"Most of the adventures were booked through Aurora Village, the first hotel on my itinerary. Pretty much every outdoor winter sport was available, including the aforementioned snow-shoeing excursion with Juha Tuunanen, the hotel’s CEO who offered us a fire-building lesson—a necessary survival skill for any Lapland resident. We sat around the fire and drank cups of warm blueberry juice, watching the sky turn from gray to black at 3:30 p.m."