So up this far north, it really doesn't get very dark at night. We are actually past the time in the year where the Sun doesn't set at all, but at the moment it is just barely below the horizon, and it still isn't very dark. In fact, it's actually really hard to sleep when the sky doesn't actually get dark. We never are usually outside at midnight in Kiruna, so we took the oppourtunity
after our unsuccessful fishing trip and fabulous BBQ to take a drive to follow the Sun at midnight. For some reason there was a beacon off on a stretch of land that Alain and Alex wanted to explore. And they came back with a beautiful bunch of wildflowers for me and sang me Happy Birthday at midnight, it was so nice! It hasn't really felt like my birthday lately, more that the days all rush into one, it was just so nice they remembered!
So up this far north, it really doesn't get very dark at night. We are actually past the time in the year where the Sun doesn't set at all, but at the moment it is just barely below the horizon, and it still isn't very dark. In fact, it's actually really hard to sleep when the sky doesn't actually get dark. We never are usually outside at midnight in Kiruna, so we took the oppourtunity 
after our unsuccessful fishing trip and fabulous BBQ to take a drive to follow the Sun at midnight. For some reason there was a beacon off on a stretch of land that Alain and Alex wanted to explore. And they came back with a beautiful bunch of wildflowers for me and sang me Happy Birthday at midnight, it was so nice! It hasn't really felt like my birthday lately, more that the days all rush into one, it was just so nice they remembered!
