ICE ALASKA

One of the really cool thing that happens in Fairbanks is the Ice carving competition , that started this week.
We at my work have sponsored a web cam, so you can see these hard working people doing their thing with ice. it s really cool to look at. so follow the link and then go look a tthe other ones as well.  this here is a phto i had float ing arround from 2007 with my old camera,  

I will get some cool photos for you to look at another day when it is not snowing.
in the mean time here is the web link


http://www.icealaska.com/videocam/09Cam/sb9/CAM901sb01.html

Sunny Fairbanks

Winter is thinking about being over , ...  

 it  was a wonderful sunny day today, there is still sun in the sky when i go home from work and it' s 20 ( -7, -8 )  there is light in the sky when i get up.

 the lead dogs from the Yukon quest are due in tomorrow looking to break records.

 if this weather continues I will get the camera out and show people what a real sunset looks  like. Pink rather than Orange, that hangs around for a while. we gain 7 minutes of daylight a day

( we loose this amount in the Fall)

 daylight comes.

Xtra photos

Ok so now that i am home and runing on my own computer again , you can get to see more stuff.

i was on the way home from work today and we had a cool sunset, it was pink not orange , i thought i would show you a little more.
 this sequence of photos took 10 minutes. over and done with by 5 30. and it was all dark by 6pm

the Return Home.

Well i could have told you what i did on the 10 but i just thought i would cruise around London well Oxford street. and see if i could  spend some more money. well of course i can.  ended up buying 2 tops i think and headed back to the hostel  to pack .

 the hostel I was staying at was OK , rather large with 800  beds  so somewhat impersonal.  after the wonderful small one in Nottingham  it was a change. Hostels are definitely meant for people younger than me.  But I get lonely sometimes staying in hotels and even  B& B's  and they are way more pricey.

 Flight left at 11 am on the 11th it was an empty plane . their were 45 of us on a 200 seat plane. I had  3 seats to my self.  took a small nap.  pulled into Cincinnati and cleared customs in 15 minutes flat . ( its a small airport) through to Seattle and had 3 hours to fill in  and jet lag set in.  but the exciting thing was that form Seattle to Fairbanks i again had 3 seats to myself. i slept almost all the way to Fairbanks getting in a 12 30 am. yes that's 22 1/2 hours of travel from departure to landing..

 but i was awake at 5 30 on Thursday so went to work. (But i left early )

 here ends my vacation/ holiday. not sure what will happen next. there is lots of stuff happening in town coming up.  so back to the boring stuff of Fairbanks.  the sun is shining and its almost warm the last couple of days.

 i hope to get some more photos around for the last few entries.

Phantom of the Opera

you know, the musical from London. don't know how many years it has been running.

The Musical is better than the movie.

Drama scenery costumes. and even some special effects tha impressed me anyway.it was 2 1/2 hours long. the costumes were amazing. we got to take photos at the start but after that they were really fussy about no photos and I was good.  the music has been runing through my head all day , i might have to go buy a CD .
Got to dig out the umbrella today for the first time , at least it's not snowing. but its been raining all day

The British Museum

back in London with 2 days, when i remember that at the Acropolis they said that if i wanted to see most of the friezes form the Pantheon they were at the British museum, that's a 10 minute walk from the hostel that i am at. It s large museum and also free. So spent 4 hours looking around there. the friezes you can actually photograph and they're in reasonable condition. commonly called then Elgin marbles. for the Duke of Elgin rescued them in 1806


Their current new display is on Iran. there is also a wonderful display on just about any other era you care to name. No i didn't get to see it all, maybe a 1/3 if i was lucky. i just looked at a ll the roman/ Greek stuff and a small amount of the middle ages.
I didn't buy anything today OMG.

Wollerton Hall

a 10 minute bus ride will take you to wollerton hall. Built in 1580 to impress elizebeth 1 . this can be viewed formn 12 miles away. got to od a tour that was of all teh back stairs and servents hallways. the most intresting tour i have done. this kitchen is painted in authentic yellow. ( maximim for light relection. onion skins and pigs urine produces yellow.)

there were lotsof kids cruising around with thier sleds just having a good time

in walking arround in the past coule of days i have seen 2 woman dressed in full muslim clothes. with only the eyes showing. I only guess they are refugees form aftganistan or somewhere.I try not to look, but they are kinda interesting.

one of the other places i found today was a dance store , tey had shoes!!! what makes you think that i am not going to buy any. so now i have my 3 pair of shoes that i said i would get.