It sure was a long plane ride..... PART 2!!!!

So, yes we did make it back to Alaska finally on Friday, January 9th. There was like 6 feet of snow on the ground and icicles hanging from the roof to the ground. I would have taken pictures, but I was so frickin mad at the weather that I just holed up in my room for the weekend with nothing but a bunch of movies and blankets. Since I have been back, things have been crazy busy. We had a huge event for Martin Luther King Junior Day. We had a "community needs drive" in which we were able to obtain over 80 boxes of donations for needy people around the community, including clothes, food, blankets, baby stuff, and kitchenware. It was quite successful. I had to organize a celebration over at the University and the speaker I got to come was actually a pallbearer at Martin Luther King's funeral. He was so interesting. So, that took a lot of time (especially since I was gone for an extra week), but it ended up being pretty successful. I also organized an All Corps Day with Perseverence Theatre in which we shoveled their snow in exchange for theatre tickets. So, we got to go see the play "Wittenberg," which was pretty cool. However, the smoke in the special effects kind of got into my contacts, so I couldn't see for the last half hour. Last weekend Daniel and I went to this "beer tastint" at the Alaskan Brewery, which was pretty cool. I mean, it was free beer. Also, AnnMarie's last day was on Friday, so we had a SAGA celebration for that out at the lodge as well as a huge beerfest at our house, so this past weekend was one of many parties. I just switched offices yesterday and spent the whole day reorganizing everything, so now I am finally back into the swing of things. I organized an ice-skating outing for our AmeriCorps members tomorrow, so that should be fun. it has started snowing again though, so that makes me nervous. It isn't all that fun walking home in 4 feet of snow. I love and miss you all and thanks again for your help during my troubled travels.