Alaska #5

1. Starting today I have eight straight days of 6:00 in the morning shifts. Maybe I will actually get used to waking up that early now :).

2. I'm pretty sure I sprained my peroneus brevis tendon when I twisted my ankle hard the other day. Since then it has survived a 4 mile round trip to the bank, a whole day of shopping in Fairbanks, and another 3 mile trip to the post office and then Jessie's house. I should probably stop going places for a while.

3. There are 5o million caterpillars living in the plants outside our kitchen. They are everywhere! If you don't watch where you put your feet when you walk you will probably squish one every other step. I'm not even exaggerating that much.

4. The standing joke up here is that wood frogs make the best pets. All you have to do when you go on vacation is throw them in the freezer :).

5. Jess and I have babysat for Jessie and Keith twice now. It's the easiest babysitting I've ever done. Cecy and Lance are super shy and want nothing to do with me, so Jess takes care of them and I hold Mitchell. Also Jessie and Keith always make sure they are home in time to put the kids to bed. I get the feeling they don't leave their kids much.

6. The other night after Keith and Jessie came home and put the kids to bed we all played Hand and Foot, talked, and listened to the kids music album that the Bare Naked Ladies did because Jessie said it was hilarious (and it was :). Keith insisted that that band had been on Sesame Street, but Jessie didn't believe him so he decided to look it up and pulled out his phone. Then he exclaimed, "Bare Naked Ladies probably isn't the best Google search, huh?" So he handed the phone to Jessie and she looked it up, just in case :). (In case you were wondering, they have done a song on Sesame Street but it wasn't the one Keith was thinking of. So they were both right).

7. It was actually warm and sunny enough that I got a little bit of a sunburn the other day. I never knew a sunburn could feel so good :).

8. Some interesting last names from the tour group we got in today: Speshynskiy, Zaikovskiene, Abdurakhmanov, and Puluikiene, among others. I'm not sure where they were from, but I'm glad I didn't have to try to pronounce their names.

9. We sell Jimmie Dean breakfast sandwiches in our office, and I am getting addicted to the sausage and egg croissant ones. They are pretty much amazing.

10. The last time I checked my PO Box the topmost piece of mail was a catalog addressed to Keith Clark. I happened to be going to their house after that, so I just brought it with me. Apparently I have his parents' old box. Random.

11. There are probably 8 or 9 different companies that do flightseeing around here, so we have about as many planes flying overhead as if we lived next to an international airport (at least one of the ones in Alaska). There is also an Air Force base in Fairbanks, and they have been doing fighter plane training the past few weeks. When they fly over the ground shakes and it's as loud as it is at Stadium of Fire when they do the National Anthem flyover.