Good bye Sun!

We said good bye for Sun on the 26. of October. Actually, I haven't seen it anymore for a while, because our valley is facing to north and even though the sun has been over the horizon, it has been hiding behind the mountains. Earlier years we have went to see the last sun or sunset somewhere outside of the town, on on mountain or in Bjørndalen to say farewell for him. This year I didn't had a change...

It's still couple of weeks kind of twilight at midday, but then we're getting toward to real dark season. On cloudy days it's totally impossible to say, where is south. But, in clear days it's nice to go to have a trip to valleys which are facing to south - then you can see the sky being little bit lighter even in the darkest time of the year, around Christmas. That's so beautiful, and it keeps you a hope of that the Sun will return back on one day.

The sun is rising next time at the 14. February. Again, our valley is facing to north, so it takes couple of more weeks before we can see it from our town. Before that we need to go to greet him back in some mountain. It's always so nice to get him back!  There is a big celebration, when the Sun is shining first time on the steps of our destroyed hospital. If the weather if good, you can see him shining couple of minutes over a glacier - and then he hides again behind the mountain. That's the actual Sun-celebration day. Now days that is a big day for kids in the town, which haven't seen the Sun for a while now. Traditionally it was giving a hope for those people, which was laying sick on that hospital. The Sun is back - they will survive!