At the end of my last post, I said that I would have a lot of updates. So consider yourselves warned. Here goes...
The Outhouse Races! This was actually February, so we'll call it Pre-March Madness.
The idea was to push/pull your makeshift outhouse on skis racing one other team at a time in elimination rounds. Our St. Elias group had a girls' team (The Skidmark Fairies) and a guys' team (The Skidmarks Unlimited). Classy, I know. They've participated 7 years in a row now, and this was the first year that they won any division let alone all 3 (Standard, Unlimited, and Women's)! I only ran once out of the 4 women races, but it was such a blast! Cory got to come too :)
The following weekend my dear friend Sara Scoville was here to continue the Fur Rondy celebration (the annual 2-week-long festival of Alaskan events)! She was most excited about seeing the Iditarod racers! Tourists came from all over the world to watch! The coolest part was seeing the dogs lined up waiting for their turns to race. Their excitement was contagious!
Man alive, March isn't even over yet and there's still fun waiting to be had including my Arizona Wildcats taking the NCAA basketball championship! WOOP WOOP!!!
The Outhouse Races! This was actually February, so we'll call it Pre-March Madness.
The idea was to push/pull your makeshift outhouse on skis racing one other team at a time in elimination rounds. Our St. Elias group had a girls' team (The Skidmark Fairies) and a guys' team (The Skidmarks Unlimited). Classy, I know. They've participated 7 years in a row now, and this was the first year that they won any division let alone all 3 (Standard, Unlimited, and Women's)! I only ran once out of the 4 women races, but it was such a blast! Cory got to come too :)
The following weekend my dear friend Sara Scoville was here to continue the Fur Rondy celebration (the annual 2-week-long festival of Alaskan events)! She was most excited about seeing the Iditarod racers! Tourists came from all over the world to watch! The coolest part was seeing the dogs lined up waiting for their turns to race. Their excitement was contagious!
That afternoon, Sara watched Cory and me and our friends Katie and Neil in the Running with the Reindeer race! We were in the largest group of runners, so you can barely see my arm as I'm running by waving at Sara lol.
Good thing he loves me so much :)
I could write an entire post just on the adventures that Sara and I had. We enjoyed everything from strolling through a park watching a man make giant bubbles to hiking the trail to see Byron Glacier. Sara is such an explorer at heart, so she was such a great companion. Not to mention how much I missed her!!
Thunderbird Falls was the hike that Cory and I took in June right after I moved here. This is the frozen version!
And of course, the highlight of March is always the 12th - my birthday! I had the day off and got a mani/pedi with Katie in the morning followed by ice cream, tried on and ordered my bridesmaid's dress for Julie's wedding, Facetimed with home and opened the gifts they sent me, and spend the evening with Cory (first time getting to spend my birthday with him :) ) having dinner and watching Modern Family reruns. This weekend we celebrated more with Katie and Neil with dinner and a movie. It was very low-key overall but I felt loved and celebrated :) I don't think I ever got used to being 25, but it's too late now! Hello 26!
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