Iditarod 2008

John and I went to the Lodge for the Iditarod. We had a blast!!! John made a huge bonfire, it took him about two days of chopping and hauling wood to get it built and it went up in flames in about an hour.

The Lodge had about 70 guests. They had a catered dinner (appetizers, salad, main course, and dessert) and breakfast. The hot water wasn't working in the dining hall, so we had to carry the dishes to the main Lodge to wash them, then carry them back to the dining hall. It was quite the workout! After all those dishes, I never wanted to do dishes again.

I didn't get to see too many dog teams go by but I did see a few and tried to get pictures. It was night time and it was dark so I didn't get too many good pictures.

The weather was really great, it wasn't too cold and it only snowed a little. On the day we were supposed to come home, we couldn't make it out on a plane so we built a "bus". Four of us rode on lawn chairs strapped to trailers. It was pretty interesting!! It was a bumpy ride. Chad was driving the snow machine that was pulling us, he's really careful, and we had no incidents.

It is good to be home, but we miss our lodge "family", and John can't wait for summer to get here, so he can fish, fish, fish!!!