Day 4

Day 4. I woke up and followed the tourists the same.

Have no idea where they are walking to. They werent going to the train station.


In for a nature ride I guess.


Erik said the more rims of lines, the older the wood.

Along the way, there was a farm with horses.


After walking for like 1hr +, we came to this. I will find out soon, it was actually a frozen lake.

Frozen lake.

Underneath the thin layer of snow, is ice.

They skate on the lake, with a baby tramp.

The german couple.

My snow angel.






Goodbye lake, they are going higher up the mountain.

Stalactites (or mites)



The hair strand that's sticking out of her hair, is frozen.

Going to the cabin for a coffee. The Europeans are coffee addicts always.


Fireplace to warm my hands.

The journey to the cabin took us past this area. Now back, I had to walk past this huge area again. I thought I was going to die. The germans walk really really fast. Today, I realised, army boots are thoroughly bad for snow. I fell a few times. My hiking shoes are much better.


This picture of the frozen lake is glorious. Go on, click on it. You'll see the moon at 4pm, the polar star, and a pack of birds blending well in the sky.


Some people started a fire near the lake.

Day 3. There's no snow, but its -16 degrees.

Day 3. I followed the tourists. They were going to the opera house. The supposed esplanade of Norway, only that its much worse looking.


This area is closed in winter. They say its open in summer for pple to climb up and dont know what.


Inside the Opera House (below)


After the opera house, we went to the city for a walk. And past the national theatre skating area, and went to the castle of the king and queen.

Oslo Cathedral




Parliament House

This lion was outside parliament house.

National theatre

National Theatre Ice Skating area with music from the center thing.



Across the skating area, is the University of Oslo Law Campus. Kinda like NUS where the main campus and law is separated. And incidentally, the law campus in oslo has a colonial theme as well. Really like NUS.


Castle


Guard Duty HAHAHAHA

Nobel Peace Center

I saw this from far while walking in the city. I wondered if the tourists was heading there. It looked magical from here. I was soon to find out, they were heading there indeed :)

But first, they headed to get some coffee. The cafe by aker brygge that we went in apparently, just closed. I checked my watch and it was probably only abt 3pm. I wondered why they are so slack. So they headed to macdonalds and I waited impatiently for them to finish, I cant help but take another shot at the Aker castle from Macdonalds. It was pretty dark already. Sun is setting at 3pm. Please hurry up.

Finally to the castle. The first thing I saw was this statue that a few pple crowded round. I went to see it and it says Franklin Roosevelt. Neither me nor the germans have any idea in the world, why Franklin Roosevelt's statue is there.












End of Castle. Its already dark. And its only 4pm. -_-" Stupid winter.
So they got home, and prepared New Year Countdown Celebration.


New Year Countdown celebration was awesome. I had this for dinner. The yellow thing in the center is the famous German dish - Auflauf (bake noodle in cheese & vege) I also had Tortilla, which is spanish dish. Its egg in vege & alcohol, and roast it till a brown. But my favourite is Auflauf. The Cheese makes everything damn sweet and nice.


This was for desert. Its Bratapfel. Roasted apple with whatever filling that's inside.

Ang Mohs, really can drink. Some of the drink are really strong.


And they countdown according to Spanish tradition. We each take 12 grapes. We start eating the grapes when the clock hits 12. Then, we open champange and celebrate. Fireworks here go one round the city. It lasted for 30mins. The germans complained that its too short, cos they had it for 1 hour.