My trip to Arctic Finland

I just got back from a wonderful trip to the northern part of Finland. Can you use a map to find the spot where Finland, Norway, and Russia meet? That's where I was! That part of Finland is so far north that it is beyond the Arctic Circle.

I went to Arctic Finland to see the Northern Lights. The Northern Lights, also called the Aurora Borealis, is a beautiful display of colored lights that you can see in the night sky only in the northernmost parts of the globe. The lights are caused by tiny charged particles way up in the atmosphere interacting with the Earth's magnetic field. You can't always see them, and at particular times they are brighter. When I went, there were a few clouds in the sky, but I still got a pretty good look. Here's a picture I found on the Internet of what the Northern Lights look like: