August 6, 2017
The trains were not running on Sunday and neither were we [although Daniel & Kim run a lot of miles most days], so we had to take a bus since there are five of us plus baggage. Max & Dylan have been very helpful with my bags. Max picks up my 40 pound suitcase like it’s a bucket of water. This is going to be fun but strange for me. I haven’t been on a family vacation for over 50 years! [I’m not counting all of our campouts at Ravenwood.]
I’ve mostly lived alone for the past 30 years, so touring Norway and Lithuania with a family of four is a new experience. To be fair, I have known them for over 20 years. My swains [the teenage boys] are a lot of fun. We tell 6th grade jokes to each other, and they are both very interested in Norse & Greek mythology, Tolkien, etc. We were tired and cranky early Sunday, but managed to eventually find our tram and arrive at our gorgeous flat in East Oslo. Our hostess was kind enough to meet us at the stop and lug me and the luggage 400 meters uphill. I don’t suffer from jetlag, but we were all out of whack. I woke up at midnight and decided to take a nice, hot bath. We had a two-storey apartment, and I was in the bedroom downstairs. The next morning after Daniel returned from his run he asked, “Why were you taking a bath at midnight?”
“Because I could!”
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