Oslo Day 1

Day 1 Monday 11/8
Today marks the first day of an Oslo-Amsterdam-Stockholm two week customer event with a personal 15 hour train trip to Warsaw in between Amsterdam and Stockholm.
The flight was the best international flight I've ever been on, and it was probably better than some domestic ones. We had about an hour delay out of Houston, but only landed a half hour behind schedule in Amsterdam. I was fortunate enough to have the window seat next to an empty one, so I had the full row to stretch out in. The chicken and rice meal was above average as well! I slept for about 6 hours of the 9 hour flight, and another 1.5 of the 2 hour flight from Amsterdam to Oslo. I was fully rested and ready to go! We landed in Norway and cleared baggage at before 2PM, and then found the Norway HP guys to take us to the hotel.
After having an early dinner/late lunch at the hotel restaurant, we hitched a ride back to the airport to pick up the last few people coming in on another flight and take a train from the airport into downtown Oslo.
We were only there for a few hours, but I found a stein to match my Danish one and picked up a Christmas gift or two. The Karl Johans pedestrian street we wandered was a lot like Kongingsgaard (I know I butchered that one) from Copenhagen, but in my opinion not as good. After a brief separation and aimless wandering, we all managed to meet back at the train station and head back to the outskirts to do final event preparation. No port-a-potties were found. :(
This is the second time I've worked an event in a hotel, the first had a lot of behind the scenes issues but the Norwegian staff here seems incredibly helpful. I have high hopes! Speaking of the hotel, the architecture is just neat. Very sleek and clean looking, and the furniture is so light! I wish all furniture was Scandinavian, it would make last minute room set up scrambling so much easier. My room has two single beds and weird lights, but it has a certain amount of charm to it. It's also the first hotel room I've ever been in that does not have a pen in it.
And what trip wouldn't be complete without some idiotic screw up by yours truly. This time I managed to pack the 220V power cord for my laptop so it will work with the plugs here, but forgot to actually pack the power brick that connects the cord to the PC. Sigh. Luckily I'll have a spare when we get to Amsterdam on Wednesday.