Long time no hear from!

Yeah yeah yeah! I am sorry it's been so long. I have just been neglectful. But thanks to a couple of reminders from my readers I am finally updating.

Christmas was a good time. Mattea (a friend from over the summer) came over and enjoyed the holiday with us. We had presents from our families to open and even a little something from each other. I unfortunately had a bit of a cold the week of Christmas so it was a very lazy time. We had good food and good movies and good company. We missed our family very much and we look forward to seeing the family next Christmas.

We celebrated the New Year downtown at the Fire and Ice Festival. The "square" downtown was turned into an ice skating rink and they had a stage set up with a live band and Hawaiian dancers. They even had a volcano that erupted every hour. They had section set up with fire dancers as well. It was really cool. It ended with a fireworks display at 8PM (midnight EST). We headed home after that and watched the re-run of Dick Clark's New Years Eve and celebrated again at mid-night our time.

The month of January has been fun, we have spent a day at Alyeska Ski Resort with our friends Bill and Kelly. Bill and Kevin skied while Kelly and I had massages. It was a fun day. We spent a couple of days sleigh riding too. Kevin had his first week of "on-call" at work. He will have to do this about every 12 weeks, where he spends Friday at 6PM until the next Friday at 8AM on call. If anyone at the base has an emergency during the weekend or overnight he has to go out and fix the problem. It went fairly well, he spent all day on Sat and Sun working and every evening had to go do a few calls but for the most part he was able to sleep thru the night with out any disruptions. We ended the month of January by buying a car for me.  I am the proud owner of a 1998 Dodge Durango!

February started well. The greatest part is that Kevin reached his 90 days at his job and with that came the Health, Dental and Vision Insurance! We have been carrying a temporary health insurance plan that was basically just enough to keep us out of major debt if a severe accident happened. So it is a good felling to have good coverage again. I had an interview for a job with Holland America yesterday. It was for the position of Tour Sales working on the passenger train that travels from Anchorage to Fairbanks and back everyday during the summer/tourist season. The interview went well. There are a lot of perks and good things about the job but the biggest drawback is that I would have to work every weekend which is when Kevin is off work. We have plans for things we want to do this summer and places we want to go visit so I don't think the job with Holland would rally work out for me. I will keep looking for something and hope that it will be schedule that will work for us. I do have the unemployment coverage til mid March so that gives me about 5 to 6 more weeks to find something.

I guess that gets everything caught up to the present. Hopefully I won't wait so long to post the next update. I am on facebook and usually keep good updates on there about everyday. Hope you are all having a good new year so far!