The Weekend in Pictures

This weekend, we drove around and took a look at some of the winter sights in Dillingham. First, we watched the ice flow in the bay.


Then we saw some ravens in front of somebody's house. These suckers are huge.

Then we drove out near the hospital. The land curves around as you head out the road to the hospital, and you can look back towards downtown Dillingham. Here are a few nice shots we took from that direction. (At night, you can really see the lights of the town.)

Our apartment is out near the end of the bluffs, to the far right in those photos. We also took a nice shot of the ice on the bay from this vantage.

On the way back, we pulled into the boat harbor. It's completely empty now, since it completely freezes over during the winter. Here are a few shots showing how much ice is in the harbor and the bay.

Samara took a picture of me testing the ice near the end of the boat ramp at the harbor.

It's pretty solid. There's also a big snow drift near the retaining wall. I slogged through it, but the edge was packed down enough to stand on.

There's also a playground at the harbor. Samara and I took pictures of each other on the playground equipment. It's too cold for anyone else to be playing on it this time of year--I bet your skin would stick to the metal in this weather.

Saturday evening, Samara was supposed to help out at the elementary school. They were having the "Kid's Carnival." The teen outreach person from SAFE was doing some of the activities. They had sumo suit wrestling, a bouncy castle, a dunking booth, and lots of little games for the kids. The funny thing is that some kids wore costumes, and this was clearly a Halloween event. So why was is called "Kid's Carnival?" Apparently, because Halloween is for devil-worshippers. Can't call it "Halloween" anything. How stupid is that?

Anyway, here's a few shots of kids doing the sumo suit wrestling.

Our friend Ricky, who teaches at the school, was waiting his turn in the dunk tank, and Samara snapped a photo.

We were going to take an after picture, once he got wet, but we decided to cut out early.

So that's our Saturday. This morning we had breakfast at the Muddy Rudder with Sarah May and her mom. It's nice that the Muddy Rudder is still open. I don't know how long they're going to stay open this year. They were supposed to be closed already, but we've heard that they're going to try to stay open as long as they've got customers. I guess they usually close pretty soon after the fishing crowd leaves. It's a good place for breakfast, so I'd rather they stay open, but I guess they can only really afford it when the business is good.

Hope you all enjoy the pictures.