An early start this morning with breakfast at 7:30 before being driven to the horse riding area for our “moose safari”. The drive was about an hour or so from the lodge. We arrived and got assigned our horses. We then had to head out to the pen to get our Icelandic horses and bring them back to the barn. In the pen next to the horses were 4 or 5 moose that had wandered in to eat the hay – didn’t need to bother with the horse ride! 🙂 R ounded up our horses and led them back to the barn, where we got them brushed and dressed in their saddles and bridles. By the time we finished I was starting to sneeze and have difficulty breathing due to a horse allergy. Fortunately, I was okay once we left the barn and got moving! R ode for about an hour and a half and spotted 4 moose; although didn’t get any better pictures than those in the pen! After the ride we had lunch of broccoli soup, reindeer, roasted potatoes and vegetables. For dessert there was a berry cake. W e then headed back in the van to the lodge, where the skidoo drove us to the wilderness camp. Got our cabin and hit the sauna. The sauna was a wood burning sauna and was not very warm initially. The water room in the building had ice on the floor and I regretted not bringing my water shoes 🙁 A fter the sauna we had dinner of tomato soup, salmon with herb cream sauce, rice and cream spinach. Relaxed for a bit and took some photos in the cold around the camp before heading to bed.

Had a good sleep finally without waking up! Had a leisurely start as breakfast was between 8 and 9 and snowshoeing didn’t start until 10. A large breakfast spread with eggs, bacon, sausage, cheese, cold cuts, smoked salmon, breads, yogurt, cereal… Had some breakfast and then went back to the room to get dressed up to brave the cold – minus 32 this morning! Then got our snowshoes and headed out for our 8 km snowshoe. The scenery was very picturesque with the trees covered in snow and the sun shining (for the brief time it’s up). We stopped at the wilderness camp for lunch and had a chance to warm up by the fire. Had some moose soup with bread and a muffin. Tasty and warm! We then headed back out along the river. We stopped not too far from the lodge to try some ice fishing; although they said the fish weren’t moving much due to the cold. Tried drilling a hole in the ice by hand but was pretty difficult due to the thickness of the ice. Was surprised at how tiny the fishing rods were – they looked like toys! Then snowshoed back to the lodge to have a sauna before dinner- definitely a good choice as it wad nice and warm and relaxing. Then went for dinner, which was a herring and beet starter with chicken with rice and gravy and then a crepe with lingonberry sauce. After dinner it was early to bed as we had a relatively early start tomorrow.