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Kayla's Parkie Ruff (Beaver, Wolverine, Wolf)

We got home yesterday after visiting family on our break. This is the first time on our way through Anchorage where we didn't do any shopping. Boy was that nice. We were able to run up to Palmer and visit at Aaron and Helen's. Bradley, Tim and Andrea, Becca, Luke, and all the kids were there too. We didn't stay too long because we knew that 3:30 am wake-up call was going to come all to soon
As we were leaving Anchorage the pilot announced, "Temperature in Kotz, -20 F." Joy.
Getting off the plane in Kotz the temp didn't feel that cold though. We managed to get on the morning flight out of Kotz to Noatak, so that was pretty nice. We touched down in Noatak to the balmy temperature of -30 F. It felt pretty cold. I woke up this morning to -40 F on the thermometer. I was hoping I might be able to get out on these few more days of break, but it doesn't look like that will be happening. Maybe I'll try to ski so that I don't get so cold.
We had a lot of fun on our trip back. It felt like we didn't really do anything but were busy the whole time. Oren really enjoyed his Grandma's and Grandpa's and Aunt's and Uncle's. I'm sure he would not have been put down if we wouldn't have let him have a couple breaks.
It did feel rally nice to get back to Noatak. We landed at about 11 am. I tried to stay up as late as I could, but it was only about 3 pm before I hit the sack for the night. I slept until 5:30 am. I haven't slept that long in a long time.

-40F

It is Sunday night now and I haven't seen the thermometer above -35F. Its kind of funny because when its this cold nobody really drives their machines. It is eerily quiet around town. Everybody just hunkers down to wait it out.

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