We've been here for a whopping day and a half but we all agree it feels like a week since we left. We lived an awful lot in that first 24 hours. We drove four hours to the airport (while so stressed/worried we would miss our flight that dinner consisted of a gas station lunchable) then flew 3 hours on a plane so tight that our knees held our chins, took a taxi at 2AM to a second airport (where our driver nearly vaporized a wandering capybara on the road: check ou...

We haven't had all that much to keep us busy over the past few days; we've basically just been killing time and waiting to get on our last flight of the trip. After our very short stint on Oslo we got on another long-haul train to Stockholm (no icy mountain views this time), got on the now familiar metro to our hostel and took our requisite nap of the day. It's pretty sad really, but we keep looking at the prices of food and things and thinking "Wow, it's so chea...

This morning was our only full day in Oslo, and I have to say I'm glad I didn't expect all that much. Just about any city would've been a let down after the past couple of days in the mountains, but Oslo seemed particularly charmless. We did visit some pretty great museums, but overall the architecture and streets were bland and underwhelming. When we walked through Prague for the first time each of us almost held our breath in disbelief at what we were seeing, b...

We did a LOT of bouncing around yesterday, but every step was worth it. We took a train to a bus to a ship to a train to another train. And we never got lost!!! Miraculous, I know. The cruise was supposed to be the amazing part so I had no expectations for the train or bus on the way there. I was blown away by both. Once we got to the mountains there was snow everywhere, but you could wear shorts and a t-shirt outside it was so warm. That meant there was a lot of...

Our flight yesterday went pretty great (Norwegian Air is aMAzing) and we got some really incredible views from the plane window. At one point we were flying over a massive glacier and could see nothing but jagged snow-capped mountains. When we got closer to the fjords we saw dozens of huge creatures moving in the water, breaking the surface and sinking again. Chelsea and I still can't decide if they were dolphins or whales (they were all spread pretty far apart s...