Mo I Rana to Ramfjord

Hotel:                                                                                                  Ramfjord Camping                                                                                   Sorbotn, 9027 Ramfjordbotn, Norway                                                     Telephone # +(47) (0)77 692130                                                                   Fax # +(47) (0)77 692260

Breakfast:  6:30                                                                                          Bags to the bus: 7:15                                                                                        Bus departs:  7:30

Today's shower was simply lovely without hot water, NOT!  Around 8:30 we had a stop at the Arctic Circle (66° 33N), it was cold and rainy, but I got my picture taken with markers.  When we got back on the bus Che explained to us about the Arctic Circle and how because of the way the earth rotates the Arctic Circle moves a bit every year.  At 10:00 we made a stop for groceries, and were again told to stock up, I bought a pre-made sandwich that I would eat on our ferry.  I don't know where we were or what we were crossing, but we had a 30 minute ferry ride that we could eat lunch on, much better then on the bus.  They had some hot food on the boat, but not enough to feed us all in 30 minutes so it was a good thing we had bought lunch.

A closed restaurant	Me and an Arctic Circle marker

I slept for a good portion of our trip today, but did wake up at one point and got to see a beautiful waterfall.  And at 3:00 I saw my first moose.  At 3:45 we stopped in Narvik the "bustling port," you guessed it, not a thing to do.  Nothing was open, we were lucky to find a hotel that would let us use the bathroom.  After that we took goofy pictures with statues, sometimes you have to make your own fun.  But Narvik was an important port to the Germans in WW II, it also appeared in an episode of lost.   

We were far away from everything	Goofy pictures

We got to camp at 7:30 and I roomed with Leah D and Kirsteen.  Our camp was on another river and lake.  I was lucky I had one of the decent cabins, though most of the couples had a REALLY nice cabins. 

River to the left, my cabin to the right, nice view!

Before dinner I took a little walk around, got some tokens for the shower (5NKr for 3 minutes) and then hung out with Chris, Jacqui, Kate, Andrew, Lis and Leah B.  After dinner I was going to take another night time shower, but somehow ended up playing Uno instead.  Probably worked out better since I heard they ran out of hot water in the bathroom - two cold showers in a row would not do.  When we quit Uno at midnight I took a shot at it and there was hot water in the bathroom, score!  I ended up going to bed with a wet head since there were no plugs in the bathroom and both my roomies were in bed sleeping.