it's really cold!!!

Well what a day. 

Today bini and I decided we'd walk to the tourist station and have a look around. The tourist station is in the abisko national park and is about a 2km walk away. Also known as a short stroll. 

We stocked up with cinnamon roles and oranges in my bag (we decided we only needed 1 bag today) the walk there was good and fairly uneventful. Bini decided to cool of in snow half way there. Once we arrived we discovered that the tourist station was closed for winter. However the hostel there wasn't and was acting as the tourist station.

We sat down there and had morning tea of said cinnamon roles and oranges. Also we discovered we could steal there internet as it was in the same sever as the stockholm hostel and we connected automatically. 

After morning tea and a little break we decided to go investigate the train station here to see if there was anywhere where we could get our train tickets printed officially as what we had was only a receipt not  a ticket. Sadly nothing at the train station. 

We the decided to go on the canyon walk nearby which was meant to be only a 20 minutes walk. Sadly about 300 meters in bini began to get really really cold and turned limp on me. We continued to walk so that we could the canyon and then I get really  cold as well. We aborted the walk and went back to the youth hostel to warm ourselves up. After this we were both exhausted as our bodies aren't used to the cold. 

After an our break and more cinnamon roles we made the long walk back home via the super market and bought yoghurt, sauce and meatballs. 

Once we got home we immediately forced yoghurt down the others throat and made a recovery. We had late lunch at 3 of spaghetti and meatballs which was very nice. And then an early and much  smaller dinner at 6 of left over bean fajitas. 

At 6:45 we went to reception to begin our booked nothern lights trip. Luckily for us the sky was beautiful clear (we were ecstatic as all other days had been clouded over). All day we had been watching in the aurora app a band of green come around the world but we weren't sure if it would come this far south. 

The tour consided of a trip on a sled connected to a snow mobile up into the mountains where there was no light pollution. Also there was a little tent set up there with a fire and some lovely lingenberry juice. (Normally served with vodka but sadly not today). 

At 7:30 we saw a grey line on the horizon to the north whichs our guides said was the start of the aurora. Halve an hour later they began. THEY WERE SO COOL!!! Over the next 2 hour we got a great show. We saw heaps on grey ribbons with some green and a small amount of pink. The best part was when we saw the dancing aurora. They are like moving ribbons of fire that move across the sky just as the movie and pictures show!!! It was so cool!!!!! We also discovered that cameras pick up the colours much better than the human eye. As when we were seeing grey. The pictures showed it as a pure green. Anyway still super cool!  I'm glad we finally got to see them. 

On the snow mobile back we froze our asses off and bini lost feeling in pretty much everything. Once we got I massaged some feeling back into her purple toes and then we rushed into the shower to warm up and then the sauna. The  sauna was an experienced with everyone near naked. Boys got a hand towel and girls got a longer towel however most didn't use either. 

After this we went to bed and had a good night sleep.