Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Breakup!


Well, after a long, long winter, the ice on the Kuskokwim river has finally broken up!! No more ice highway, no more river dog-races, no more manaquing (ice-fishing). Unfortunately, the time we picked for our ice classic tickets was off by a few days, since the tripod fell a couple of days ago. But there was a big celebration down at the river tonight... hotdogs (of course), music, and almost everybody in town. The boys enjoyed tossing rocks in the river, and walking among the crowd. Before you know it the first barges will be pulling into town.... the geese and ducks are here, the tundra is all green, and the mosquitoes aren't quite here yet. Spring has sprung... and we are down to just over one week left in Bethel.

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