Snowcapped mountains in the background in Anchorage. We were there for medical apointments and a workshop last week. The weather was just beautiful the whole time.


Here's Tom in the post office. You can hardly see him at the desk shipping boxes of groceries back to Chevak. There was a long line waiting on him!


Looking down from the plane over the ice covered tundra - just miles and miles of flat ice covered lands. It is not completely frozen yet - you can still see some streams - but it will be soon - be all white.


This is a good shot from inside the plane. Tom is sitting directly in front of me and I am in the back seat. I believe this was a seven passenger plane. This was one of the most secure flights I have had - the pilot was still being trained or observed so he had to do everything correctly. Smoothest landing we have ever had.


At the airport - this is a typical scene - a truck from the school to pick up teachers, and the 4-wheeler with trailer to pick up packages for the mail and stores. There were other 4-wheelers picking up passengers - this will change to snow machines pretty soon.



The children are having a wonderful time on the lake - it is mainly ice right now - so great for skating. You can't tell from this photo - but there must have been 20 kids on the other side of the lake near the village skating.

We have had another tragedy this school year. A little 9 year old girl was killed in an awful accident. Her father was cleaning his gun and it accidentally went off. Everyone has been in a sad, dejected mood. This is the second student we have lost this year. These children become used to death around them at much too young of an age.