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I’m sitting here in the Minneapolis airport waiting for my flight to Duluth. I found a plug in near my gate to charge my laptop and ipod up with while I wait. There are a lot of people looking for outlets. I have had probably 10 people walk by looking for a plug-in as well. There are two plugs on this outlet; unfortunately the second one is broken somehow. It’s like there is something jammed in one of the connection slots. You can’t get your plug into it. Oh wait, make that 11 people. So my flight went really well. When I checked in I told them that I had a first class ticket for my return flight from MSP to ANC, and that I would really rather fly first class on the way down, so I could sit with my wife on the way back up. I explained that she had a coach ticket and so on. So he did a little looking in the computer, and said he couldn’t switch my ticket coming back up to a coach seat because they were completely booked, but he upgraded me to first class anyway, and told me that I shouldn’t have a problem talking someone into trading seats with me on the way back up. No I am left with the dilemma of still having a first class seat on the way back up, and weather I should give up that comfort to sit with Erin. 🙂 We’ll see if she can convince me to give up living the high life or not. I watched a couple movies on the flight, one on the computer, and one on the ipod. I have decided I really really need to get another battery for my computer. These ones really don’t last very long. It took both my batteries to get through one movie. So that’s a little disheartening. It was nice to have the video ipod to fall back on when the “big screen” went out on me.

Last night we ended up going to the theater to watch Harry Crapper, and got there about 5 minutes after the movie had started. Now mind you not the credits, because we know there is like a half an hour of credits before movies, so we asked about that and the person selling tickets told us that it had actually started. So we ended up buying tickets for the 7:00 PM show, and went out to dinner. We decided to go to the Outback. It’s like two blocks from the theater, so we just left our car at the theater and walked over. (12 people looking for an outlet now) Dinner was tasty, I had prime rib that was really good. Katie nibbled on some fettuccini alfredo, since she is still recovering from losing her smart teeth. So after dinner we walked back over to the theater and got there early enough to get the best seats in the house. The movie was pretty good. Even though I am not a Harry Crapper fan. After that mom was in the mood for another movie, so we ended up going right into “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”. It was also a good movie. We didn’t get back to the hotel till about 1:00 A.M., so it made it a short night for getting up to catch the plane this morning.

I just got a VTC request in from Laura a teacher at NACTEC. Its crazy to think that there are people that don’t get this time off. I feel bad for them. It’s nice to have a break. I got that scheduled and updated on the VTC calendar. That is one thing that is tough to get behind on. I got to a point there where I would schedule them the day they happened, and that ended up causing some problems. I am going to try to not let that happen next semester.

Well for the rest of my time here in the Minneapolis Airport, I think I’ll be surfing the web, maybe watching a movie or something.

Christmas Presents

Erin and I picked out one of Steve Richardsons pictures for my mom for Christmas. We hid it behind on of the pictures hanging on the wall at our house in Valdez. So a couple nights ago since I was getting ready to head down to MN, I figured it was time it surprise her with it. So I went and pulled the picture out from behind the picture and brought it over to her at the dinner table. She immediately grabbed it all excited and held it directly over one of the candles that were on the table. I kind of foresaw that happening, and was quick to move it out of the flame before it was burned. Here is a picture of mom with the picture after the close encounter with the flame.
So we are now in Anchorage and about to head out for a little shopping and maybe catch a movie. I’ll probably end up going to the Harry Crapper movie since the rest of the family loves that little magic guy. Well looks like we are taking off. Catch ya later.

A beautiful day

I am sitting in the chair in the living room that my dad made. It’s pretty comfortable. I took a look out the window a minute ago, and saw an abundance of blue sky. One of those days where you see how beautiful Valdez can be. Katie and I might go take a few pictures while we have the chance.
We take off for Anchorage tomorrow morning. Katie is getting her wisdom teeth out tomorrow afternoon. Poor girl, she won’t even be able to go out for dinner while we are in town. I think we might hit a movie and do a little shopping. Hopefully Katie won’t be in too much pain.
Haven’t done a whole lot since I’ve been home. I’m still really tired and have been trying to catch up on sleep.
Katie and I went out and took pictures today. The mountains look pretty cool on a sunny day. We are now going to watch the third episode of Lost. So I had better get going.

The Last Night

Well the Thanksgiving week is coming to an end. It is amazing how fast time flies some times. Today was nice and realaxing. Erin and I hung around the house while everyone esle went out and about around town. Aron, Robin and Mark all went up to the pass to do a little snowboarding. They were only able to get one run in an hour because the wind was howling at a brisk 40 miles an hour. I guess the visabilty was a little questionable. Mom and dad took off for a little snowshoeing and Katie went to the library to work on a 10 page paper she has due next week. I don’t konw if I should be taking breaks like this. I am getting a little too used to sleeping in and not having to do anything. I hope I can get back into the swing of things in a timely fashion when I get back to Unalakleet. I will be a fast and furious week with the wrestling and volleyball tournaments coming up next weekend. I get to fly to Stebbins with a few students and PK to broadcast the volleyball games live to the district. At the same time Randy and John will be broadcasting the regional wrestling tournament to the other districts in Alaska that are sending schools to the regional tournament. The following Monday I am heading back to Anchorage to work on setting up a course BSSD will be conjointly running with Southwest Region School District. I guess we are going to start Elf up here in a little bit, so I should run.

Thanksgiving

Sitting around with friends and family. The Holdens drove down from Fairbanks today. Its nice to hang out with them talking about old times. Mark Standley and his two kids Aaron and Robin will be getting in sometime this evening. It’s going to be a bit of a full house. My friend Josh Steadman also came down from Fairbanks. It’s fun to hang out with him. Living up in Unalakleet makes it a little difficult to hang out with old friends.

I am pretty excited about getting everyone set up with blogs, and the photo gallery. I hope people get a chance to look around at our family pictures, and read a little into our lives. I hope it is something that you find interesting. My future posts will hopefully be a little more exciting to read.