Good day sunshi... well, still a good day

For some reason I couldn't get to sleep last night, so I finally ended up falling asleep at 4 in the morning. Feh.

So my day started out pretty late. The first thing out of the gate I noticed a sign on the door leading outside. Apparently the city will be turning off the water tomorrow, so I can shower tonight - but tomorrow is out and the water will be back Friday. Which wouldn't be that bad except I have one change of clothes left, so I would have to recycle on Friday. So I spent some time looking for a place to toss my laundry. They have a place a couple blocks away that is a combination cafe, laundromat, and small library. Sweet! But I will have to go to bed on time and wake early to get a day out of it. Also I'll need to stockpile some water to take a sponge bath tomorrow. No biggie.

I then took the tram to the waterfront and from there got a ferry over to the Maritime/Fram/Kon-Tiki museums. The maritime museum was interesting in showing the evolution of the ships from dugout canoes to the 15-16th century ships. They went later but it just wasn't all that interesting to me. I've been to other maritime museums and anything past the 15th century or so is all the same across the cultures really. The ferry over had some really cool views though.

The Fram Museum was built around one of the first ice breaking ships built in order to get close to the north pole. The entire ship and the tools used were inside a giant museum. That was actually pretty seriously cool. When they went on the expedition, there was a large chance they weren't coming back. It was the first ship of its type. They hadn't thought of anything like making an icebreaker previously. And while it wasn't a "true" one, it was the start of the design.

The next one the list was the Kon-Tiki Museum. I knew it was going to be cheesy, and it was. But it was pretty cool in its own right. There were two ships they built to prove that the Polynesian Islands could have been settled by South Americans and that South America could have been populated by Africa via reed ships. The archaeologists at the time said that is was ridiculous, so both the Ra (actually only the Ra II made it) and the Kon-Tiki were built and sailed using ancient methods to show that it could have been done.

And there was a film and description of the trip, yada yada. Still, all in all it was pretty cool. I was initially planning on getting some tiki stuff for folks but the gift shop kinda sucked and nothing there wouold travel well (I still have 5 more weeks).

I was planning on hitting the Viking ship museum, but fate was against me. I was using the time on my camera to judge what bus to get back. When I got on the bus, I realized I hadn't set the clock settings on the phone forward yet. Whooops. So I didn't have time. Instead I ended up having to get off somewhat close to Statute Park and wandering my way through upper middle class (though pretty much everything here is). Grabbing a pizza at a local joint, some groceries, and heading back for a night of early sleep and a good book.

A full size Bocci court in the park. Plus I saw a Tesla S series with charging station on the street. I've been surprised how many electric charging stations I've seen in Oslo. Pretty cool.