I am finding the midnight sun to be confusing. I had expected a kind of twilight and maybe an almost-sunset, but this far north it just stays bright all night.
Here is last night at midnight, from our room:
Bright sun at midnight
The room steward always makes up our room while we are at dinner, so we come back from our meal to find the curtains closed and the lights turned on. Since we came north, we have started having to immediately turn out the lights and throw open the curtains to let the sunlight in. A bizarre ritual, but I think the stewards are not allowed to deviate from the standard process for preparing a room for the evening.
I have been able to stitch very late at night - the light is just that bright.
When we are ready to sleep, we are finding that even with the curtains closed tightly, the room is not dark enough, so we have been using our sleep masks that we each had for the overnight flight from home.
Maybe as we get farther south again we will see some of the midnight sun skies that I had expected.
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