We are up early this morning.  It’s 6 AM which for us is very early.  Breakfast will not start until 7.   Today we visit Norway’s answer to Sweden’s Ice Hotel, the Snow Hotel at Kirkenes. There is also a tour to the Russian border that we would like to take, but we can chose only one.  We’ll tour the Snow Hotel.

Yesterday we bumped into Dave and Kirsten and Elenor at the North Cape. Today Dave and Kirsten will also tour the snow hotel.  It’s funny that total strangers have chosen to do identical things.   Both they and us chose the tours long before boarding the cruise ship.

Still stranger, Kirsten’s father’s brothers live in Yellow Springs Ohio.  Antioch, that bastion of liberal education, is located in Yellow Springs.  I probably rubbed shoulders with her brothers while at college.  She would have been just a few years old then.

So it is with some excitement that we’re off to the snow hotel to grab a “cold one” and perhaps to see those famed Northern Lights that have eluded us in the main. 

“I’m tired of rain.  Some snow would be ok.  No more rain though”, Kirsten opined last night.  We fully agree. Someone with ties to Njord, make it so!