One vs the Other

The weather here can't seem to make up its mind. When we arrived it was still quite cold and snow everywhere. It then began to warm up (at least their version of warming up). The snow began melting rapidly, clothes came off and ice cream was being eaten. It then began to cool down again with a some rain. By yesterday morning, we were back to snow flurries again. However, despite that, the view on our walk to eat each day is certainly different than it was when we were here for trip 1. Here is a first trip view and a current view.

The other thing that we find interesting here is that it doesn't ever really get truly dark here. In the bottom picture, it is about 10:00 at night. In fact, we don't need to leave a light on in the bathroom in case we need to get up during the night. We just leave the curtains slightly ajar and we can see just fine at any point during the night. Nate has been working via e-mail from here so he tends to stay up until about 2:30 am so he has been able to verify that it is still bright as mid-day even then. We're trying to figure out how they get their children to go to sleep at night when it's not dark outside. They must have really thick curtains!

Apparently during the winter months it is the opposite of what we are experiencing. It is completely dark without light. On our first trip, we got a little taste of that because the sun was only out about 5-6 hours. That is also so crazy to think about. We've discussed it and we think we'd rather do the continual sun vs the continual dark. What about you? Which would you prefer?

1 Samuel 1:27 "I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him."