
Daybreak
We could see the sun just coming up. This is about the most sun we would see all day.
It was so cool! They let us have our own sled and Bill was the driver! The dogs were pumped! When we took off the girl behind us was thrown off of her sled. Her dogs ran right by us. We gave her a ride until we caught up to her dogs. We crashed once. I got a great video of it HERE.
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Two hats, a scarf, three shirts, three pairs of pants, three pairs of socks and the outer winter wear on top of all of it. It was exhausting to put it all on.
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Our guide, Johnny, made a great fire, as you can see, and he heated up this GREAT juice that we LOVED and gave us everywhere we went over the fire. We also had some really good ginger snap cookies.
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Waving bye as he drives our team to their houses. Then we get to interact with them and they get fed. That little boy next to the tree was the son of the caretakers. He was a little scamp. The only English word he seemed to know was "Hello." He was walking around with a stick from a tree saying, "Helloooo!" and poking the dogs and people with the stick. The dogs were annoyed but seemed used to it like, "This kid! What are you gonna do?"
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After this we went to get our cold weather gear that we wore on top of our many, many layers of clothes.
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