News Years Weekend Adventure

Our New Years weekend was spent camping in the frigid -17 degree conditions of the Alaskan outback. Snow machining, sledding, Candy Land and fireworks abounded. It was a fun adventure in spite of the copius amounts of vomit and poo (not mine. Though it probably would have been easier to deal with if it where....). You can read the full story here.

This is a picture of an Alaskan winter sunrise. It was almost lunchtime. We currently only receive about four hours of usable daylight at this time of year. However, we are gaining almost a minute of extra daylight each day now.

This is Jordan all bundled up with nothing to do. It was -12 degrees. We didn't stay out very long. In fact, Darrin ended up with frost bite under his left eye. But then again, he spent a lot more time outside than we did. The kids and I preferred playing Hot Wheels and eating junk food in the camper to loosing patches of skin to the elements.

Joshy was pleased as punch to be outside. He didn't seem to mind the cold and enjoyed watching everyone preparing for the big snow machine ride. Our group had nearly 20 machines out there. Who put pink gloves on that boy?

Typical Alaskan scenery. It's hard to complain about the weather (too much) when we have this to look at every day.