Almost home

Ok, so this year's trip is not documented as well as last year's.
Several days were skipped over, and they were generally the biggest parts (like the wedding!)

However, I'll be home soon and will just do my best to regale you with details and stories in person.

Basic information:
I'm alive, I'm safe, and I'm in a fabulous robe at the Radisson SAS hotel in Oslo.

We are living it up on my last night.
We didn't mean for luxury but stumbled into it and boy, are we glad we did!

We took the overnight train from Bergen to Oslo last nite after spending the day on the fijords.
Everything they say about the fijords is true. Absolutely stunning.

Upon our fijord boat return, it started to DOWNPOUR in the city of Bergen.
It finally happened, we had skipped it for *weeks* and the rain finally came.
Lucky for us (blessed), it occured after we had accomplished everything we set out to do.
We holed up in an Asian fusion restaurant for a quick late nite dinner before we boarded our sleeping car train.

The rain was shooting from the sky so we made a break for the train station; and arrived sopping wet. I looked my best, as always, as I had 5 layers on, and had tightly rolled up my jeans to my knees so they wouldn't drag in the puddles and be wet for the train ride. Luckily for me, I was wearing my black soccer socks and white heel-less tennies. So white slip-on shoes, black soccer socks, rolled jeans to my knees, 5 layers and the hood bustled around my face; I was the picture of a princess. Looking good is my motto. :)

We got on the train and found our sleeping car, no joke it was about 5 feet wide by 9 feet long.
BUT it came with a sink, ear plugs and 2 bottles of water.
We changed quickly and hopped into bed. The train left at 11:00 pm and was to arrive in Oslo at 6:30 am. Chris fell alseep quickly but I read my book for about an hour (Fried Green Tomatos - never knew it was based on a book before).

We had booked our hotel the night before after deliberating about cost, location and type.
We had seen Radisson SAS hotels ALL over the cities/countries we had visited and so decided to try one. SCORE!
Not only was the hotel pretty much connected to the train station so that the walk was probably less than 100 meters in the POURING rain; but they let us check in early at 6:45 am and they had an AMAZING breakfast spread for us to conqueor.

We are on the 17th floor, overlooking the city, in a beautiful room with a huge bath tub, white bathrobes, heated towel racks and floor, and now lounging until the rain (if) clears.

P-I-M-P.

We had hoped for sun in Oslo so we could wear our sundress and shirts one last time (since for us, Bergen had had nice weather) but this will TOTALLY do.
If it stops, we will take another stroll around town, check out the Vigeland Sculpture Garen.

OR

we'll lay in our robes, watching tv and eating.

How can we lose? :)