It's Not An Adventure Until Something Goes Wrong: Spring Fever

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Spring Fever

I believe last time I posted was while our water was out. The school's water continued to be off for another week after our water started working again, so it was off for a total of about 2 weeks. We went through a lot of baby wipes, and you can only imagine what it smelled like in the vicinity of the bathrooms. Shortly after that was fixed, our heat went out once again. It went off in the evening and we weren't able to get ahold of maintenance until around 1:00 the next day. Our house was about 45 degrees when we woke up, so we used the oven to heat the house. Since then, things on the maintenance front have gone smoothly.

School has been hectic because there has been quite a bit of alcohol in the village so some students aren't getting much sleep, plus the sun has been out until after 9:00 so students are staying out later and later. Yesterday was the end of the 3rd quarter, conferences are on Thursday, and State Testing starts next week (conveniently on April Fools Day).

In the last few weeks we haven't gone on any major adventures, but the weather has been getting nicer and it has started getting warmer out during the day. We had a few days where we got a lot of snow, but by now there are places where it has already melted away. We're starting to see more wildlife now that it's getting warmer, and the birds are starting to return. The trees are starting to bud, and I have a feeling that within the next month things are going to start looking fresh around here.

We changed our return trip home plans again. We're still going to take the ferry, but instead of waiting around in Anchorage for a month for the ferry to come, after a week in Anchorage we are going to fly to Juneau and then catch the ferry there. The flight to Juneau will be sweet because it stops in Cordova and Yakutat so we'll be flying low through the mountains and it should be nice and bumpy and scenic. Then we get to spend the weekend in Juneau, and on Tuesday we get on the ferry. It is one of the biggest boats, and it will stop in Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan, and then we get off in Bellingham. I'm really excited because we will get home a week earlier, and we'll get to see even more places than we originally planned.

Here are some pictures of the last few weeks: