Family Photo

I have to take the time to post the following picture. My three closest friends up here and I decided to have a family portrait taken with the mascot, the Nanook bear. It was taken back in October but we finally got our hands on it! Leah is in the hat, Ben in the red and Marilyn is on the bottom left!

I would also like to take a minute and make a shout-out to my UNCLE BEN and say thanks for the advice to bundle up when I go outside up here! What would I do without you?!

End of the first semester!

This semester has gone by so fast!!! Monday is our last day of classes and then I have two finals and I'm done!! Everything is still going pretty well. The sun comes up around 10:40 (right nowish) and sets at 2:45! It is pretty cool to experience, but I'm ready for dinner at 3 and bed at 5 which isn't quite right! It is interesting getting out of class at 10:15 and the sun hasn't come up yet! The high sofar for today is -7 but it didn't feel too cold walking to class this morning. It is very dry here and I think the cold in Maine feels a lot colder than it does here. Everything is full of static electricity!!

Here I am yesterday at 2:15 pm watching the sun set!

Sunset again

We took a drive to North Pole to visit Santa!!!!

North Pole, Alaska! It's about 15 miles away from Fairbanks!