Northern Lights Viewing and so much more!

Northern Lights Viewing!

I just thought that I should note that my nails now are longer than they’ve ever been.  I’ve always bit my nails and wanted to see how long they can grow, but I always ended up biting them because they broke, I got bored, stressed or whatever.  Not here.

So I haven't been posting all my pictures (sorry!) I'll try to post a bunch tonight and tomorrow!

Last weekend, we walked to the elders camp, never made it (it was an adventure anyway)

Saturday, we went to the Elders camp as mentioned

And Sunday we went towards James Bay to see the sunset!

Last night, I saw the northern lights again!  They weren’t super bright, and please have patience for me on the pictures because I have no clue how to focus them :S but they were out there, and we got to see them change quite a bit! There was even a bit of red that we could see from our front porch!

PICTURES! Again, sorry for the delay.  Uploading pictures isn't my favourite thing to do, especially since the connection here is slow and I have to leave it over night to post them!  But I should be mostly caught up after this :)

Briana took this picture one day walking home from school.  Yes, it was that dark at about 445! When we got here, the sun rose with us as we walked to school and set as we walked home from school.  Now we have a little more sunlight though :)  Notice the icicles on my eyelashes-ridiculous!

On the way to the Elders camp, we decided to take a different, more adventurous route, which apparently (someone decided) entailed climbing a really steep little hill.  We even had to push Lady, the dog that follows us everywhere, up!  We all made it and it felt like "climbing mount Everest," Michael said.  Hahaha, only us!

This one was taken when we walked the undriveable (another truch got stuck and we pushed them out) towards James Bay to the sunset. (not at James Bay as we planned though)  we've found that none of our plans work the way we plan them, but they always work out to our favour in the end anyway. :)

KATIMAVIK!  We tried spelling such with our bodies (I took this one) and even if you cant see it, we look pretty goofy so I figured it was well worth posting!

<3  Oh the sunsets here...

This is a picture taken at night from just out front of our house!  It's not the greatest depiction of the red I could see (on the horizon) which would be the northern lights ;)  but you get the idea.

This one was actually taken a while ago in our backyard. That's Michael (yes, in a Tshirt for picture sake) overlooking the gorgeous sunset after a long day on the weekend.

I should warn you guys once again about the difficulty of taking pictures of the Northern lights.  I don't know if I'll be able to figure it out, but Ill certainly try to do some research to help me out!  You can see the green in there though, which is what really matters, isn't it? Well, in this one (despite the blurriness- I believe the lens was frosted since I misplaced my cap) and I had it on a 20 second exposure with the lowest Fstop.  Next time- higher ISO, I'll wear better gloves so I can put the shutter on Bulb.  Any suggestions for the manual focus (which I find the most difficult aspect)  And if you have no idea what this means, don't even worry about it ;)

The "mitchuap" (cree word for Tee Pee) at the downtown of Chisasibi!  I took this one after school when the sun wass setting.  There, they also have a commercial centre, with Northern, the Grocery store, the post office, a co-op an more.  That's where all kinds of people hang out!