I'll post a few photos today. Chena Hot Springs was all we hoped for. I loved Rock Lake - the springs actually and all the snow boulders around it. It was so quiet and peaceful and we felt like we had the place to ourselves.


Enjoyed especially talking to the Alaskan folks - they had such wild stories - who knows what to believe. The whole place was like a winter wonderland. The thermostat pictured is listing at -10 degrees. It was as low as -19 this morning on the way back into Fairbanks.



You can barely see Liz in the dog sled. She and Tom took a dog sled ride and said it was special - very quiet and very cold. The dogs were going nuts - all wanting to be tethered to the sled. Must have been a hundred of them all barking and wanting to go on the ride.

We are back in Anchorage now where they had 12 inches of snow yesterday and we are finishing up our shopping on snowy and icey roads in amongst all the Christmas shoppers. I just want to get back quiet little Chevak. We called Steve to check on Roxy and he told us that she had some apetite problems but after a couple of days she got hungry and started eating again. He has the Alaska Channel on for her during the day at our house and says she seems to like it. Tom and I both miss her so much - we've grown so attached to her this last year.

The statue of the dog is Balto - there's a book about him and this was a memorial. Wow, was it cold!