Wednesday nite draw!!

Just stayed around the clubhouse in the morning and made our way to the Westmark Hotel for the driver's meeting - beautiful hotel - 8 stories - the tallest building in Fairbanks (I got the camera out to take a picture of the sunrise and found my camera battery dead!!!) - thought we would "clean up" for the meeting by getting a room and taking a shower!! The meeting was very nice and had food!!! Randy drew 5th place out which is good out of 15 drivers - then they had a "calcutta" which is someone (we don't know who) giving each of the drivers a "handicap" based on this year's results - and then they place bets/auction off the drivers with the handicap they have - if you bid on someone with a good handicap and they come in in "the front" you win a part of the "pot" - Randy bid a couple of times and he went for "$100" with a handicap of 23 minutes - it was lovely staying in the hotel with the hot shower; got up early and fed dogs and then went to a free breakfast for the mushers at the GCI store (a communications company in Alaska that sponsors alot of the dog races)- very nice breakfast with breakfast burritos - and then back to the clubhouse at the dog track for Randy to do more "rest and not get so sick time". At 10 am Randy had a dog drivers meeting and then had to go out on the trail on our sled behind a snowmobile for the whole course to see what the conditions were - dinner was chicken nuggets and fruit salad - more rest for tomorrow!!!