Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Polar Bear Club






Ok so now I can say I've done it! I've jumped in the Artic Ocean...yes I said Artic and if you're shocked you have NO idea! Donald (SLP here) and I did it Sunday at approximately 5:40 pm AST into the water which was a lovely 38 degrees F, air temp was 38 degrees F, and the windchill was 29. And why did we do this you ask?? Because we can! Plus we both get an AWESOME patch...I mean really what else do you need??? And yes I'm putting the pics here for you too!! Enjoy...did I mention it was COLD?!?! Or the fact that I'm OFFICIALLY part of the Polar Bear Club??

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Week 1





So the first week of school is done and I'm exhausted! Between still unpacking stuff (by the way my groceries came and I ROCK! Especially when I remembered a bunch of stuff that I can't believe I remembered!)
Anyway, the one thing that keeps making me laugh is that we are getting e-mails about the Polar Bears in the area and that we need to be careful! Ok the only reason I think it's funny is because it doesn't seem real! But it is, a jogger was attacked but was saved by someone driving by! It's actually a serious problem in the area but that's ok as long as we're careful it's all good!
I live in a building called the "12 plex" which is awesome. I'm really close to the store and the library so I'm thrilled!! I get to walk to work everyday and it's beautiful...I'm only getting confused sometimes when I wake up as it's only dark from like midnight until like 4 am right now...and that's a bit confusing! I do have a couple of pictures but hopefully I'll get more soon!
A couple of the pictures are from the football game last weekend (and yes we won, and the boys won last night...against the 2nd place team!) So right now we're 3-0 and it's awesome! There's a new book out about Barrow and Mark Voss (the head football coach) called "Thunder on the Tundra" it's supposed to be pretty good and they may be making a movie out of it!
Anyway, I have work to do so I'm going to run! But enjoy the couple of the pictures I've got and I'll get more soon!

Go Whalers!!

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Last of Summer Pics






Ok so here are the last of my summer pics...I should have new pics of Barrow, Alaska by next week! Wish me luck!!!

Friday, August 8, 2008

Over





Wow! I can't believe summer's over already! I leave on Sunday and it's been a wild summer! I'm seriously going to miss the new friends and old...here's some pictures to complete the summer!

Friday, August 1, 2008

Aunt Kate


So for those of you who don't know....Aunt Kate died yesterday (July 30th) at about 2:15 pm. She had struggled with the pancreatic cancer for the last few months and her time had come. There will be a service for her in Virginia on Saturday at 11 am. It's tough...it sucks but we all know life goes on. And as my cousin said, when he was 5, "it's part of the cicle of life". So I believe we should celebrate her life and ours!