Yee haaaw!
Yeap, the alarm went off waaaaay too early...!
But! We had to get up and get ready! and at 6:22am we took the bus down town to Knutpunkten, bus station.
We went for breakfast McToast at McDonald's and then headed for the bus.

It departed in time at 7:15 am, and arrived at Oslo Gallerian at 2pm...
That is one looooong bus ride!
One I have been on many many times, but it was so much more fun this time in good company! :)
We ended up sleeping quite a few hours though!

When we arrived in Oslo, we went straight to the hostel (Sentrum Pensjonat)...
Which I don't have many good things to say about... Next time we'll stay at some other place.... ANY other place!
The staff was rude and boring, the rooms didn't have Norweigan television, just a TV and a DVD player (you could borrow movies for free though... !) the fridge was kind of working on and off.. and you could smoke inside (not in the rooms though) and the whole place smelled of smoke anyway.... Even the staff was sitting on the stairs, smoking... Y U C K !
But oh well, good thing we didn't have to spend that much time in the room! :)

When we had changed we went out, started walking on Karl Johann st towards the royal castle :)
At Nasjonal teatret we met up with my dear friend Elisabeth!
It was actually the first time we met though! FINALLY! :) It was brief but it was great!
We went to a café  next to Nasjonal teatret, right on time too, cause it started raining.

Then we decided to take the metro up to Holmenkollen, unfortunately Elisabeth had to leave...
It was nice to finally be up there... Cause even thought I almost lived in Oslo for a year... I never did go up there... Only about half way when I worked at a kindergarden :P
But of course they were renovating the damn thing, so we didn't know where to go... We just went to a hotel with an amazing view and took some pictures and then headed back down!

When we got back to the city we all agreed we were hungry... And we ended up at TGI Fridays right by Nasjonal teatret (I love Fridays!) :)
I had pollo quesadillas, and they were gooooood... BUT! The pollo quesadillas at Java House, Nairobi rule all! :)
Right when we were about to leave Debbie asked the waitress:
"We're gonna visit my niece tonight, would it be OK if we could bring a balloon for her?"
...We got one... But Debbie doesn't have a niece...
However, we had a good time with Sir Helium! :D
It was hilarious!

We went to an alley at Aker Brygge and started playing :)  We only got one balloon though, so it ended pretty fast... But there's another Fridays at Aker Brygge as well... Aaaaand I went in and asked for 4 more... Which I got... And we amused ourselves for a while longer! ;)

Then we went towards Aker castle... and found a big statue of Franklin D Roosevelt... And started climbing him...
(Imagine climbing a statue of Jomo Kenyatta in Kenya ? You would SO go to jail!!) :P
...Then we were going in to Aker Castle... But we only got to enjoy it for like 5 minutes, then a guard told us they were closing. Bummer!

Sooo, we started walking back.... It was a very nice evening in Oslo... :)  We like!
When we got back to our room we borrowed a few movies and started watching A Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement...
And pretty quickly I realized how tired I was and went to sleep!
But first set the alarm at 8:30 am for May 17th! :D