During the night of 6/7 april 2000 I intended to watch meteors from my backyard. Some minutes before my alarm clock went off, my wife Lizzie woke me up and said: "The sky is in a strange way tinted red". "Hmm" I said "Probably clouds of cirrus" and silently cursing the weather gods... But when I looked out the window I saw a red sky with white columns of light moving up and down .... honderduizend miljoen bommen en granaten (this is a Dutch expression of Captain Haddock of the comic Kuifje)... this is Aurora Borealis!! I grabbed my T70 with a fish eye lens and ran off to the backyard of my home and took some nice pictures there. Enjoy!