Tuesday, June 17, 2008

My favorite drink - water!

Thanks, to Kim for this idea.

Here is my mosaic. It successfully killed half an hour of my time. Yay!


1. Army Lovers - Leon & Natasha, 2. Flickr meltdown, 3. from sunset to sunset - land of the midnight sun, 4. he loves me/he loves me not., 5. OUT965669, 6. When Waves Collide, 7. Iceberg, near Ilulissat, Greenland, 8. Fresh Fruit, 9. Archaeological cocktail, 10. Crossing Wapta, 11. Coyote Yellowstone N.P., 12. Dr. Sun Yat-sen Park.

Funny enough, when I type natabunny into Flickr, two of the three pictures have T in it. Alone. Interesting...

My computer is dead right now, as soon as I find some way to transfer 220V into 110V - I will charge it and update my blog with pictures and feelings. Adios.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Breaking News Off Seward Highway (no pun intended)

On June 5th, 18:53 Alaska time, people driving down Seward Highway in Anchorage witnessed a horrible accident. A green Kia Sephia collided with... its own hood! The accident resulted in shattering of the windshield and a large dent in the hood. The owner and driver of the car, who asked us not to disclose her name or haircolor, recalls that a few hours before the accident she made a deal to sell the car on Saturday.

Amazingly, some friends of the passenger were driving by. These individuals, by virtue of having a spare strap spared the owner spending some money on having the car towed. At a frightening speed of 25 mph (because everyone around is zipping by at 75 mph), the car and its unlucky owners traveled back to the headquarters where a memorial service took place...


Anyway... I guess I was too attached to this car to give it up to someone without first leaving a significant mark... I'll have to sell it as is; it has a ton of good parts in it. Bummer... Oh well...

Sasha and I were driving south on the Seward Highway to go camping. We had to camp in Dale's back yard instead. It's the company that really matters though, and Sasha and I are really getting along this week. He was amazingly supportive of me, and I would have probably had a nervous breakdown if not for his calm and thoughtful manner.

I am leaving tomorrow, and could not be more anxious.

Finally, I get to post cute pictures of Jack!!

Oh what a bitter-sweet Sunday that was!.. It would have been bitter without sweet, but all it took was putting Jack and a water hose together - and there was so much laughter! I am getting ahead of myself...

I decided to drive down to Anchorage with all my belongings on Monday, so on Sunday I spent a few last hours with my Fairbanks family. It was a nice enough day: the clouds overtook the sky by the end of it, but it was hot all day, and right before his nap Jack decided that we all needed some water, and probably rightly so :)So Jack chased us around for some time. He got me pretty good!
I don't know how Julie chooses the pictures for her blog - I just want to post all 70 that I took. He is just entirely too cute!

And how about this father-son moment? Jeff is teaching Jack a very important skill right here - tricking people by telling them you REALLY need them to come over and you REALLY are not going to spray them with water :). Jack learns this trick rather quickly and practices it on mom!


I was so sad to leave this house.. Thank you guys for being my family for a year!
Have a fantastic summer!
Jeff, Julie, Jack, Jasper, - poka!