Living It Up in the Great Land

We have reached that time of year when the energy level in Alaska really starts to ramp up.  The sun is shining for well over 15 hours each day.  And folks are ready to make the most of those daylight hours! 
The bright blue sky is so vast and brilliant, you can forget that the ground is still carpeted in white in many places.  Each day, another patch of lawn can be seen peeking out from beneath the drifts.  Soon, the snow will be a distant memory. 

It'll be another couple weeks at least before the world magically turns green overnight.  But for now, the gorgeous blue sky that can be enjoyed late into the evening hours is good enough.

We have begun taking walks around the neighborhood in the evening hours before Alicia has to head to bed on school nights.  So far, we head further up the mountain for a little ways.  I need to work up to being able to walk down the mountain and then still make it back up the hill to get home!  Baby steps... 

Alicia and her girlfriend auditioned to be in the elementary school talent show in May. They will be doing the salsa. The school is a Spanish immersion school. So, their teacher taught them to do the salsa last fall. They are really cute to watch. Maybe I'll see if I can upload a little video here after the show.

This past weekend was full of Girl Scout activities. Our troop visited the Alaska Aviation Museum and learned about women in flight from our friend, Mrs. Alaska.

After that, we threw a birthday party at the local family homeless shelter as our annual community service project. Everybody had a great time!

In other great news, we have finally located our wheelbarrow which had been missing since November.  Who knows what shorter treasures we'll find once the rest of the snow melts away!