Day 8

We got off the boat from Norway into the car rental place. There were black ants running all over the ground when they went into little holes we covered them up once we got in the car we drove to Hadrian's wall. It's a pretty cool place, it s ruins of a fort and boy are the bathrooms cool. At the gift shop I bought a book about roman soldiers my brother bought a bow and arrow set and I don't think my sister got anything when we finished that we went to a hotel and I can't remember what it's like.------Christopher

Day 7 of our trip

After staying in Oslo for 3days, we went on a train. Before the train started we went to go get some fast food. When we got on my rolling suitcase broke its handle from the tape (my suitcase had broken its handle before) there were a couple of friendly seniors who fixed my suitcase. We went to the entrance of a tunnel and we waited forever for the other train to pass then a very fast train came out and we started rolling. (you know what this means) We went in and it took 15 minutes until there was a station and we only saw daylight in short periods of time. Then it was the end of the tunnel and we arrived at the station .Then we chased the train to the end of the station then we watched the train leave... ...BACK INTO THE TUNNEL!!!!???? so I was wrong in the last sentence it wasn't the end so then we went on another train and we saw all sorts of beautiful falls. We stopped for pictures at a wooden platform. There was a waterfall up close. Just about when we were bored of taking pictures and we were ready to get back on the train and wait for the train to start rolling we saw a beautiful singer come up from behind some rocks. She sang into a microphone. So we stayed there for quite awhile. Then about 3 minutes before the train left the wooden platform we got back on and went through more beautiful waterfalls. We got off the train and waited for the ferry boat. On the way Dad and I went to a mini mall. On the way back to the ferry landing we saw that the ferry was there so we climbed on board. It was a long ferry boat. Luckily my Dad had bought snacks at the mini mall. He brought some bananas, apples and raisins. There were a ton of seagulls so we threw some food to them. When we got there, we got on a bus. We went up the hill very smoothly until we saw an old narrow trail. The tunnel was short enough for a car, but not for a bus so we went slowly up the old narrow trail. We went very slowly until we got to the top and back on the highway. When we got off the bus we had some dinner at a restaurant near the train station. We had some yummy fries then we tried some ketchup and it was horrible. So then we got on another train that took us to our hostel which we thought would be a hostel. Some of the people working there gave us their room. So we got settled in and slept nicely.
-by Christopher

Day 6 of our trip

Today we went to a World War 2 museum. It was fun they had models of parts of world war two. They also had a gazillion guns all in one room! There was dulled barbed wire. It was the resistance museum. Then we went to a castle with a ton of big rooms. It used to be the royal castle and its where the kings of Norway are buried. We watched the changing of the guards. Then we went to a military museum with a real torpedo and more models. There was a wall which was the border between Germany and another country, the other country side had graffiti and McDonald's fries box, Germany's side had barbed wire we had a great time.

Day 5 of our trip

Today we went to three museums about boats: the Kon-tiki, Polar Ship Fram, and the Norwegian Maritime Museum. They were very fun. Andrew had daddy go under one of those air-vents and then Andrew dropped a stuffed animal down there and daddy caught it then daddy threw it up from the bottom on the deck.

It was very fun. We had lunch at burger king. There were super small chicken nuggets. Want to know how expensive Norway is? $1.50 per nugget! Then it rained so hard while we were going to a ski jump. We went to lots of stairs. No one was there so we had to find all the stairs and elevators ourselves. It was so cloudy we couldn't see the ground below us. There was a gift shop where they sold Viking hats. It was still raining hard and we had to wait for the tram half a hour! We had to wait in the rain.

---by christopher

day 4 of our trip

We went and saw the changing of the guards at a museum were there were crowns of old Swedish kings (no wonder there were guards). Then we got on a train and I met a boy named nic..nicu??? OK but I do know that a good nickname for him would be nicke. So we made friends and had a lot of fun. He likes Nintendo. Hey! Did you know that there are zombies in zelda? I mean besides the fairies bringing you back to life and stuff, you know what I mean? Well anyways we had a lot of fun. He got off the train before I did so I got pretty bored the rest of the trip. When we got off the train at the end of the line (we usually do except on subways) we went to stay in a nice house with bedrooms for guests. We had a lot of fun playing with the kids there.

day 3 of our trip

We stopped in Stockholm, Sweden. We got on a little ferry and it always reminded me of a Russian bus exept a lot less crowded that's for sure. Today we went to the zoo. It was fun and we saw lots of animals including foxes, Black Bears, wolverines, House cats!, Guinea pigs,and goats. The goats were very cute and they were in the petting zoo. We went to a lot of museums and we went to a museum that gave me the chills. It was about the ship called the Wasa. It had the skeletons of the drowned sailors. It was really spooky. Then we went back to our hotel. On the way there were some weird machines. Daddy said one of them he really hated because he said that it reminded him of some sort of butt picking-machine. Then we arived at the hotel and went to bed.

day 2 of our trip

We step out of the train into familiar Helsinki (familiar of course becouse we went on a visa trip here about a year ago). I had to push Katie (my 4 year-old sister who rode in the stroller most of the way). Well I was sure suprised when my dad said we were not going ever in a building we went on a little ferry boat to an island that had all these cool cannons and stuff.
On the way back we saw these two huge cruise ships. I said it sure would be cool if we went on that red one and you know what? We did! There were lots of things to do onboard. We looked at the sea, we ate at all you-can-eat-restaurants until our stomachs exploded, we read Calvin and Hobbes until we died of laughter. It was such a good day!