Norsk Folk Museum

Its the weekend again and so what do we do? We visit museums. We wanted to visit the Folk Museum last weekend but was too tired. And so we decided to go this Sunday. But on Saturday evening we discovered that our monthly train pass has expired. We thought we had validated on the 10th instead of the 8th and so we have yet to get our new Sept pass. Oh no. How? The train pass will enable us to get free ferry ride. Well... the system pretty much work on integrity here and for the 1 month that I've been here I've only encountered the ticket inspector once. And I figured there is a high chance they won't be working on Sunday and so we decide to take the risk and happily board the train with our expired pass. We were damn nervous about it and we were crossing our fingers for both the ride to and fro. We even carefully calculated that we should sit in the last cabin since the station near where we stayed is the 2nd station so they would have already checked the first station. (They check 1 cabin per station).

Onboard the ferry there we bought 2 adult and 2 barn (children) tickets. HAHA! Yes we're bad. But we're poor students. Anyway we seriously looked and dress like barns la. The barns here dress so maturely. And their barns means 16/15 yrs and below. And on the ferry back, nobody came to sell the tickets to us and so we had a free ride back! We roam around the Nationaltheatret area while waiting for the ferry and we found the Nobel Peace Center, the place where Nobel prizes are presented!!

Nobel Peace Centre. Their values - "Commitment . Hope . Broadmindedness"

We're listening to people all over the world giving their answers to questions such as "What is the opposite of conflict?", "Why do people continue to believe in peace?". Well, we never understood what was said for we never found an answer in English.

The ferry that brought us to the museum.

Shopping centers by the waters

Fortress. One of our next weekend activity.

Norsk Folk Museum

There was a horse-carriage parade going on.

Beautiful roses climbing up the walls.

Nice maple leaves on the wall. Some of them are turning orangey-red. Autumn is coming!

Entrance to the French/English Garden.

The school in the olden days. We realized houses here like to have grass patches on their roofs. I wonder why.

The inside - classroom.

The Stave Church. It is still in use and we happen to see a service going on while we were there.

This kid isn't scared of the goats at all. I wanted to feed them but I don't dare and so I used a stick. lolz

Managed to catch a folkdance performance there as well. Brought back the good old sec sch days. Those dreadful folkdance lesson that brought back wonderful memories now. Some of the dance performances were what I had learnt in school! The boy on the left is very cute, very active boy. Too bad didn't get to take pic with him.

The horse that turns his face away when we tried to touch him BUT stay there enjoying itself when some ang-mohs touch it. Either it don't like us or we don't know how to handle a horse. ahah. We're city kids after all.

Happen to have a Teeth exhibition going on as well so we popped in to take a look.

Different kind of toothbrushes.

Syringes in the early days...looks intimidating.

The very first dentist chair in the olden days.

Next evolution.

Finally something that resembles the modern day dentist room.

In the olden days, people on Norway had their teeth plucked by the blacksmith as doctors are hard to find. Omg.

Bridge anyone?? Slowly count the number of diamonds, clubs, hearts and spades for cards in their earlier version has no numbers on it!

Some olden days game.

Dolls from around the world.

Guess what this is.

Its a Semi Turf Hut that people lived in in the olden days.

See the fur on the two sides... that's where you sleep and in the middle is the fire. So don't toss and turn if you don't want to end up being roasted!

House by the sea. How I wish this is my house! Fantastic view everyday.