We went to an Eskimo olympics friday and saturday.  This is called the Two Foot Kick.  You have to jump using both feet to kick the ball and land on both feet and maintain ballance your ballance.  One of the young man kicked the ball at seven feet eight inches.  The One Foot Kick is just one foot and you have to land on the foot you used to kick the ball and maintain balance on the one foot.  The record for the game was ten feet.   It was really neat they did a lot of interesting games.  One is called the ear pull.  The take a string made out of a sinew from an animal and tie the ends together.  They then put it around their ears opposite and pull.  One man had to have twelve stitches to put his ear back on.  They had stick pulling contest and a lot other games. 

This is the blanket toss.  They get up to forty feet. 

They choose a Queen Friday night but they also had Princess too.  This picture is for Savanna,

Ande and Afton.  Their Mothers or Grandmothers helped to make their dresses. 

This is for the boy's all those who love trains.  Lincoln, Eli, Ethan and Jack.  Dad's too.  This is the little engine that could, and did.  He pulled ore out of the mines,  he pulled lumber around the sawmills.  His was a tough job because he was so small and strong he could go places the bigger engines couldn't go.  Now he's retired and takes kids for rides around the park. 

We have seen Totem poles but this one had a cabbage in front of it.  Cabbages up here grow to a hundred and fifty one pounds.  Around Fairbanks they grow all kinds of vegetables including tomatoes.  It's because of the longer days they mature faster, and usually bigger.