March 10, 2009 Some Photos and Updates

I thought I would post a couple of photos. Two are from the Native Musical (Scott doing an object lesson for the kids and the other is of Jeremiah playing a tag game and this little native girl hooked onto him and wouldn't let go. Too cute!!) and one is of the boyz on the day they went riding on the snow machines. We call them snow mobiles and they call them snow machines here although I have learned from Samantha (my native friend from Hooper Bay) that they are called snow-go's. :-) We have also learned that we are called chichaco's...meaning "newcomer" and that you have to do something major to become an Alaskan. After a while (2 years or so) if you don't do anything to become an Alaskan, then you most likely become a "sour dough" which means that you become sour about living here and want to go back home but don't have the dough (money) to do so. :-) We thought that was funny. Samantha is coming over on Thursday night for dinner and she wants to teach us some of her tribal language. We are so excited. She is also going to make me a "cusbuck" which is a dress like outfit that they (the natives) wear a lot. I am so excited about that too. I couldn't believe that she wanted to do that.

We are going to some friends house tonight for dinner. We went snow machining this past weekend and Ricky (an guy from MARC) let us bring 2 of his snow machines home with us. The boys are so excited. We went out again Sunday evening and Steve (CEF Director) brought 2 of his machines over too. We had so much fun. Matthew rolled one and broke the windshield. Now we have to replace that...but he is ok. Just like his dad...ay? UUGGHHH. LOL He wasn't going fast, just tried to stop on the road area and it decided to turn over.

Shaughn cut his finger pretty bad. Almost needed stitches. He was helping cut lettuce for taco's and whack...into the finger. He said it hurts a lot. We are keeping it cleaned and covered. Hopefully it will heal up ok.

After 2 weeks of colds and stuff, we are all mostly feeling back to normal. Hard to believe that our time here is almost done. I don't think any of us are wanting to leave. We are wanting to get back and get things accomplished tho and see our friends and family. We miss our Zamu too (our cat). :-)

Scott was able to work on the King Air today, the one that had a crash landing. They have is all torn apart and hopefully will have it back up and running by May/June. That is if they can find all of the replacement parts they need. Scott hopes to have the Navajo ready or near ready to return to service too by the time we leave. He has been working hard on it.

Well, just wanted to say hi and drop a line or two. Gotta get going, don't want to be late for dinner. :-)

Bless you all!!!
Lela and boyz~