7-18-2015: Ahhh, it's Oslo!

Off to the airport and it is a zoo! People everywhere and carts and suitcases and more people and good grief. We find our airline and a kiosk and we enter our reservation number and bam - there we are! Out pops the boarding pass and bag check straps. Now what - ah, bag drop!- that's us! But wait, there are no people, just a conveyer belt and a scan gun. We watch a couple folks work it and it could be trouble. The locals toss their bag on the belt and scan they tag but the conveyer will not budge. Off comes the bag, out come some local words from the bag owner that I assume were not in good taste, out come some articles from the suitcase, back goes the bag on the conveyer belt and this time the suitcase accepts the bag. We are ready because we carry a luggage weighing devise but it was a major effort to make the weight. But it works first try and the bags disappear. Gulp - hope we did that right and our bags meet us in Oslo!

Our bags all make it and we find our expensive taxi for a ride to Thon Hotel Rosenhrantz. One of us gets a less expensive room (any guesses who?) and pay for it with a very small room. But wait, there is a reward and it comes with the hospitality. We are told the dinner that comes with the room is more like appetizers so we opt to visit an Indian Restaurant.

Big mistake as we return to the hotel to check out what we could have eaten and find it would work just fine for us.

But in the morning we get a most pleasant surprise as we join other guests for an incredible breakfast that comes with the room. Greeting us is yet another blond baltic beauty with a wide smile - my goodness the women and little blond kids in these counties are just beautiful. The breakfast offers smoothies, fresh squeezed (you watch it being made!) orange juice, rolls, wonderful bread, eggs of any kind, omelets, and on and on. Oh, and lattes for the asking and we ask many times over. But wait, that is not all - they offer a room on the top floor that is open to guests anytime where a machine knows how to make a great cappuccino and a fountain shoots out carbonated water all day long. What a hotel!