We hit -25 on Sunday. The cold is biting. When you open the door to the outside, you get lots of steam where the warm and cold air hit. My lunch froze when I put it down for a second on the way to the bus. Icicles formed on the inside of the windows.
Strangely with the wood stove and furnace, our main problem is being too warm. We wake up dehydrated and are constantly drinking cups of water.
It is also beautiful. There is no wind. In the early morning, the snow twinkles on the ground like little diamonds and as stated before: every sunrise and sunset is gorgeous. We are only getting about 6 hours of sunlight. By 9am, its starting to sunrise and 3pm, its sunset. This means as the students are getting ready to go home, it is gorgeous.
You do start to get cabin fever though. We had a birthday party for James this week and Thanksgiving is next week. Good to have some variety to the routine. We will be happy to visit Washington for Christmas Break.
It really makes you wonder how the Alaska Natives survived this back in the day. Would be so interesting to examine the history and cultural artifacts that were used!
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