This past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I spent some time with Andie, Mal, Brienne, and Emily up in the beautiful arctic circle in Tromso! We started off pretty early on Friday and made it safely to finally see some spectacular mountains! 
This is a view from the plane window! Mal has never seen mountains, so she was freaking out on the plane! 
Here is Pheegan and I and a view of the city!
Our first stop was the Polaria Museum where they have bearded seals and they do gymnastics! Found a great cafe for supper, then headed back to the hotel. Here is where we met a couple German guys who asked if we would like to join them for some Northern Lights exploring and we definitely couldn't pass that up! A group of us all hiked it up a mountain in a suburb off the island where we could find some darkness! And sure enough in the freezing cold and with a little patient we saw a breathtaking sight of greens, whites, and reds that expanded across the sky and danced along the horizon! Sooo amazing!!
This is a picture I took of the island all lit up at night! Unfortunately I don't have any good pictures of the northern lights!
The next day we started by visiting a glass blowing place where we met a very friendly lady who gave us a demonstration! Next we were set up for a tour at Mack's Brewery, but they only give tours M-Th in the winter - well it didn't say that on it's website, but we went across the street to the ajoining pub and bought some souvenirs anyway! We then had arrangements to meet up with Mandy, a concordia student who is studying there for six months, so we were definitely excited to see one another and swap stories! That night we headed out to do some dogsledding!! Yes dogsledding!
We got an hour ride on a sled and afterward met a bunch of the dogs in the yard as well as hold some of the puppies!! So cute!! 
The whole ride was alot of fun and the view of the city and the mountains at night was so great! As for Sunday we only had the Tromso Musuem to see and to check out their selections of Viking and Sami jewelry! Afterwards we had dinner than headed for a restless night at the airport! An amazing experience so far of Norway!
This is a view from the plane window! Mal has never seen mountains, so she was freaking out on the plane! 
Here is Pheegan and I and a view of the city!Our first stop was the Polaria Museum where they have bearded seals and they do gymnastics! Found a great cafe for supper, then headed back to the hotel. Here is where we met a couple German guys who asked if we would like to join them for some Northern Lights exploring and we definitely couldn't pass that up! A group of us all hiked it up a mountain in a suburb off the island where we could find some darkness! And sure enough in the freezing cold and with a little patient we saw a breathtaking sight of greens, whites, and reds that expanded across the sky and danced along the horizon! Sooo amazing!!
This is a picture I took of the island all lit up at night! Unfortunately I don't have any good pictures of the northern lights!The next day we started by visiting a glass blowing place where we met a very friendly lady who gave us a demonstration! Next we were set up for a tour at Mack's Brewery, but they only give tours M-Th in the winter - well it didn't say that on it's website, but we went across the street to the ajoining pub and bought some souvenirs anyway! We then had arrangements to meet up with Mandy, a concordia student who is studying there for six months, so we were definitely excited to see one another and swap stories! That night we headed out to do some dogsledding!! Yes dogsledding!
We got an hour ride on a sled and afterward met a bunch of the dogs in the yard as well as hold some of the puppies!! So cute!! 
The whole ride was alot of fun and the view of the city and the mountains at night was so great! As for Sunday we only had the Tromso Musuem to see and to check out their selections of Viking and Sami jewelry! Afterwards we had dinner than headed for a restless night at the airport! An amazing experience so far of Norway!
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