This is in Delta Alaska. The sun has returned and so have my shorts. Due to the overly cramped conditions inside Carols wardrobe space she has yet to find hers shorts. Carol says that this is my fault as I told her we would not not need warm clothes. She has been buying jumpers and warm jackets since we left California.
The sun being out for 20 hours a day has another effect in Alaska. Peoples roofs start to grow. So the common phrase heard arond these parts is "Honey I am just going out to mow the roof."
Followed by " Can you remember where I left the mower?"
"It is in the middle of the roof where you left it dear"
We will be visiting the North Pole today. This is a small town near Fairbanks that changed it's name in the hope that a toy making company would set up there. [ Made in North Pole?]. No toy makers but lots of tacky Santa and Christmas stuff.
After this we will be around Fairbanks for a Pow-wow and the Eskimo Olympics where we will see tests of pain, endurance and agility which have been handed down for centuries in Arctic villages. Some, like seal skinning and fish cutting contests, require practical skills for which competitors must have a good grasp of their native past. Others, like the ear pull,
are as harsh as the Arctic environment that spawned them, demanding such high tolerance of pain they were once banned by missionaries because of their potential for crippling and maiming
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