I know. I know. I promised quite a few people that I would keep up on our blog once we moved to Alaska and here I am five months later just now updating ya'll on the craziness that is our life. But have no fear, I am here, and I will tell you all that we have been up to.
First up we are in our house. Yes, I said house! No more stairwell apartment, YAY. But it is a duplex so we share a wall with the neighbors. However, it's just one neighbor so not too bad. I'll share pictures of our new home in my next blog post. In the end we ended up spending 2 days in the hotel in Germany, 6 days in the hotel in Kansas, and 28 days in the hotel here in Alaska. That is a grand total of 36 days in which we had no home. It was interesting to say the least. We got lucky though. the hotel we stayed in here in Alaska was actually a suite. So we had a bigger fridge, a stove, couch, and there was a bedroom.
We moved into our house mid August but our stuff and our car wasn't delivered until September. We ended up buying a new car due to some severe paperwork issues with our Pontiac that I just don't want to get into right now. We fell in love with the rental we used while visiting our family so our new car is a 2015 Chrysler 200C. Everything made it here in one piece and nothing is missing. Well, except for one Christmas ornament that we bought in Germany. It was shattered into a million itty bitty pieces so there is no chance of gluing it back together. The movers were very nice and chatty. Asking us how we liked Alaska so far and where we came from. We provided drinks since it was warm out and we had a lot of stuff for them to carry in but they weren't there long. All our boxes were numbered so I marked off each number on the list as they walked in. They unwrapped our furniture and told us to call when we wanted the boxes picked up.
I am back in school after taking a break to move. It took just a little bit longer than I had planned to get started back up. A couple weeks into staying in the hotel here my laptop decided that it was time to move on which means I had to get a new one before I could start school and let me tell you, right after moving a new laptop was not in the budget! Also, it took two weeks to get the internet company to come out and hook up our internet. So I ended up missing the first part of the fall semester, but when October came around I was enrolled and ready to go so I was at least a half time student this semester. Right now I'm on winter break so I have just under a month to relax and get ready to be full time again.
The snow started showing up about mid October. It would snow and then melt some but by Thanksgiving it was here to stay! We were somewhat prepared for the snow though. Both cars were winterized, shovels were bought, and we were confident that this would be easy. What we weren't prepared for is the fact that when it first starts snowing the driveway has to be shoveled a couple times a day or else you end up driving over the snow and it packs. YIKES.
End of October beginning of November I saw my first moose. We were coming back from the store and a mama and her baby just darted across the road. Kind of like how deer do in Kansas! Then last month right around Thanksgiving we had our second sighting of moose. Ben was on his way home from the store, grabbing some last minute items for Thanksgiving when I called him to let him know there was a moose in our driveway. You see, we have a tree on each side of our driveway and they have berries on them. Apparently moose find them quite delicious. Every since then about once a week or so the moose has been back for more berries.
