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Hot tub, Sauna, Fjord, Repeat...

Today was an amazing day. We got to sleep in all morning and then wake up to have some nice breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast and yoghurt. Right after breakfast we started getting ready to go on a hike up the mountain on Sommarøy. It was a beautiful hike as we were constantly looking behind us looking at the view of all the islands and beaches around us. There was a tunnel up to the top but it was closed. It used to be used during WWII when the Germans had control of Norway and they had a lookout from the top of the mountain. There were a few buildings on top for something to do with a cell tower. Anyways, it was really cool to see all the mountains around us and as well the turquoise water. After we hiked down we had some soup for lunch. We spent a bit of time before the sauna/hot tub at 4:00pm preparing dinner and I made the brownies. My dads birthday is tomorrow and he is turning 50 so our friends Nils-Jørgen, Maria and Angelica came out this evening to celebrate. After I made the brownies we headed over to the sauna and hot tub where I spent the next four hours enjoying the luxury of this amazing place. Today we were able to keep adding wood to the woodburning hot tub and as well the sauna. After a few rounds we had the hot tub pretty hot and the sauna had reached 100ºC. That's when the fun started. We then had gotten the order figured out where we would sauna for a bit until you were dripping sweat, jump into the freezing cold arctic fjord, and then get into the hot tub and feel your body tingle in the heat. By the end we got the sauna to be almost 120ºC and it was insane. At about 8:00pm we walked back to the cabin and starting preparing the rest of dinner. Nils-Jørgen brought some salmon and he smoked it on the grill. We had a fantastic dinner of salmon, shrimp, vegetables, salad and then brownies with strawberries for desert. It was, as I said, an amazing day. Tomorrow Nils-Jørgen will drive all our bags back to Tromsø and we will get to bike back without any panniers!


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