Sommermans in Town

0Josh • 18th Mar 2005 • blog entries, Iditarod, nome.

I took a blogging day off yesterday after going for so long with a new post each day. But I’m back for a while, and I’ll continue to tell you about what its like to live in a crazy place like Nome.

Lydia’s parents are in town, they arrived yesterday morning, and her sister comes tomorrow (Saturday). Its been fun showing them around town again, they were here in October but we had a huge storm so they didn’t get to see to much. Last night we went to a reindeer stew fundraiser for the Christian pilots association here in town, then we went to a Eskimo dance “concert”. It was pretty cool to see these people do dances that have been passed down for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. It really shows the deep routed culture and history these people have. Kids 10 and 12 were doing their dances, and older people were doing the “grandpa dance”.

Today Jerry & I followed the Iditarod trail up for a few miles and got to see some more mushers come into town. It was really cool to see them in their element, not on a city street. It was also really fun to go snow machining when it wasn’t so cold or windy. We went and watched Lydia play basketball, and tonight we are going to a halibut fry.

Tomorrow Jerry, & I, along with Lon and Irene (from KICY) are competing in the Nome Kennel Club’s businessman’s race. It should be fun, after spending my early childhood in Alaska its been a dream of mine for quite a while to get behind some sled dogs, and I’m excited to do it tomorrow.

– I’ve posted some pictures I took of the Iditarod Finish (click here)

– Audio Report of Robert Sorlie winning the Iditarod (click here)