Today we had to clean sauna and enjoy the sunny day. Well, we tried to take the second command very seriously and huskyfarm visit was perfect for that. It was fun to see and play with the husky puppies. They where so energetic and just wanted to drag and chew our clothing.

    husky puppies

We also met a friendly huskyfarm volunteer Batrisha who told us lots of interestings stories about the dogs and her life in Lapland. Because of her, we also had a great opportunity to take a part from sled-dog training and dog's poop cleaning.

    sled-dog training

All of the sudden all dogs start howling. It was so loud that we could not even hear our own thoughts. Later they explain us, it was because of the leader dog. When he makes the sound all the other dogs follow him and when he stops, everbody will as well. Why so, nobody knows. Today's biggest surprise was the husky's eye color. We have always thought they have only bright blue eyes, but we learned that they can be brown or green together as well.

   huskys can have different eye color

In the evening we went out and enjoyed Northern Lights together with a hot tea and sweet cookies. The beauty of the sky made us realize how lucky we are to be here and enjoy this so peaceful Nordic land.

Our long trip to Lapland started with a bus drive from Tartu to Tallinn. Continued by a late night ferry to Helsinki, a sleepless night in the airport, early morning flight to Rovaniemi, four hour bus drive to Muonio and then a car ride to Torrasieppi. Sounds long? It was and quite exhausting to be honest. We wanted to sleep so bad but just couldn't close our eyes. The views what we saw from the bus windows were just breathtaking. There was so much snow, big mountains and frozen lakes where people were skiing and ice fishing on. Everything just looked liked a perfect winter wonderland. We truly felt we had arrived a different world, a word of arctic circle. 

In Torraseieppi we met Sanna who were our destination manager and also our host. She gave us a short overview of what we had to do and could do there. First evening she let us settle in and just rest. We couldn't appreciate it more. For living she gave us a house near the reindeers farm. It was cosy, small attic. At night we decided to go outside, hoping to see the Northern Lights. Everything was perfect for that: clear sky, full moon and millions of stars, one brigter than the other. Even the planet Jupiter was there. BUT it wasn't what we really had wished to see. One moment we just gave up and went to sleep instead. Just seconds later when Maili switched off the lights, she screamed: " Look, Kadri... !" and she even couldn't finish her sentence when I had already jumped out of the bed. Almost killing myself. And there it really was, pure magic- Northern Lights.