May Update

Well, it's all turned from white to brown to super-green in May. The leaves took about 2 days to go from buds to being fully leafed out. What have we been up to now that there's no skiing and trips outside with the sole purpose of reporting terribly cold temperatures?
Highlights have included:

• Lisa finshing 1st semester classes and starting education classes proper, and
  
• getting a great hair cut from a crazy Colombian her told her she should grow it long at the front to cover her face when she's old (wtf?)
• attended the wedding of good friends Frank and Lalida (and witnessing just how bright it is at 3am when you're hammered and just want it to be dark so you can sleep..)
  
• making a day hike in Denali Park and seeing moose, ground squirrel, squirrels and Dall sheep
• Dan managing to go climbing a couple of times (closely followed by ice and ibuprofen)
  
• doing the 'two-way torture test', a two person race where we each ran a 1/2 marathon in a different direction of an up and down loop. Aptly named.
• getting involved in a big Cancer fundraiser - thanks a lot for all of you who've contributed!
• hosting a BBQ up at our place.
• two young grizzly bears rolling into town and hanging out at the golf course (!) one has been shot for getting into someone's yard.
  

Lisa has been running a lot actually, and is really looking forward to the Equinox Marathon in September. Dan's looking forward to one last trip to Barrow to tie up this season's fieldwork. with such big changes between seasons squuzed into the same 12 months, everything seems to change and happen so quickly. Summer is now on us, and we hope to really enjoy it.