Videos from the Great North Adventure

I thought you all may enjoy some videos of my adventure walking to school the other day...

Here we are all getting geared up and ready to go to school:

We called this morning and said we couldn't see the village and we were afraid of walking this morning so the VP, Dawn, sent the "school bus". This is a video of us waiting for bus driver Merle to come pick us up.

These are videos of the wind and the view of the village from right behind my apartment

The wind blows hard:

There is a village down there I promise -

Here are some pengins trying to keep warm!

Here we are all getting into the "school bus":

This is a long one, but it is the WHOLE ride into school. This walk would have taken about 45 minutes due to the wind and blinding snow.

The walk in the light is a lot less dangerous and more fun because the wind is at your back! Here are some videos of Ashley and I on the way home:

Adventures in the Great White North!!

Let's start back at Christmas. My friend David came up to visit me. We spent a week here in Gambell and then a week in Anchorage. The week in Anchorage was a lot more fun. We did manage to have some fun while we were here. He even got the pleasure of fish for dinner on Christmas Eve! My mom sent him with dried Cod and Anchovies. I already had shrimp here so we got 3 out of the 7 fish, but it made me miss home a little less! Also while he was here we went exploring on the on beach. Here are some pics of our adventures:


I am standing in front of some bog ice chunks that have washed up on shore.
Here is the sea washing big pieces of ice onto the beach.



This is a picture of the sea ice actually UNDER the water. The waves wash over the ice and push some of it under!
Puffin got cold so I had to carry her after a while.
Then she got really cold so I carried her like a kangaroo inside my jacket. Her face was all frosted over and she was literally get blown around by the wind!


Here is David and I after our walk. We were certainly a little COLD!




On Christmas Eve, we flew out to Anchorage and I sure hope David wasn't looking for a vacation because I made him go EVERYWHERE! We saw a ton of moose all along the way. Every time we saw one, I made David pull over so I could take some pictures of them.
Here is a pic of one of them (I know it looks like a horse, but trust me):



We even drove down to Homer for a day. It was 6 hours each way, but it was really awesome. We saw a million Eagles!



Did you know an eagle can move its head nearly 360 degrees?



Here is a big one just chilling out and walking around:













The beach was beautiful so David thought he should put his feet in the water:





We also hiked about 2 miles in thigh deep snow for an absolutly Amazing view of Mount McKinnley!!!
Puffin got a haircut while we were in Anchorage. Isn't she BEAUTIFUL!!!

So onto more recent events...SNOW!!! Some days the wind blows so hard that the there is a ton of snow INSIDE our doorway and when we do get to open our door there is just a wall of snow blocking our exit. To get around this, we shovel the snow into totes and dump it into the bathtub. These pictures are of our adventure before we got to walk to school:

Also, we had to use TWO tubs - my apartments and my neighbors.

This is the AFTER - didn't we do a great job :)