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Blown circuit

We should know better because we blew a circuit in our room in Italy on our "Big Adventure" trip. Trying to plug in a power strip.…
Aurora schedule

Basically the night schedule, posted in the afternoons. We have the Aurora Camp with Johnny at 8 pm.
Daytime Schedule

Every night they posted the next day's schedule. You can see we have a husky safari tomorrow at 9:45.
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 outsid…
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.
Hmmmm....

We didn't see anything but we were patient. Bill calibrated his camera and we kept looking.
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 lo…
Aurora alarm

We were watching a movie on the iPad, maybe going to sleep and the aurora alarm we paid for went off. We leaped out of bed and put…
Welcome bears

After this we went to get our cold weather gear that we wore on top of our many, many layers of clothes.
Forest

There was forest in almost every direction around us. The nearby town was very small and a ways off. After we got our winter stuf…
The sign

We didn't get to take a photo of the sign when we first arrived so we took one while we were walking around.
Dog house?

Our best guess for this was dog house.
Lake Maajärvi
The lake

They told us the lake was the best place to see an aurora. We'll go down there later.
Tiny cabins

We weren't sure what these cabins were, maybe storage, but they were so cute!
Hotel

We stayed in a log suite. On the other side of the lodge was the hotel.
Kirakka!

We really liked this name. We even thought about naming our next dog "Kirakka" but when it came down to it we thought maybe it was…
Cabins

All of the cabins were sold out when we were there but we hardly saw anyone except for meal times.
Close to the lodge

We were happy we were so close to the lodge. For dinner we could walk over there without having to put on so many layers.
Outside cabin

The outside of our cabin.
Looking around

We still had to get our super cold weather outfit from the hotel but we decided to look around a bit first.