Parade in the Tundra

When you think of a parade you think of hot summer days, drinking cold lemonade, and catching a couple of pieces of candy and watching the cool floats. Well they do it in Barrow too. It is a little different in Barrow but it is still the same concept. Instead of being hot it was about -10 degrees, instead of drinking lemonade our noses got slightly frozen, it rained candy and instead of floats there were trucks with signs on them. The parade was about 20 floats long and that was just long enough because it was cold!!!!

Meanwhile we have been celebrating other events during the Spring festival, Piuraagiaqta and having a blast. Cassandra participated in a cross country ski race, Brit won MVP at the basketball awards, Meredith, Trevor, and Brit saw a couple of speakers at the new science building in Barrow, and Cassandra and Kristian saw a snowmobile race in town. We also stopped by the Heritage Center for the craft show it was awesome because there was also a book sale going on and a couple of us picked up some awesome books. I bought one called "Cat-a-louge", a book about cats! (I'm not one of those cat loving people but it had a couple of great quotes so I HAD to get it). We also went through the museum at the Heritage Center and saw many pictures and artifacts that had to do with whaling. This was exciting because it is something that is going on right now in town.

Last night a couple of us saw the Northern Lights at about 2 AM! They were not super bright but they were there. It was sooo cool.

All in all we are staying pretty busy up here and having a great time doing it! We are experiencing new things and meeting new people and its so cool. We miss our families and someone seems to be skyping with some family member or another after school at any given time, so I think we will still keep having fun!

Quyanaq (thank you in Inupiaq) for reading!
Meredith