Busy People

I've been doing a lot of cakes lately. And we're busy with our normal rounds of work, school, daycare, birthday parties, Iditarod coverage, etc.

Tess is headed into the final lap of her high school career. In two months, she'll have graduated. She hasn't decided where she's going to college yet. But she has been accepted at 4 schools so far. We're just waiting to hear about financial aid packages from those to help us decide which one we might come close to being able to afford!

Iditarod Sled Dog Race

We spent the afternoon out at Willow Lake watching 71 mushers and their teams of athletes head down the trail to Nome.

It was a great day to be out on the frozen lake. Hundreds, if not thousands, of folks felt the same way. Tess brought her two little babysitting clients as their parents are working two of the checkpoints, at Yentna and Finger Lake. She's babysitting for a couple of days. It's Spring Break.

After the Restart, we stopped at the Houston Lodge for a bite to eat. We weren't actually too hungry as we'd eaten a late lunch. But it all worked out because the service at the Lodge was incredibly slow. So it took about an hour to get our food.

I'm looking forward to tracking the mushers' progress as they make their way over 1100 miles of trail to Nome.

Newtok Village Trip Report

I spent the weekend in Newtok as part of the Volunteer Tax & Loan Program through the Alaska Business Development Center. I traveled with two tax preparers who completed almost 60 tax returns for the residents of Newtok, free of charge.



The village of Newtok is located in far western Alaska near the shore of the Bering Sea. The village will be moved to a new location on Nelson Island within the next couple of years as their current location is eroding away at a rate of a foot a day.

Here is a link to some photos of that trip.

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