Blah blah blog

yep thats how I feel about my blog these days. I love reading everyones blogs but I just feel blah about writing mine. Maybe its because I have worked 13 of the last 14 days. Im not complaining about that it just means that I have been busy. I just got back from the village of Nulato, it really is one of my least favorite villages that I have been in so far. Stebbins is a nice village, it right on the coast and it is just a nice little village. I got a really cool basket while I was there. I should take a picture of it and post it, but that would mean finding my camera.

I am not off to any villages this week, but I will be in training all if this week. I do have the weekend off and then I have another training the week after that and then it is off the another village and then the week after that we will be in a different village every day for the next 2 weeks and then its a quick trip home for my brothers wedding a nd then more training when I get back...my work schedule is full until almost the end of may and that doesn't even have anyfires in there......

Stebbins

I am off to Stebbins Alaska for the next 4 days, 5 of us from work are headed out to teach S-130/190 which are the basic fire fighter training classes. Hopefully it is a good time and we dont get stuck out there because of bad weather...that has happened before

Hopefully all goes well!! The best part is that it means that I get to earn some overtime, nothing like a little OT on the first paycheck of the year

Way up north

Well I made it back to the great northern state of AK.

The drive was pretty good. I had a little bit of bad weather here and there but nothing to horrible.
I drove up what is called the cassier highway and it was beautiful. Not a road for speed but beautiful. I didn't take many pictures because there wasn't really anyplace to pull over and take pictures, there was a ton of snow along the sides and I didn't want to stop and then get run over.

This weekend was pretty eventful...well more eventful than the weekends when I am in Hibbing.

Fri: went to a wine tasting for 35 dollars you got to sample over 100 wines and eat lots of yummy food, plus you got a gift certificate for 10 off a bottle of wine. I tasted some wines that I probably would never have tasted if I hadn't been at this tasting....like the $100 bottles...I will probably never buy them but they were good. After that we headed over to check out some ice sculptures...well the world championship ice sculptures, like that kind where they use chainsaws and are super detailed. Then after that we went over to the bar on campus and hung out for a beer

Sat: Didn't do much during the day hung out at the bookstore for a bit, then that night a group of us went to see the Vagina M@nol@uges, they were pretty good, some funny some that I thought were kind of stupid.... but overall a good time. Then we headed to the irish bar in fairbanks where we had 2 beers and then left because the music was way to loud.

Sun: Went to sunday brunch at a local resturant then to the grocery store, next I am going to go for a run since it is above freezing and not snowing

Mon; I have to go to work booooooooooo!!!!!!!

on the road

I am about to be on the road north....I am getting ready to leave Seattle and head up towards prince george, bc or at least try to get that far today. Then I am headed up the cassiar highway and then on to alaska from there.

Wish me luck (for good weather)

Driving

I have spent the last 2 days driving across the country. I am now in Missoula MT. The drive has been good. Nice weather (thats for you dad) no snow or anything, actually i have been suprised how little snow there has been on the ground. I expected more in the mountains

here are a couple things I have noted

1. I love the mountains, love, love love them. I in my opinion, once you have lived in the mountains you will always miss them when you don't live in them

2. I love pomegranate.......


3. I hate people that don't know how to set there cruise control

4. I miss my satellite radio subscription.... I didn't renew it this fall cuz it doesn't work in AK but am really wishing I still had it

Well I am going to go out for a run......and then head over to finish up this leg of my drive. I am off to visit my sister and to make sure that dana really is still alive