Wow! It has been a while since my last post. Life has been extremely busy, as usual.

Jim and I came up to Alaska for Christmas and have pretty much been in a vegetative state since our arrival. My first week wasn’t very fun because I came down with the flu almost immediately after getting here and it was a doozy! I can’t remember the last time that I have been so sick that I had to sleep on the floor of the bathroom for three days.

This last week has been a lot of laziness. The lack of sunlight is really throwing us off. I was shopping with Matt today and he said that we are up to 4 hours and 45 minutes of sunlight a day. Not a lot!

Christmas, at least, was a lot of fun. My brother, Dean, came out from Anchorage and we spent a lot of time playing games as a family. Dean got my parents a Wii for Christmas and we have been enjoying learning the new games. The whole point of having a Wii is to have a game that makes you get up and move, but the guys have pretty much figured out how to play all the games from the couch, so it’s not as effective.

Jim and I are driving down to Homer tomorrow for a couple days to see our friends. I am hoping that it is a lot sunnier down there than it is up here. The last couple of weeks have been so overcast that it is still dark even during the daylight hours.