Now we really haven't been updating.............

I am sitting now in one of the dining rooms at the Westmark hotel in Fairbanks at the driver's meeting - we have not had a chance to write since last time as I still don't have access at the musher's hall and we haven't been anywhere except Walmart in the last several days

before I forget to mention......we saw the most beautiful northern lites last week = I was in the trailer and letting out dogs and Randy said "come out here>......" and I, not knowing what he wanted to show me........."What????" and he wanted to show me the green and white beautiful lights!!!!

Over the last several days it has been only training at the track and shopping at Walmart once and visiting with all of the mushers that were coming to the track to train before the race - we spent time with Mark Hartum and his family, Luke Sampson, Marvin Cokrine, the Sterlings, the Ellis', the Erharts, and many more I have forgotten.......a veritable "who's who" of the mushing world - we went to the DMV today and spent about 2 hours getting Randy his Iditarod license plate and then checked in to the hotel at 3p - the parking lot was full so we had to park a block away at the Masonic Lodge to feed and drop before the meeting - nice room but not enough time to hardly spend catching up on current events......

we have a musher's meeting tomorrow morning at 9am so not much time to spend tonite either - probably up at 7 or so to be able to be back at our "home base" the musher's hall, by 9am

sorry not too much good information - will try to do better being downtown the next several days - oh by the way, Randy drew #14 out of 16 entrants - the only people behind him are a rookie with some of Erhart's dogs and Greg Sellentin, the publisher of Mushing Magazine

talk to you tomorrow hopefully!!