Ok. Got it sorted out. After Vigeland Park, we went to the Norwegian Folk Museum. This is an outdoor display of houses and other buildings typical of Norwegian life through the ages. Most were original and some were several hundred years old. Since they are made of heavy thick slabs of wood, they are quite sturdy.

From there we went to the Viking Ship Museum. This was really interesting!! The ships in the museum were burial sites. The Vikings built very light weight ships. This aided them in their raids, but also allowed them to pull the ships up onto shore to use as burial sites. These were covered in blue clay which made an airtight preservative. The ships are estimated to be from the 900's. One ship held a woman and her servant. They know which is which by the color of the clothes they were wearing. The other ship held a man who probably was a nobleman.

We drove through town and had many more buildings pointed out, city hall, opera house, etc.

Each of these Norse capitals are situated on a fjord or on islands amidst the Baltic Sea. These were seafaring people who depended on boats to get around. There's a bridge between Denmark and Sweden, finally making it possible to go between countries without boats.

In Copenhagen, Denmark we went on a tour about the Jews in Denmark and how they have become a part of the population at times that they were segregated in other countries. The first Jews came to Denmark in 1622. After a ride through town and seeing various sites, we came to the Danish Resistance Museum and saw how they resisted the Nazis in WW2 and saved over 7,000 Jewish Danish citizens by taking them by boat to Sweden. This was Denmark's answer to Hitler's Jewish Solution.

We then went to the Danish Jewish Museum. This was built as a tribute to the Jewish escape to Sweden. The architect deliberately built the building to simulate the feel of being on a small boat at sea. I don't know how he did it, but you felt like you were unsteady. Amazing!!!

We also drove by the Christian Church that sheltered the Torah during the Nazi occupation.

After a day at sea to recuperate, we are presently in Helsinki, Finland. Yesterday we were in Stockholm, Sweden. I'll tell you about that in a day or so. Don't want to overload your reading.

TaTA for now.