This is a really informative and super cool site for checking out what the Sun is doing and more importantly to be able to see and understand the Northern lights, etc. Check it out: http://www.solarham.net/
We, being my sister, brolo and niece, are going to Sweden or Norway to stay in the Ice Hotel among other places to check out the lights. Cannot wait.
That sounds like a good trip. I stumbled on the site above while reading about the Sun with the recent sunspot activity seeming to drop or being in a slowing cycle of sunspots. That site has lots of tracking of seemingly complex topic items that have to be only available because of the advances in scientific tracking instruments.