(Sorry)

What the sun is doing to the earth right now:

(Screenshot of – what else? – a SolarBalls video)

Anyway. I was afraid we wouldn’t get a cool aurora show here because 1) it was kind of cloudy, 2) it seemed like everyone else in the world was already posting pictures of their light shows and we were still in complete darkness, and 3) that would just be my luck.

However, Nate picked the perfect time for us to go outside and we caught the lights just as they started to appear.

I took 100 pictures, but here are my favorite five:

This was my first time seeing the northern lights. WOO!