It’s over, but there was still much to see that we didn’t get to. Our last day in Oslo, we went to the folk museum — really good museum, but it is laid out over several acres and we were unhappily in the rain tromping around and my back/hip/leg were not happy. What we saw was very interesting, but there was lots more we didn’t see. We tried to get a taxi twice, but when we pressed the number for English, nothing happened, so we tried for an uber, but I think no one wanted to drive to the museum from city centre or wherever they were — so we would get the text that someone was coming, but then they just fell off the map, so after several attempts, we went back to trying for taxi. After 2 more failed attempts at getting one, I stopped a guy leaving the museum (the woman in the museum shop was not only not helpful, but was condescendingly not helpful! I take it back about Norwegians being so nice and helpful) and he got hold of the taxi and the English number worked for him. By this time, I was taking every failure personally that the IT Gods were purposefully and malignantly interfering with attempts at getting us back to our hotel.
Finally back to our hotel, final packing, bedtime at 8 so we could get up at 3. Oslo to Helsinki, Helsinki to Dallas, Dallas to ABQ, ABQ to home. Ahhhhh. The month had changed from when we went out, so at least there were some new movie choices. In both flights, I watched some very lovely small movies (meaning not blockbusters or action movies), but I don’t remember the titles by now.
Finnair is a nice airline if you’re going wherever they fly. It’s a partner with American, which we flew to Dallas and back. Qatar is still my favorite though, and Turkish air. I used to like South Africa air, but haven’t traveled on it since they almost went broke and it was too worrisome to try them — we flew Delta instead and what I loved most about it was that they cleaned and restocked the bathrooms during the night (it’s the not-so-small things, y’all!)
Thanks for reading our trip — hope you get to travel somewhere you’ve wanted to go soon and have a great time at it — Happy Trails, Jonelle & Laird
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lairdandjonelle 
Boy! Before I plan a trip to any of the recent places you guys have visited, ws! am for sure going to check out a bunch of things with you guys! What a treat to read your posts! Hope to see you soon!
LL
Oh, I forgot to mention — both countries are expensive — they are worth it, but not sure how to do them inexpensively, especially if you want a drink at the end of a day or a nice meal. Tax on alcohol is 25% in both. Everything else is around 20%. Exchange rate was approximately 10 to 1, but when you get a tab in thousands, knocking off a zero does not feel like salvation.