Who'da thunk!

That being in the Arctic Ocean, not far from the North Pole, it would be the warmest day of our trip! Even the locals said this day was quite unusual. We tendered into Honningsvag this morning for a 3 hr tour around the island seeing lot's of neat sites and fishing villages. In one of them we saw a herd of reindeer. That was a pleasant site. However, I will say that this was the most disappointing stop so far. The Christmas store that Lana and I were looking so forward to seeing was a tiny little building with lots of ordinary Christmas things. I decided to buy an ornament and their antiquated credit card gadget would not emboss my credit card and I had no Norweigan cash. Then when we returned to the pier, I found another souvenier store and tried to purchase something for our yet to be born grandchild. Their more modern credit card machine rejected my one and only credit card that they would accept. Again, no cash! We stood in line, in the bright sun and heat for a long time to get back on the tender boats to go to the ship. For some stupid reason, these tender boats would bring passengers from the ship to shore, then leave, EMPTY, and return to the ship. They did this 3 times before they finally took us "home". We ate lunch, Lana and I did laundry, then rested. Back when we bought the pieces of art by Beheren, we were given a complimentary bottle of champagne. This morning I ordered hors dourves and we just had a pleasant sailaway on our balconies. We are waiting to pass the North Cape to take pictures before we go to dinner. Oh, last night, we were up most of the night b/c of the midnight sun. It actually did not set at all. Larry got some neat pictures of it. However, 5:30, gettin' up time, came awfully quick.
Well, we are nearly upon the Cape, so let me go take some pictures. Hope all is well at home with the cats, dogs, grandchickens, kids and grandkids!