About the Norway sequence, it does seem a bit lame but Manohla Dargis speculated in the New York Times that he put it in because one of the production companies was Norwegian. It seems to me perhaps that the girl wasn't real and that they both knew it but used her picture as a reason to go on the road together and bond. Otherwise, it certainly is strange that they would not have known there was no school on Sunday or that they would not have waited another day.

Regardless, it's a very lovely film.

Howard