Fairbanks Trip

Kimberly and I just got home today. The trip was amazing, filled with its ups and downs... the second we climbed into Dales vehicle in fairbanks he asked if we were able to put some money in the ATM machine (cynthia, bless her heart, couldnt find the power switch on a computer, let alone get into and load an ATM, haha). Well it hit me right then that i had forgotten, not only that but i had left a stack of 1260.00 dollars worth of 20's out in the computer room (whats worse is we even had a bed and breakfast guy here at the time so i left 1.25k out in the computer room with a random guy here.... BOY was i excited to call her and get a lecture on handling their money... FORTUNATLY it clicked with me right when i called her that it wasnt just sitting out in the open, i did put it in a drawer... then the next day she was trying to put money in the machine and she couldnt find the key, it ended up being on the floor below the key rack (must have fallen off) which made me feel good because i said it should have been haning up.

Basically god was looking out for us, everytime something came up that could have hurt our time in the city, a problem i though was a mountian ended up being a mole hill.

We were able to make it to the Native Bible Church that Dave and Marcy Joseph run (the missionarys that picked us up the night we got to alaska in october). It was great and it was nice to be in a more modern church with modern songs!

We spent about 1400.00 dollars on the 3.5 days we were in town... there were big ticket items like 350 dollars for the hotel, and 290 bucks for grocerys to bring back to tanana (from sams club (like costco)). We both needed clothing, socks, shirts, kimberly needed jeans... so the money was well spent it wasnt just sticking it in the toilet and flushing. By the way, we were semi celebrating our 6month aniversary.

The weather was about -25 today... its funny because it was actually more comefortable at -25 with no wind than -6 with a slight breeze... the only difference is when there is no breeze and its really cold, only your exposed skin gets cold, to the point of burning, but when its 20 degrees warmer with a slight breeze your whole body is cold. we have had a slight dusting of snow but nothing significant.

Dale has basically garanteed A job this summer... if its removing asbestos from the hospital or working in the store, we have a job.. SO, its looking like kimberly and i will be sticking around till the end of summer then comming home... ultimately we have decided that if we come back in july with 16k in our savings it will be barely be enough for a house downpayment in portland, and we dont really want to spend the time and money comming home for 3 months during the summer just to come back up next year... So, we just want to work, get it over with, then come home and stay home. Especially because we would like to see what kind of options we have getting into realestate when we come home, 16k is just not enough to get us in the door... if we can double or tripple that this summer we will be good, and we would like to give that a shot.

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