dog for lunch and a Norweigan Pancake for dessert!

We then caught a flight to Stavanger and then drove to Tau. We grabbed dinner and settled in for the night. Here's the sunset view from our Airbnb, which was right on the water :)