Top 10 reasons for growing up above the Arctic Circle!

  1. First stop for Santa Claus!
  2. It snows instead of rain!
  3. Reindeer are your friends!
  4. Bears don't eat lost hikers.
  5. Northern lights - who's painting spooky, undulating green-red smudges on the sky?
  6. That big cow in your backyard is an elk!
  7. You won't lack sleep - the sun sets on December 13th, reappears on January 4th. Goodnight!
  8. You will lack sleep - the sun gets up on May 28th and doesn't feel like setting until end of June - guess what - party-time!

Martin Szummer, szummer.NOSPAM@media.mit.edu (remove .NOSPAM suffix before sending)
Last modified: Sat Feb 7 14:34:25 EST 1998