Christmas

Well, we just returned to Stebbins after spending the holidays in Ashford and Graham. The picture above was actually taken in Ashford where we got about two feet of snow over the break. That's Katy and Roslyn enjoying the warm weather and trying to get a sun tan. We had a really good time visiting with our families, sledding, snowboarding and going to a Sonics game. However, most of our time was spent eating at either Connie's Diner in Ashford or visiting other restaurants like, Red Robin x 2, Wendys 2, The Rock, Jamba Juice, Starbucks etc...
Our return to Alaska was a bit of rude awakening. When we got into Nome it was negative 20 degrees outside. A change of about 50 degrees from the balmy 30 degrees in Ashford. We got home to find that our next door neighbor and fellow teacher who had been taking care of our apartment and cats over break had left the window open overnight. The downstairs of our apartment had basically frozen solid. Luckily we had the heat on upstairs which stayed relatively warm and everything in the house, including the cats, recovered.
Basketball season is now in full swing. I will be traveling this Friday to a village about an hours flight south of us called Chevak to play our first basketball game. The team is excited and looking forward to the game, I think that we are ready.
We hope everyone had a great holiday and we will talk to you soon.