This is the last week of sun before the dark season. As you can tell I’m taking all the pictures I can. Soon the sun will disappear for two months but even in the darkness we have a ‘bright season’ – Christmas, and not to mention the Northern Lights. Tis the season to be jolly.
Even though the males are called bulls and the females cows, the muskoxen are more closely related to sheep than cattle. Make no mistake, though – this is not your average cuddly ba-ba-blacksheep! A grown animal can be 2,5 m long and weigh up to 400 kgs, and their long curved horns mean business.
Celebrate National Fårikål day with us. On the last Thursday of September every year Norway celebrates their national dish with, of course, all you can eat fårikål!
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Today herding reindeer is synonymous with the Sami culture. It is recently thought that the Vikings were the first people to herd reindeer.
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Norwegians are starting to get adventurous with cooking on the barbie.
Is it hard to get a job in Norway?
Our family activities have become traditional to the seasons…
Wow, it’s very beautiful, but also a little scary! Two months of darkness seems tough. Do people suffer depression during this time of year from lack of sun?
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from L-Jay:
Yep, depression is an issue up north but management and attitude is the way to beat it. We wrote a post about some of the tricks to beating depression from the darkness: How to Survive the Dark Winters
But the dark Winter is also a time of sleeping and good eating. Two of the biggest days are in the darkness that warms everyone up – Christmas and New Years. But we also have the Northern Lights to look forward to. 
So far… I’m missing the sun already even though we still have three more days left.