This morning, Ryan, Shashank, and Elizabeth got up early to make their flights back to the USA. Allan and Benton left a bit later for their flights to Oslo, followed by Joe (whose flight to the USA wasn’t until later in the day). Benton and Allan’s flight was super empty. However, we turned around and noticed that one row of 3 people had: 2 huge (like offensive lineman sized guys)...
Today we got up and started the day by going to W.B. Samson - Grünerløkka, where Benton finally managed to get some Skolebrød. Next, we took a super long bike ride out to The Fram Museum (about 5.5 miles, see the route in orange on the map), and it was impressive how in nature we felt even though we left from the city center. It was also neat that there were still bikeshare racks all the way out at Fram....
We started our last day in Oslo with the typical café/pastry run; Benton got a cardamom bun from Frida Bakery, while Allan opted for a rhubarb tart. After the café, we biked to the metro, and took it all the way to Oslo Klatresenter AS (a climbing gym partially owned by a youtuber named Magnus Midtbø). Allan bought some “MagDust” (rock climbing chalk), and then we bouldered for a while. In general, the climbs were pretty cool, but we did note that the easiest climbs in the gym were much harder than the easiest climbs in the gyms we were more used to (i....
Our flight back to New York was at 1pm, so we had time to grab one more coffee before heading to the airport. At the airport, Allan got some pickled herring from the lounge (Benton opted out despite really liking pickled herring; he just didn’t trust it before our transatlantic flight). On the flight, we were told that only the first beverage was free (outside of water), and Allan asked if that included the beers....