Happy New Year 2014!

Town with a white coat

I woke up for cosy sounds in the morning of New Year's Eve: Strong wind was howling on the corner of the house. What would be nicer than lie on the warm bed and listen the sounds of wind outside?

The complete town got covered with a white coat.

Our dog has got a huge snowhill in the front of our house. I showelled the top of it flat so now he can confortably lay on it and keep a watch over the neighbourhood.

Even though there were still pretty much wind at the midnight, people went anyhow out and shoot the fireworks. As an owner of a dog I'm not too fond of that, but I'm really happy how well our dog was reacting for shooting. So now we have started with a new year again!

New Year celebration in Svea

I had my last working week in Svea over New Year. In the New Years evening everybody gathered in the canteen and we had a really nice meal together. At midnight there were pretty impressive fire works. Otherwise work week was just like normal. No any extra free just because of New Year.

We got one extra unplanned overnighting in Svea. We were outside looking for landing airplane - and just before touch down it took suddenly up again. Because of the turbulences it couldn't land. After one more attempt it gave up and returned to Longyearbyen. We got a change to fly back to Longyearbyen day after.

Time in Svea is over for now but I'm hoping I could go back next summer again.

A new year has started

It was nice but cold to be back in the cabin. There were a strong breeze when we drove to the cabin with the scooters. My own dog couldn't follow the dog team my friend was driving so he was sitting in his box on the sledge. I'm pretty sure he doesn't like it, but he prefer does that than is left behind. Anyhow, I think it's better with short unpleasant experience than to be left behind and to be taken care of an unfamiliar pack.

New Year's Eve was pretty cold with that strong breeze and -20 Celcius. We didn't see any fireworks at midnight, but we were able to hear rumbling of the fireworks from the town and light flashing and reflecting from Hiorthfjellet. I got suddenly a spooky feeling out of it: It must have been something like that in Finnmark, Northern Norway, in 1944 when people living outside of town were looking the total destruction of the towns by bombing. I was actually pretty happy, when rumbling was over and only thing we heard was wind. Over us was extreme bright starlit sky and some northern lights dancing over it. I'm pretty sure that sky over us was much more beautiful than all of those fireworks on the town.

New Years Day was really nice with just a gentle breeze and around -25 degrees. We got some visitors and had everything just easy. New Year started with a nice way :)

The picture is showing what happens when you leave your place for a moment: Even the dog is knowing where it's the warmest place to be sleeping. Especially, when sleeping bags are preheated!

Happy New Year!

It's time to back up our Zarges-boxes and go back to the cabin. We'll spend our New Year there, little bit out of the town and fireworks. So, Happy New Year for all of you!