Hello from the home of the Nobel Peace Prize!

I forgot what a stunningly beautiful city Oslo is! Old Europe with the best of the New World, less crowds and no summer humidity! The boys will love it.

The first thing they’ll do is have an early lunch (or mid-night snack EST) at Oslo’s best hamburger joint – Max’s.

Then it’s on to the US Embassy to sing for Ambassador White and present him with a Liberty Bell in the Embassy’s very cool atrium. When I did the walk thru – direct from the airport! – I was stopped by the first employee I passed. She noticed my logo and is so excited for our visit. (She’s from PA.) It’s a noon time mini-concert so that the Embassy employees can gather at lunch to hear a little taste of home 🙂

From there we will go to the Nobel Peace Center for a VIP tour and then a mini-performance. Media is expected as a run up to Saturday’s event. The city is a buzz with Aung San Suu Kyi’s anticipated arrival twenty one years later after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. We are listed in the official literature and advertisements along with our very gracious hosts Solvguttene. Everywhere you turn, you see Aung San Suu Kyi’s face, and below it – albeit in small print – Keystone State Boychoir. We’ll take it! Very exciting. Broadway was SO yesterday.

Our visits to the breathtaking Vigeland Sculpture Park and the very cool Opera House roof will take place tomorrow afternoon. The boys will need lots of fresh air to stay awake by that time.

Friday will be Museum(s) day. I just did walk thrus of them all: Viking, Kon-tiki, Fram (!), and Munch. They are all thrilled to welcome us as official participants of the Aung San Suu Kyi festivities on Saturday. We’ll do Sings! at each of them. (Sings! are impromptu mini-mini concerts.) Media may follow us.

While gazing at real Viking Ships (600AD!), and then standing on the Fram (so cool), I couldn’t help but think that our boys are modern day explorers, singing Vikings, if you will. With better manners of course. Hmm… ??? On a good day 😉 Be sure you do your internet homework so you can appreciate what the boys are doing and seeing. Lucky them. Let me guess, in your next your life, you want to come back as your son and sing in KSB! Doesn’t everyone???

As I write this, parents and boys are en route to Penn Charter. By the time you read it parents, you will have said your tearful goodbye to your most treasured possessions and left them in our good care. We will do everything in our power to ensure they have a safe, healthy, life-changing, life-affirming, once in a life time musical adventure. I’m thrilled for them. As with all KSB tours, this experience will change them forever in wonderful ways. Ways that you’ll immediately see upon their return, and in ways that will only reveal themselves over time throughout their lives. Thank you for your sacrifices, leaps of faith and trust to make this opportunity possible for them.

More later…