My last day in Norway

Today I was able to go site-seeing again. I met up with Paul's wife Joanne and we headed out on foot to visit the National Gallery of Oslo. As we walked up Karl Johans Gate (the main street/shopping district) we passed the National Theatre which is a very cool old building. Joanne took my picture in front of it. There is a plaza around the Theatre and a park. It's very nice. There is also a Hard Rock Cafe and a TGIFriday across the street.

From the National Theatre we headed to the National Gallery....on our way we pasted the Historical Museum..on the side of the building was this big banner and a collage.

We continued around the corner to the National Gallery to find that the Museum didn't open until 11am so we decided to walk up the hill to the Royal Palace. It is a very nice building with a large courtyard sporting a statue of a man on a horse and an excellent view of the city straight down Karl Johans Gate.

While we were walking around the courtyard taking photos the changing of the guard occurred. We were able to get a couple of pictures of the guarding switching out the last guard station and then marching back into the grounds.

By this time it was after 11 so we were able to head back to the National Gallery.
We weren't allowed to take photos in the Museum so we took pictures of the sculptures outside and when we were done viewing the paintings I bought a t-shirt with a print of the Scream by Edvard Munch. It is a very famous painting and was stolen a few years ago and later recovered. It is now back on display.



When were done at the museum we went out to find it was raining...we decided to get some lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe as it was one of the few places that you didn't have to sit outside then we headed back down Karl Johans Gate toward the newspaper and the end of the day.