Easter egg hunt-Alaska style

Many things in Alaska have certain unique aspects and obstacles to overcome that aren't an issue in much of the lower 48. Easter egg hunts are no exception.

Here, Colt and Justice are happily showing their loot. Behind them you can see the snow berm that measures anywhere from a few inches to more than two feet. It's great for hiding eggs if you can break through the upper crust.

I didn't realize it at the time, but this is an action shot. The young man in the right of the screen is cousin Dustin. You can see that the yard still has a bit of snow. So the hiders tend to hide the eggs where ever possible. That egg was somehow fastened to a hook, Justice managed to overlook that one, or maybe that was underlook. Some other places they were hidden: exhaust pipe, inside a bumper tube, on the snow machine track, in a hole in the snow berm, under chunks of frozen leaves...

Even the animals get in on the egg hiding. A moose tried to lay down some cover fire to confuse the kids. If you look close enough you can see a slight difference in the "moose eggs" and the slightly bluer Easter egg. On second glance it looks like someone dropped some chocolate Cadbury eggs. This might explain why they found more eggs than we hid.

"On the third day He will rise again." Luke 18:33

Happy Easter!

Roger's Mountain

Looks cold up there.

Justice and Meg started out riding together. Justice looks like a bobble head with the helmet on.

I can't explain Justice's expression here. Behind him you can see a car on Big Lake. There's a road on the lake that's a little wet in the summer, and deep. You can take the snow machine on the road and really open 'em up. Also in the background you can see Mt's Foraker, Eilson and McKinley (left to right). They're a little over a hundred miles away as the crow flies.
This is looking south east, the mountains run along the Glen Highway between Wasilla and Eagle River. Chase is driving the snow machine with Colt on back and Justice in tow.
Loxi was so tired. She had more exercise today than she's ever had. She needs a massage, I'm gonna see if I can get her an appointment at a spa.
Loxi wasn't the only one that was tired. Justice was out within minutes of leaving. Colt is awake and trying to read a phone book. Seriously. He's funny and doesn't even know it. He was asleep a few minutes later. Phone books work better than counting sheep.

Dog sled...well, sort of.

This is Loxi's last run. She had so much fun today and by the time I got the camera on her, she was exhausted. She went so fast the first she scared Colt, he bailed on his second run. Justice seems to be my dare devil. The look on his face was sheer terror, but he held on and went again. I have better video with her wide open on DVD but I have no way of posting it.

Snow Machine at Big Lake

We went back to Big Lake today and WOW, what a beautiful day! It was sunny and warm (35-40). We rode snow machines, ate hamburgers off the grill, had a snowball fight and had a dog sled pull compliments of Loxi. We're all exhausted. I have two videos and some pictures, so I'll do this in three different blogs enjoy!

This is the first video to share. Colton finally got up the nerve to ride the smaller snow machine by himself. And he wouldn't do that until after Justice got on and tried. It will only do about 12mph max, but I guess it feels like you're on a rocket if you're 5.

My view today

So the johns and I went after some ptarmigan today. We got some exercise. It was sunny for the most part. It started to cloud up about the time I took the video. The quality isn't as good as I would have liked. It doesn't do the view justice.