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While I don't enjoy the snow and -15°C, I am truly enjoying the display of Northern Lights tonight. I wish I had a camera that could capture it, but alas! I do not.

 

At any rate, here's to the awesomeness that is nature. Who needs tv when you get a light show like this? :D

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Oh, my DH would be sooooo jealous!

 

He has convinced himself that they are a myth. :lol:

 

*I've* seen several displays of awesomeness that are the Aurora Borealis, having grown up in SK. DH has never seen them, in real life, and they are never out when we visit.

 

We even lived in ND for a year, and he had high hopes of at least seeing them once. Nope. My family even called and woke us up at 2:00 a.m. once so he could go out to see them. By the time we got out there, we just barely saw them disintegrating into nothingness, almost an optical illusion. Poor guy.

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We were watching them tonight too on our drive back home, we have only seen them twice out here. It was hard to keep my eyes on the highway when I wanted to keep turning to look at the lights while the kids oohed and ahhed. They are going to do some work tomorrow in school focused on them (nature journal entry, water color painting, 1/2 report) since it is such a treat to see them.

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Is it weird that I want my kids to memorize this? It just seems appropriately Alaskan.

 

Not at all. My mom's former boss had to memorize it in grade school (he is nearing 70 now). He still recites it every year at her xmas party and has challenged the kids each year to memorize it to say with him (they only remember bits and peices of it right now, not the whole thing).

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