Timber Tales     Week 08

We finally went flying! Twice! I gather that was not the plan but its always a good idea to do things more than once. That's how you get good at them. Good Thunder sure gets nervous when that plane takes off - I told him to listen carefully and he would hear Paul behind us. Obviously Paul was not in a box like us, he had to sit on a seat. I think a box is a better place to be. Paul has to wear a thing across his lap to make sure he doesn't flip flop around I guess. We can just lay there in our box and enjoy the ride!

Mille was not flying with us. She had just flown to meet us, so I am thinking maybe she wanted an extra day on the ground and Tucker told me she had to wait and fly with all that technology we are pulling around on the sled. That's how we can send you stuff to see online every week no matter where we are at. Tucker just has that technology down - I guess that's why his nick name is Techie Tucker. I thought maybe Tucker should fly with Mille just to help her out since she will be all alone, but Beacon told me we Polar Huskies all have to stay together because we are going to a whole new continent. I knew that - we went to Asia! And then came right back to North America to Alaska!

Mille came to Alaska a couple of sunrises after I talked to you last. Have I told you about how much the sun shines here!? Well, actually it has been kind of grey, snowy, even raining (!) for some days now, but it is light most of the time. I heard Paul and Mille talk about that there are now 16 hours of daylight and in two full moons it is going to be daylight all day and night too! Makes it really easy to look for polar bears. I like that. Mille loves when it is light all the time too. And we sure all loved that she showed up. Tails were swoosh-swoosh-swooshing through the air. We howled and gave her lots of licks and she howled back and gave everyone of us lots of loving. I was so excited cause digging around I had just found this great bone that I could share. It is about four times as long as my head and thicker than one of my own legs! It just came out of the snow when I was digging around. I heard there were once these huge hairy elephants here. Maybe it was like the ear bone from one of them. Probably not, Paul thinks its from a moose. I am a really good digger if I can say so myself. I think only Lipton, Freja and Nazca are better than me. Well, they are all siblings. Guess it runs in the family. I just think they are a little antsy. Like Sable, she is really calm, she never digs. Her sister Ginger doesn't dig either, but I think she doesn't like to get her paws dirty.

Its good to be a digger around here - there are lots of people digging, with shovels and big machines and all. Heard they are digging for gold! Paul and Mille talked about how there is suppose to be a lot of gold down on the beach just below where we are staying. Maybe if we all go down there and dig we could find a lot of gold! Not sure we can use it for a whole lot, but Beacon said he thinks we could get a lot of dog food for gold. Sure the guys could come up with a way to use it too.

Maybe if we had had a lot of gold with us when we landed in Chukotka, they would have let us stay. I heard Paul say to this guy who spoke the most amazing language, which I guess was Russian, that our dog food is almost worth its weight in gold. I know it is. It is worth anything in its weight. That's why we haul it around on the sled everywhere we go!

So, I am not really sure why we are all back in Alaska. We landed in Chukotka, everything was loaded off the airplane and I was looking around at some of all these nice border people. Just like the Canadian border people they were putting their faces into our boxes, talking to us in this great language and taking lots of pictures of us. It was really fun! There was also a guy who was checking out our ears - well, some of us at least. Not mine, so I asked Domino how it felt and we both agreed it might have been more important to check Paul's ears. They were really bothering him on the flight it seemed. Anyway, after sitting there for a long while where there was lots of talking and walking in and out of this building that looked like a big rock, all of a sudden Paul came back and he and the nice pilots started loading us back into the plane. Rubi was the one closest to all the action but all she could gather was that they wanted Paul to pay for our dog food!? Not sure why. We aren't sharing it. We are going to eat it everyday along the trip!

Next thing we were taking off again. That's my favorite part - take off and landing. Makes me want to howl. I was also so excited because I figured we had landed in the wrong place and needed to go to another location. When we landed we all started getting off the plane together along with all our dog food and everything else. It looked really familiar and then I saw Mille! WHAT?!!?

After another fun ride in the back of this truck hanging our heads over the side, we were back where we started that very same morning. Two continents in a day! How exciting is that...