Moonlighting and Northern Lighting

Just a quick one here. One of the things I have longed to see during my trip to Canada was the Aurora Borealis (the Northern Lights). While tidying up on Saturday during my Porting shift, I was approached by a guest who asked to see the bill. I asked who his server was, and he told me who it was but that he couldn't find her anywhere. After a short search I found everyone outside, looking upwards. The server saw her guest and came back, but I stayed behind and copied everyone who was staring at the sky. Then I saw these sea-green sheets billowing and swirling across the sky. When I'd seen movies of the Lights before I thought that the film had been sped up, but in reality they move pretty quickly. We didn't quite have the show that those in Banff saw at about 1:30 in the morning, but it was quite spectacular and certainly hypnotic. But this display was unusual enough for the locals to be talking about it in the morning, and I feel privilidged to count myself as one of the few on-hill staff who saw it that night.

However, rather depressingly, even after my long day shadowing and my long day porting, it's time again for Daylight Savings in Canada so I had 1 hour's less sleep than normal. And I've still not managed to catch up!



This picture courtesy of a friend-of-a-friend...