Thanksgiving weekend, eh?

0Josh • 28th Nov 2004 • blog entries, nome., travel

Here is what thanksgiving looked like. Wednesday night I ran the board while KICY was broadcasting the Community Thanksgiving Eve Service live from Old St. Joes, and later that evening Neil and I recorded the morning show so we could sleep in on thanksgiving. We had all been volunteered to cook a turkey for the community thanksgiving dinner, so that required waking up around 6:15am to stick the turkey in the oven. Lydia and I both enjoy sleeping, and didn’t wake up on time. It was around 7:30 when we got up and stuck the turkey in, but figured we would have enough baking time….and then we went back to sleep. We got up around 10:30, and found the house smelling wonderful, and our turkey cooked. We started cleaning up the house, because at noon our thanksgiving guests were coming over for an early dinner.

We had one of Lydia’s co-workers over, and her boyfriend. They moved up here about a year and a half ago, and are here to make and save as much money as possible. They were very fun to spend the meal with, and it was good to get to know them. Hopefully we will get more chances to spend time with them in the future. Lydia and I are so used to hanging out with ‘couple friends’, that its been weird to not have anyone like that up here.

The 6′ 9″ polish immigrant boyfriend had to work at 2:00pm, and our official thanksgiving was over, but we were stuffed. We hung out for the rest of the day, and went over to the station in the evening for “the edge”.

Friday Lydia was going out to Shishmaref for work, and I was hosting the morning show by myself for the first time. Neil and a friend who had come into town for the week were out camping on the beach. The show went pretty smoothly, although it was a bit awkward because I’m not yet used to filling time with only myself on the air. Lydia ended up not getting in on her 5:00 flight back to Nome, and called with an approximate 9:00 arrival. I went back to the radio station in the evening and recorded the edge, my second radio show of the day where I was by myself….not quite as awkward this time. Lydia ended up calling at 9:00, saying she was marooned there for the evening, and would try and make a flight in the morning. Saturday morning she got home and had plenty of stories to tell about village life.