I have been wanting to see the northern lights for many years. When I was in Sweden and Voyageurs national park, I especially looked up the sky and imagined that green. One day, they arrived unexpectedly.
I was very busy on 5/10 weekend, and on Saturday morning, when I got up and heard that many parts of the north American saw northern lights last night. “Oh I would’ve driven to the Voyageurs national park if I knew it.” Then the radio said “the northern lights will continue on 5/11 and maybe 5/12”. When it got dark, we headed out to the Ada Hayden lake, the north part of the town. The parking lot is full. The benches around the lake were full. We also saw some tents here and there. The road near the lake had many traffic lights. They were the crowds leaving from the graduation ceremony. It must be a good weekend.
The sky looked purple redish, and near the horizon, it has an edge of yellow green. “Is it the northern light?” We were not sure. The picture below has much more obvious color compared to what we saw in person. We sat in the dark and guessed whether the lights would arrive like lightening. Northern lights are cool because they looked very differently at different places although they happened at the same time in the northern atmosphere.


All the planets are under the horizon that night but it is cheerful to see the starry dippers and the fast moving international space station.


Around 11pmish, the sky has some stronger red and green at places.

It was such a beautiful night. Although my family was hurry to go back to sleep, I was totally in the mood of 20s:
Walk around the lake late at night
Sit in the darkness hand in hand
We watch the stars and chat about the life