Good things!

Last week we spent the entire week in Bethel, which is a hub city for most of the rural villages in Alaska. We were there for an entire WEEK of inservice- yes, a full week teacher friends! Imagine that! :) Anyway, we stayed very close to the new movie theater in town which is inside Omni Swansons. Swansons is a full service grocery store--think small scale Walmart. It's as close as it gets to Walmart here in the bush! Of course we took full advantage of the nearby movie theater and saw 2 movies while we were in town.

As you can see movies aren't that much more expensive here in Alaska than they are at home. One of the very few things that doesn't have an inflated price.

We've had some good things show up at our house this week. A box-- boxes are always good! Target.com also delivers to the bush and they even have free shipping if your order is over $50. We've come to realize that they don't do nearly as good of a job with their packaging as Amazon does, but we're still happy they ship here. We will now officially have clean floors in our house. I've never been so excited to mop a floor in my entire life.

You can see the shipping label at the bottom and will also notice the letters GNU on the side. That's because after this box leaves Anchorage it isn't really traveling with a mail service anymore, it is traveling on airplanes. This box was waiting on our front porch when we got home from a late night work session at the school last night.

I'm not going to tell you what this next picture is; we're going to have a guessing competition. If you think you know what it is leave a comment with your guess! Gary, the awesome maintenance guy at the school, stopped by this evening to drop this gem off to us. He is a life saver for us in many ways, but more on that in another post.

Finally, a new recipe we tried tonight: Salmon Parmesan. It was actually pretty good, doesn't quite compare to Chicken Parmesan but it was still pretty tasty. (And much better for you than chicken parm)