FINALLY here!!!

Well we are here atlast. We arrived at our bed at 1/2 3 in the morning and had to get up at 1/2 7!!!!!!!!!!! So for those of you who cant add up - thats 4 hours sleep!!!!!!!! The flights were long and late and tiring. The airport in Longyearbyen is tiny - its a runway with an aeroplane hanger as a terminal!!!!

So after our few hours sleep we were helpful by making sandwiches for our lunch - that was cheese, cheese and ham, ham, cheese and tomato, cheese ham and tomato and ham with tomato.
So after that this morning we went to the Worlds Biggest Satellite Station. We went in the dome with the antenna and it moved and freaked us all out!!!! It was very cold up there (caus it was very high up!!), also it was cloudy so we couldnt really see anything!!!!

After that and eating our sandwiches we went into the town and did some shopping. There were not many shops and also not a very large range!!!! (I did manage to get some smart trousers as mine are in the airing cupboard at home!!!!!

So after that we returned to our guest house where we are staying (for Mrs B - it is at 78 degrees lattitude!!!)

Many of you expect it to be covered in snow here but it is actually not!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is mainly rocky ground and a little snow on the top of these hills!!!!


Well need to go now because we are going for dinner!! Watch BBC Breakfast Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday caus they are doing something on the trip. Also look at the Ice Edge webby for pics until we can load some up on the boat!!!

We luv ya all lds!!
Michelle, Nat, Ellouise and Tom
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