We had a quiet Christmas. Rod and Aud got off work early on the 24th, and Christmas Eve we had our traditional "Wassill"and watched the Polar Express then the Mormon Tab. Choir with Sissil. Everyone opened one present. Christmas we all slept in!! Yahoo. We got going about 10:30 or so, letting Dave and Emma dive in. We all got more that we needed. Rod got some tools to play in his garage with and clothes. Mary sent him an awesome hat from England. I'll post a pic sometime soon. We made a lovely breakfast, and then even got a nap in the afternoon. Later that Eve we went to some friends, the Hansens, for Christmas dinner . It was very relaxing and a lot of fun.
It's been chilly (not Cold) and is the darkest part of the year now...but the good news, we're gaining light every day! We did get snow so the kids had fun sledding in the back yard. Over all it was very nice, we missed the rest of the gang not being with us, but hey, maybe next year??.
Thurs night we went to Anchorage and stayed with Aud and the kids. Dave has a hockey tournament this week-end. We watched the game on Fri. and then Emma, Rod and I headed north to Fairbanks. Jenny and Garry and fam are moving to the air base up there. Yea, over Christmas (what Christmas? they might say). So we wanted to go north and see them, maybe even help them unload their moving van. Funny thing on the way though, the lights on the ole "Burb" kept flickering. They got progressively worse until about 15 miles out of Fairbanks , and about midnight, they gave up the ghost and left us stranded. Stranded on the Parks Hyw in northern AK in the end of Dec in the middle of the night, in the COLD . Good times.
Of course we were being watched over and one of the local natives soon rescued us and gave us a ride in to Fairbanks to our hotel where it was safe and WARM.
At present, Rod and Garry are out and about getting parts so we can get going again. Thanks to Garry for giving us his daylight hours,( which aren't many). With trying to get into a house and all it is very nice of him to come to our rescue. So this posting is really from the TOP of the World!
3 comments:
oh man!!! bummer!! at least you get to see jen and garry, and you were only 15 miles from fairbanks!!
love you! tell them all hello!
wow. that is quite an alaskan christmas eh? tell them all hello! hope you get the burb running good, wouldn't want to get stranded any further away...or at all for that matter!
hey i see you learned how to get a cool background, help me get one! i really like audreys as well...-cass
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