They live in a town near Oslo. This is the view from their house - gorgeous, right?
Today we went into Oslo to do a bit of touring. Our first stop was the castle.
Norway elected its most recent dynasty. That's right, elected. They apparently have quite a bit of popular support, even tho the prince and princess are kind of … unique. (Princess Märtha Louise has founded an engelskole, where people learn to talk to angels as a form of medicine; and Prince Haakon married a single mother with possible drug history.)
Here's the group of us. Eline isn't in the picture, because she just got home this evening from a rock festival.
Mira, who's five and still insanely rambunctious, also likes ice cream ;)
We went to Vigeland Park, which is known for sculptor Gustav Vigeland's numerous nude statues of people expressing the gamut of emotion at various stages in life.
more Vigeland
Magnus was more mature about it than I was, I think.
It is very pretty, huh? We had brunch here (lefse!).
Then we went to the new opera house, which was coincidentally built by the same architecture firm (Snøhetta) as the library in Alexandria. It is likewise one of my favorite buildings ever.
The walls of it are covered in braille. (photo with Ingvild and Magnus)
the family :)
Magnus the Magnificent did some spectacular magic tricks with his bottle of water.
more opera house
And I'm here until Monday around 5:00 pm, so expect at least one more post about Norway!
