Green sky party was over and it was time to face the reality. Today we had to clean 3 lappish kotas, 2 larger and one smaller. They are catering buildings where touristgroups can eat after a long safari day. From outside they look like gingerbread houses but inside smells like a smoke sauna. Well, there is no suprise, kotas have bonfire in the middle of the room.

    lappish kotas

Our job was to clean all the tables, chairs and floors from the firedust. Also beat carpets and break the front door ice. At first we thought it is going to be easy day but after five hours we were exhausted. Not only because of the work but we also had to carry all the equipments and watertank one palce to another. And that was just not it! The cherry of the cake was the heavy snowstorm. Large snowflakes flew our eyes, mouth, and everywhere you can imagine. 

    snowy work day

When we got back home we looked like giant snowmans, sorry snowladies. Bad weather was also the reason why we decided to stay home for the rest of the evening and just drink tea and eat chocolate.

    our house in a snowstorm

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.