We came in the sledge with Johnny driving the snowmobile. The lake was frozen but there were a couple of spots that they were worr…
The moon looks cool with the forest in silhouette.
The huge lake in the background.
The pics really do look cool!
I'm not sure why everything is purple in this one but it's my favorite picture of the night.
The red comes from the campfire.
It was too cloudy to see an aurora but Bill took some great pictures of the trees.
It was VERY cold! You can see someone was warming up their gloves by the fire.
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. Rea…
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 we…
On our first aurora excursion we didn't see an aurora but it was super nice.
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…
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.
We didn't see anything but we were patient. Bill calibrated his camera and we kept looking.
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…
Flying in to Helsinki, our first taste of darkness in the afternoon. This photo was taken at 2:16 pm.
It shocked even us but we made it back without any problems!
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…
Now that we checked out the shops we actually had to find our way back to the hotel. This was a VERY different way back and in the…
We got off at the right stop but we saw this street with cute Christmas lights and shops so we decided to walk back a different wa…