As many of you know, I have a very skill of getting lost well to add to this list of places that I have gotten lost in that is it near impossible to get lost in, please add Holmestrand, Norway a 2 street town! Sad. Long story short I walked in the wrong direction trying to reach the train station which lead to me catching the 2:20pm train to Oslo today instead of the 1:20pm train. But that was just the beginning. Once I arrived in Oslo I was trying to find the trolley station to buy a day pass so that I could go to the Norway Folk Museum and then to check out this supposedly "huge" climbing gym, which turned out to be smaller than smallest of the gyms that I normally go to (Great Western Power Company in Oakland).
The train ride to Oslo is only an hour so I made it to the Oslo central train station by 3:20ish. As i neither understand nor speak Norwegian I was using signs a my guide to find the trolley station and ended up in what I am now going to call the Maze Mall of Death. To explain it is a 5 level Mall that apparently if you go out one door on to the street and then in a different door you can't get back to where you started....this lead to an hour of Katie being lost in a Mall. I finally asked someone how to get back to the train station and then quite easily figured out where I had gone wrong to end up in the mall in the first place., one wrong turn sheesh!
Now at 4pm I finally got my trolley pass and located the correct trolley to get to the Folk Museum but as it was 4pm I figured that I may not have enough time to spend there and I really didn't want to feel rushed so I decided to do that another day and go to the climbing gym instead.
I jumped on the trolley and head to the climbing gym. It wasn't until I got to Vigelandspaken, the park with all the funny statues of the children that Lisa took me to last time I was in Norway, that I realized I wasn't going in the correct direction, that in fact I was going in the entirely opposite direction that I needed to be going in :/. I got off the trolley and then asked the driver how I get to the stop I needed to go to. He said just get back on this trolley and it will take you there. GUHHHH! Ok.
I did finally get to the climbing gym and got to play around there for about 1:30hrs. When I went to get dressed I realized that the i had lost the keys to the lock that I had bought when I came in, so I had to have the girl at the door cut off my brand new lock, oy!
Thankfully that was the end of this very adventurous day and i feel very very comfortable getting around Oslo now after having been lost there most of the day. :) So when i go back later this trip I will know my way around quite well, I think.
The train ride to Oslo is only an hour so I made it to the Oslo central train station by 3:20ish. As i neither understand nor speak Norwegian I was using signs a my guide to find the trolley station and ended up in what I am now going to call the Maze Mall of Death. To explain it is a 5 level Mall that apparently if you go out one door on to the street and then in a different door you can't get back to where you started....this lead to an hour of Katie being lost in a Mall. I finally asked someone how to get back to the train station and then quite easily figured out where I had gone wrong to end up in the mall in the first place., one wrong turn sheesh!
Now at 4pm I finally got my trolley pass and located the correct trolley to get to the Folk Museum but as it was 4pm I figured that I may not have enough time to spend there and I really didn't want to feel rushed so I decided to do that another day and go to the climbing gym instead.
I jumped on the trolley and head to the climbing gym. It wasn't until I got to Vigelandspaken, the park with all the funny statues of the children that Lisa took me to last time I was in Norway, that I realized I wasn't going in the correct direction, that in fact I was going in the entirely opposite direction that I needed to be going in :/. I got off the trolley and then asked the driver how I get to the stop I needed to go to. He said just get back on this trolley and it will take you there. GUHHHH! Ok.
I did finally get to the climbing gym and got to play around there for about 1:30hrs. When I went to get dressed I realized that the i had lost the keys to the lock that I had bought when I came in, so I had to have the girl at the door cut off my brand new lock, oy!
Thankfully that was the end of this very adventurous day and i feel very very comfortable getting around Oslo now after having been lost there most of the day. :) So when i go back later this trip I will know my way around quite well, I think.
