Another gray day in Oslo, but rain held off, so we headed to the ferry docks. We sailed over to Bygdoy, (15min) home to the Norwegian Folk Museum, the Viking Ship Museum, Kon Tiki Museum, & a couple more we didn’t get to. The Folk Museum has a reconstructed stave church that was rescued & reassembled/restored. That & the other structures show the design needed to survive the weather for the early settlers. Neat story of where Norway’s famous sweaters came from, & not as expected. Knitting was a European skill someone learned & brought home. The sweaters were designed & produced by a fashion diva/flight attendant who turned them into an industry. Who would have thought!

The Viking Museum has a reassembled ship & other objects that were literally dug up & put back together. Amazing how archeologists reconstructed these huge ships, wooden carts, & ship figureheads.

By the time we left the Kon Tiki display (Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa wood raft experiment), it was raining again. After lunch, staying in seemed preferable to the trip to Vigeland Sculpture Park we had planned. With an early early (3:30) start for Saturday, we called it a day!