November 25, 2012

Bits of Fairbanks

 Above is just a pic of the city from the freeway. It was about noon and you can see how close the sun is to the horizon.
 I have no idea what this building is but it's shut down. When the sun is out this thing is BRIGHT pink. Ugliest building ever!
 This is a local antique shop.
 There are so many of these damn ravens around. I can't help but laugh when I see them because they're seriously obese! There are dozens of them in the walmart parking lot. Last year we saw one carry away an entire subway sandwich while this guys back was turned.
Haven't been here but the building is interesting. There are a lot of buildings that have pictures painted on them. It's definitely a different feel than the ones back home.
 
 
The weather here has been around 15 below. I honestly didn't even understand what that meant before coming here. Your skin actually stings when you step out, it really does hurt! The people here are used to it though. The kids can go out for recess up to 20 below. Everyone just survives it somehow. For halloween they just buy the costumes really big so kids can wear snow suits underneath. Snow pants, boots, gloves and hats are absolutely required at school. Isaac came home last week spouting off facts about frost bite. Apparently they had speakers come to the school and tell them ALL about it. We're doing okay for now but I definitely don't want to be here long. At least we will have adventures to tell after all of this military life is done with :)

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