Nome.....ice melting....open water!!! The green tundra is coming!

The village Koyuk

Leaving for Koyuk

Leaving for the village of Koyuk this morning,will be back at the end of the week.

This was waiting in Iran's chair at church this morning

If I ONLY would have had my camera today. Pastor Bruce sent me this one. When we walked into church today there were American flags all in the entry way...and on Iran's chair was this note "Reserved for Iran Susunaga" and there were three American Flags on the back of his chair...it put a big smile on Iran's face!

IRAN'S CITIZENSHIP!

I love this picture...it is Iran registering to vote!

This is a copy of the ticket I got for not paying the full amt to park. I was in such a hurry to get to the ceremony since the immigration office gave us literally less than 1 hr to be at the Anchorage Federal building. We had to go through all the security for the ceremony.... I dropped Iran off and drove in circles to find a place to park)...and did not have the change even after asking four people for change for a $100 dollar bill, just knew I would have this waiting for me when we got out..and sure enough. Oh well...at the time...I was in such a hurry to get to the ceremony for fear of missing it....oh well it was worth it!

Iran and I fly out tomorrow night for Anchorage. He takes his citizenship test Wednesday morning, fingerprints on Thursday and Lord willing.....be sworn in as an American citizen Friday. Eight LONG years in the waiting. 

We filled yet another card!

I think these Bonanza gas cards are rather an insult. Gas is like 6 bucks a gallon here. I have showed one of these before, but I have to again because it is so funny to me. You spend a MINIMUM of $25 to get a sticker. Each FULL $25 you get a sticker.  When I mean minimum I have spent $48 getting what seems just a few gallons and I only have gotten one sticker. I have MANY times spent $35 or more but...just one sticker.  Why you ask do we only get a little gas...sometimes when we are going on "long" trips we have to top the tank off. But we are really trying to wait till we need a full tank! So spend a minimum of $750 and get a whopping $5 off your next tank of gas!

Getting warmer and beautiful here!!

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muskox!

I have had to work extra hours at work due to a work project...but I plan on getting some pictures of what ol' Nome is looking like this week. :)

WOW!! BLOGGER HAS TOTALLY CHANGED THE "BLOGGING SITE"! I TRIED TO GO IN AND FIX MY PICTURES SO THEY ARE SIDE BY SIDE AND A PERSON DOES NOT HAVE TO VIEW MULTIPLE PAGES TO LOOK AT THEM....BUT I SEEMED TO HAVE MESSED EVERYTHING UP AND GIVEN THE BLOG A WHOLE NEW LOOK WITHOUT FIXING THE PROBLEM I ORIGINALLY TRIED TO FIX. OH THE TRIALS I GO THROUGH BECAUSE I AM NOT A COMPUTER PERSON. HOPE THIS BLOG BACK GROUND IS TOLERABLE!

Here is what is looks like in Nome this week.

I thought this "Eskimo man and his dog"  carved out of beach wood (I think) was so cool.....I saw it from the road and thought it was a real person!