My journey has begun. I am sitting in the Alaska Airlines Board Room right now waiting for my flight to Seattle and then on to San Francisco for the beginning of the adventure. The Concilus’ made it safely back from Bali. They are pretty tired out since it is almost 5:00 AM tomorrow in Bali. I am planning on taking a lot of pictures, and posting them during the week. I will try to get a daily update of what’s going on. More to come later…
My journey has begun. I am sitting in the Alaska Airlines Board Room right now waiting for my flight to Seattle and then on to San Francisco for the beginning of the adventure. The Concilus’ made it safely back from Bali. They are pretty tired out since it is almost 5:00 AM tomorrow in Bali. I am planning on taking a lot of pictures, and posting them during the week. I will try to get a daily update of what’s going on. More to come later…
Christmas is coming to a close here in a couple hours. It was a pretty packed 24 hours. Last night we went over to Rick and Sue’s place (Erin’s aunt and uncle) for Christmas Eve festivities. The whole Aune clan was there. There was a little food to be eaten, and some presents to exchange. They do boy and girl gifts. All the boys bring one present, and all the girls bring one present. Then every boy draws a number and every girl draws a number, and when your number is called you grab a present from the boy pile if your a boy, and from the girl pile if your a girl. We left there and headed over to an 11:00 PM church service in Cook. That lasted until a little after midnight, which put us back at Erin’s house at 1:00 AM. So it was a late night. This morning we were up around 6:45 AM, and did the present opening thing. I was lucky enough to get a sweatshirt, a knife, a fossil watch, and some candy. We went over to her grandparents place (for those of you that don’t know, that’s a 10 second walk) and watched Erin’s cousins’ kids who are 4 and almost 2 open their presents from Santa. We chatted for a bit, and then it was time to head over to the other end of the lake to Erin’s mom’s house. We had a nice dinner over there, and opened presents. Erin and I got a feather bed, a new phone for our place (ours was on its last legs), I got a sweatshirt, and an iTunes gift card. Erin got a bracelet, some tootsie rolls, cocoa, and some perfume. After that we played the DVD version of “Trivial Pursuit”. Then it was time to head back over here. When we got back we watched a little bit of the Vikings game, I heard they ended up losing, and Erin has been uploading some pictures to the gallery. Hope you all like them. I am now tired out and ready to hit the sack. I hope everyone else’s Christmas was nice an relaxing.
We have about 100 miles left on our drive to Anchorage. Katie is getting her smart teeth taken out, and she has to also do all of her Christmas shopping. It is a really nice day out. Not a cloud in the sky. I’ll post some pictures on the gallery if you want to take a look at them.
We are listening to the audio book “Deception Point” by Dan Brown. It says there is only about 12 minutes left, but we still have a lot of the story left to tell. I hope it doesn’t stop on us part way through.
My toes have been cold for the last 150 miles, but I don’t want to have the heat turned up because I don’t like riding in a really warm car. It can kind of get me carsick. So I try to wiggle them and get the blood flowing to warm them up.
We saw a few moose on the drive, but that was a long way back. It was still pretty dark out, and closer to Valdez. We just saw a fox a little bit ago, so it has been a pretty interesting drive.
We are going by rabbit valley right now. It’s a place alongside the rode that is a little valley going up into the mountains. The valley has really steep sides, and very little room along the base. I hear they call it rabbit valley is because people used to hunt rabbits there. They would walk up the valley, and the rabbits would try to run away, with the sides so steep, they rabbits had a hard time climbing them quickly, and with very little cover it was easy to shoot them. It made for a pretty sure way to get some dinner.
Well it is official the audio book ran out in the middle of the story. How lame is that? I’ll have to check to see if I did something wrong when I was joining the tracks together.
I have been stumbling a lot lately on the Internet. There is a plug-in for Firefox called “Stumble”. It puts a button on your browser window that when you click it, it takes you to a random website. So its pretty interesting what you find. One I found last night that I thought was pretty interesting was a flash animation of someone drawing. Here is the link if you are interested. Its pretty amazing to see how artistic some people are.
With only one week left before Christmas break I find my self sitting here wondering what happened to the last few months. I can’t believe how fast this fall has gone. I have spent my weekend relaxing. I really haven’t done a whole lot. I slept in both days, which was really needed. I can’t remember that last time I was able to sleep in. The last two weekends I have been busy.
We didn’t have a broadcast last week. The kids didn’t get their work done while I was gone, so we had to cancel. I was pretty bummed out about that. The kids had a lot longer than usual, and they still didn’t get it done. I know they need a lot of support and guidance, but I kind of thought after doing eight broadcasts they would be able to pull it off. So that gears us up for this last broadcast of 2005. We have a couple stories that could be great depending on how the kids end up editing them up. One is an interview with a couple scientists, one that exhumed the bodies in Brevig Mission years ago to study the 1918 flu pandemic, an the other is the scientist that took what he recovered and grew it in a lab, and linked it to the modern day bird flu. The other interview is with a 17-year-old student from Savoonga who was the striker on a whaling boat that got a whale last week. They are both pretty long interviews, so I think they are going to edit them down to a couple minute pieces, for the news show, but then work hard on doing a longer one for a more documentary type production. We’ll have them posted as separate vodcasts. I don’t know when the documentary type vodcasts will be finished, but the news broadcast will be live Wednesday morning at 8:30.
The one thing I have done this weekend more than anything else is use my new Bose Quite Comfort 2 headphones. I am very happy Erin talked me into buying these. With all the noise that is involved in a tournament like this from the loud music that must be played to hype up the players to the cheering and yelling by not only the fans but the players as well, it is imparative to have a way to escape the chaos. When things hit the fan it helps not to be distracted while trying to resolve the issue. There were a couple of times when our conferences completly tanked on us requiring some quick work to minimize the downtime for our audience.
The tournament is going quite well. We are in the last match of the weekend. We just finished the championships with Unalakleet taking the victory. With Golovin losing to them set us up with a manditory “true second place” match where the second and thrid place teams play eachother to decide who should be the other team to travel to the state tournament in Anchorage. Right now Golovin is down 1 games to 0 with the score in teh second game at Galena 10 Golovin 6. Doesn’t look good for Golovin.
After this match I am hoping to get our gear packed up for the evening, and nessle into my sleeping back with either book or some surfing of the world wide web. 🙂
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