War Eagle

Annette, Christopher and I went to the Auburn Homecoming game today. What a great time. Toomer's Corner after the game looked like Barrow, Alaska with all the TP. It was a lot of fun watching the end of the Alabama game at the hotel in the lobby with a bunch of Auburn fans. We had dinner at the Cock of the Walk (the best shrimp around) and now watching Arkansas beat South Carolina.

In the morning we hope to get breakfast at Taylor's Bakery (a friend of Christopher's uncle owns it) and then Mass at St. Michael's where Fr. Bill is the pastor. He is such a great guy. I wish we had him back at St. Dominic.

Barrow, Alaska

I left Mobile on Tuesday, November 2nd to go to Barrow, Alaska. It took about 30 hours to get there and it will take the same on the way home Friday. Barrow is a cool (maybe COLD) place. The folks are very nice but I don't think that I have met anyone "from" here. On our flight coming up, Ted Danson was with us. He is filming a story about whales in Anchorage and came up to meet with natives here that are in the story. Since there is only 3 restraunts (and we ate at 2 of them) we had lunch and dinner with him. He was very nice but was also private.

I decided not to join the Polar Bear Club, which requires you to go into the Artic Ocean, since is was about -20 or so with the wind chill.

The top is a reminder when getting there that this is an unforgiving area of the country. Will Rogers died here in a plane crash. The second is me standing by the Artic ocean. By the next moring, 50 yards of ocean was covered in ice. They said by December you can drive cars on the ice. The third is the Top of the World Hotel, which is basically a trailer on sticks.... not the best in town and for $170 per night you can expect a little more.

I am so glad to be home now!!!!!