Norway Day 8

It never really gets dark here. The sun kind of just goes around in a circle in the sky. The sun does set, but it never gets far enough below the horizon to actually get dark.


It is midnight right now. This is how it looks outside.

It is a bit overcast today, so it is darker than normal. It looks like this until about 3 am, and then the sun comes back up and it is day again.


It has really messed us up a bit. We end up eating dinner around 8 or 9 pm. The kids go to bed around 10:30 or 11pm - complaining the entire time that it isn't dark, it isn't time to go to bed yet, and that they aren't tired. But, by covering the windows with heavy drapes, we kind of trick their little minds into going to sleep...usually quite quickly once they settle down. For the first few days, they were up again at 6 am. But I think we passed that stage finally. Now they wake up a bit later and are getting more appropriate amounts of sleep.


Wednesday is Midsummer's Festival. We'll be going to the Folk Museum on Bygdoy. Hazel made sure that we are planning on taking the bus instead of walking. It's only a couple miles, but her little legs complain a lot. A whole festival for the longest day of the year.