Peace, Love, and Lutefisk: Adventures i Norge

Nature has been astounding me during the past 24 hours. Last night at the birthday party I was treated to the first of mother nature’s light shows: the Northern Lights. It was amazing. Green lights danced all around the sky as the crisp wind tried to force us inside. It was especially fun because some people from Oslo were at the party and they were even more ecstatic than we were. They had never seen the Northern Lights and felt that they had now had the true Northern Norwegian experience. I thought that it was a one time show, but today I was pleasantly surprised. It was of course, a rainy day in Tromsø, and during one of the breaks in the rain, I looked outside and there, only 200 meters away in the channel of water between Tromsø island and the mainland was a nearly full rainbow. It was bright, thick, and looked as if I could almost touch it. To top it off, (for better or worse), more snow has fallen on the crest of the mountains around tromsø. It seems apparent that the snow line will continue to creep towards us…at least our fate looks beautiful as it approaches.