Hi!!!! Let me begin with--We Miss You!!
We went over to "North Beach" on four wheelers to have a hot dog roast and took these pictures. Four wheelers are the main transportation here--We just purchased one so that we can go the 13 miles up the road to another town called St. Michael. We can also just get out and expolore more that way.















Norton Sound is quite shallow, so the water is a lot warmer right now than we expected. Apparently in the winter, there is a lot of ice fishing and some people even go crabbing (for king crab). We were told that you have to get down at least 6-8 feet in the ice to get to the water.





























Nick's first four wheel ride--No training wheels required. It is amazing how much these things can hold--and still make it up a hill. Nick carried two people on the back (of the four wheeler, not his back) to get to North Beach. We need to get some goggles because the dust can get pretty bad, and with contacts....well, you get the picture.















More pictures of the beach, right in front of the village.














Above: the fireweed (which you can see peeking out of the shrubs) is everywhere up here. We took this picture when we went on a hike--Everything is so green right now--We are also pretty sure that there is a lemming hole somewhere in these bushes. Nick is hard at work on making a lemming trap.

Below: The School! The school is fourteen years old, but looks brand new inside and out.














Below: Murals painted on the walls:














Below: One of the courtyards in the school














Below: One of the cool things is that there are display cases throughout the school with both artifacts and projects that students have been working on.




That's it for now! We hope all of you are doing well. We are really enjoying all your emails--it makes us feel a lot closer to home!