One last fire
Before we leave for the night. You can see the juice kettle in the fire.
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Sledge
We came in the sledge with Johnny driving the snowmobile. The lake was frozen but there were a couple of spots that they were worried about so we had a guide that knew the way around those spots in front of Johnny. Eek!
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Moon
The moon looks cool with the forest in silhouette.
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Around the fire
The huge lake in the background.
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Really cool
The pics really do look cool!
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Purple
I'm not sure why everything is purple in this one but it's my favorite picture of the night.
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Red
The red comes from the campfire.
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Cloudy
It was too cloudy to see an aurora but Bill took some great pictures of the trees.
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Cold!
It was VERY cold! You can see someone was warming up their gloves by the fire.
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Great conversation
We met some really nice people and it was just beautiful out there. We sat on the edge of a BIG lake and it was snowing a bit. Really pretty!
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Juice
Our guide, Johnny, made a great fire, as you can see, and he heated up this GREAT juice that we LOVED and gave us everywhere we went over the fire. We also had some really good ginger snap cookies.
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Aurora camp
On our first aurora excursion we didn't see an aurora but it was super nice.
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The bar
After an hour we went to the bar to see if we could find some people. Bill went inside and asked. Finally someone even came outside to smoke. He told me that they spotted a brief aurora at the camp, not here, so they set off the alarm, just in case. We didn't stay out much longer. It was disappointing. Oh well. We had time and now we knew how it worked.
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No one around
We thought it was weird that we didn't see anyone else outside, even after a half hour, not one other person. Still no aurora.
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Hmmmm....
We didn't see anything but we were patient. Bill calibrated his camera and we kept looking.
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Clear night
It was a very clear night. You can see how bright the moon is shining. The construction on the left is an expansion of the main lodge.
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Helsinki!
Flying in to Helsinki, our first taste of darkness in the afternoon. This photo was taken at 2:16 pm.
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Made it!
It shocked even us but we made it back without any problems!
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Took a while
It took a while. On the way we were even stopped by some peope who were lost and they asked us for directions. We had to tell them we were Americans and had no idea.