We fly out tomorrow morning on the 4:50 am flight to Oslo, and then from there we head to Reykjavik, Iceland, and then on to Boston. Tomorrow evening will be my first "night" in five weeks, and part of me is quite excited to see the sun set for once. Yet another part of me is sad to say goodbye to Svalbard, to the people that I have met on our trip and in Svalbard, and to the landscape. The sun here is getting lower in the sky, and the first sunset is only a week or two off from now. It would be amazing to be here for that, but I guess that adventure will have to wait until the future. It would be even more amazing to be here when the sun rises for the first time in months: apparently the first part of Longyearbyen to be bathed by sunlight is the church.
Today we hiked up to the main glacier behind Longyearbyen, and tonight we are headed out to dinner together. Ross and Julie will not tell us where we are going for dinner (as it is supposed to be a surprise), but if we really wanted to figure it out we probably could: there are not that many options here in Longyearbyen, even though it is a city compared to Ny Alesund.
REU group with Longyearbyen in the distance (photo courtesy of Julie BG)
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