Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Things I've Learned, Week Two

a) Reindeer Sausage is a delicious treat that tastes exactly like Hickory Farms Meat Stick that you get at Christmas, only not as greasy.

b) The Alaska DMV is a beautiful and happy place filled with pleasant clerks who don't go on break in the middle of helping you. I went to get my new ID this morning and brought a sudoku puzzle, the latest issue of The Economist magazine, the newspaper and a novel. I was in and out, new ID in hand, in under 18 minutes, and that includes the time i spent after getting my ID walking around and telling everyone who helped me how much I loved them.

c) Daddy Moose are much bigger and scarier that Momma and Baby Moose. We were pulling out of our parking spot this morning when we realized that right next to us was the Momma Moose and the Baby eating from the fireweed trees. We pulled right up to them and rolled down the windows to take photos with our cell phones - we were as close to them as you are to a toll booth operator. Then we pulled out of the gate and, standing right at the top of the road was The Dad. We'd never seen him before. He was HUGE and had an enormous set of antlers. We rolled up the windows, locked the doors and got the heck out of there - scary!

d) It's possible to have snow in October. They say we got the equiv. of about 10 inches, but it's just on the brink of cold, so every afternoon it gets up to 38 or 40 degrees and it all melts.

e) It's possible to exist owning nothing more than two pairs of pants, three sweaters, three hoodies and a coat. The movers *still* haven't come!

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