April 23-Today was a pretty typical Monday. School, work, laundry, and posts to this blog sum up most of the day for the Hays family.
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| Shan hiked Grábrók with the gönguklúbbur in the late afternoon. This old rétt, or sheep pen, on the north side of the mountain has a lava canyon ingeniously incorporated into it on the right-hand side. |
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| The girls finally finished their massive Easter eggs, whereas Spencer finished his Easter egg/soccer ball a week ago. They used the bases as milk glasses to see if the result would be chocolate milk. Not so much. |
There was another aurora borealis show this evening. It was rather weak, but we try to view them whenever we can, because we are never sure which show will be our last. The length of nights around here are shrinking dramatically and the shallow path of the Sun at night means that it no longer gets completely dark. This view to the
north shows twilight at 1am, when the Sun is on the opposite side of the Earth. The aurora borealis is still visible, but just barely.
The Sun now rises before 5am and sets after 9pm. This has started causing sleep problems for us. To combat this, Sally bought some black plastic bags and Shan used them to cover the edges of the windows to keep the light out that seeps in around the edges of the blinds. It is not perfect, but it works well enough so the light no longer bothers our sleep.
Shan,
ReplyDeleteNewcomers to Alaska will put tinfoil over their windows to block out the light in the summer. (though the locals would have no trouble sleeping when it's light out!)
Suzanne
Locals here have related stories of American servicemen doing the same thing back when they were stationed at Keflavík. I guess we are all just wimps!
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