Today, I slept in until 10:45, which I never do, except I am getting over a cold and I didn't get very good rest all last week, so I think I can be allowed one day of sleeping in. Then I went to two garage sales in the pouring, cold rain (that continued all day) with Grandma and Agnes. The first was at the Senior Center, where I found a cute little snowglobe (free), a true story about a horse-trader from Iowa born in 1882 ($1), and a small polar bear statue ($0.50). Then we went into the Arctic Trading Post to say hi to the owner because the second garage sale (right next door to the store) didn't start until noon. I found a small jar of fireweed syrup. Fireweed is purple and grows abundantly all along the road, in fields, on the mountains (we saw some at the peak of Sleepy Dog Mountain), and is apparently very sweet. So I'm interested in seeing how it tastes! After stopping by there for a few minutes, we went right next door to the garage sale...where I found loads of treasure in the boxes labelled "Free". I bought an originally-priced $50 book for $1 (crazy!)...and that was all the money I spent. In the free boxes, I found a box of Alaskan Christmas cards, a stretch band, an Iditarod 2011 mouse pad, and a 1962 Seattle World's Fair collectible plate. All the things are small and easily packed into a suitcase...and besides, when can you pass up totally free and useful items?
After our luxury shopping (I spent a total of about $5 between the books, syrup, and statue), we went back to the apartment to have a late lunch. Leftover potato soup from last night, a roll with butter, chocolate pudding, and milk satisfied my stomach for awhile. After lunch, I baked chocolate-chip cookies for fellowship hour tomorrow. Then Matthew (who was in Teller & Brevig yesterday) came back into Nome because there were some errands that Brian, the pastor from Teller/Brevig, had to do. So he was with us for a few hours; we fed him and I enjoyed seeing my brother. Brian came to pick him up and we visited with him for awhile before they all headed out to go spend the night in Teller at 6:10. After they left, we headed to Airport Pizza, where I had the bacon cheeseburger with a side salad. It was delicious, filling, and tasty. We went to Hansen's to get juice and milk for this week at camp, came back to the apartment to play four games of Skip-Bo, and now I am going to shower, relax, and go to bed nice and early. I hope you're having a good weekend and good-bye for now! I will post Thursday night, after the FINAL week of camp is over...wow, where has all this time gone?! As always, thanks for your prayers, and please continue to pray for our safety and our opportunities to witness. Thanks, everyone!
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