-20 Degree Weather

On the 26th, we left for Longyearbyen, Norway... 78 degrees up North. And my golly when we landed it was freezing cold. My three hoodies and coat, and boots was no match to this type of weather. We were in a true Tundra Biome.

The first day of arrival wasn't very eventful except trying not to get frostbite from a 2K walk to a grocery store and back.

The next day however, we went to another museum where they talked about different things such as the polar bears, seals, whales, coal mines, Northern Lights, and things of that nature. It was really interesting, the only negative thing was I HAD to wear crocs... In Norway a lot of people take their shoes off once they enter a building. I guess this was to keep snow, dirt and whatnots from ruining the carpeting and wood.. But wearing the crocs were awful.

After the museum though, we were able to walk out onto the Arctic Ocean. It was so much fun. A little slippery and cold, but fun. The interestng thing it was frozen salt water so it must have been extremely cold. A group of guy found an ice hole and I was able to touch the water and yeah, its cold. In the water though, I did see a few little fishes and shrimps. After that I had to make a run back to the hotel it was freezing cold.



Next day though... DOGSLEDDING!