Trip of a Lifetime

Today we visited the port of Luleå, had a tour and overview of the port, and boarded an ice breaker vessel that clears the harbor of ice for incoming ships. BUT that is not all that we did. The ice breaker departed with all of us on board for an ice breaking trip up the Lule River. It was amazing to see and feel the ice breaker crushing the ice but then the ship stopped in the middle of the ice. Much to our surprise the captain asked us if we would like to climb off the vessel on to the ice in the middle of the river. Laura was the first to go with all of us soon following. The captain said that we were the first guests that he had allowed to do this. We agree that this was a trip up a river that none of us would forget.