A quick email from Russia

here is a quick post from the field:i I am in Lauvrentia for the last 2 days after flying to Providenyia last week, taking a 6 hour ride in a small boat across to Lorino. Two whales later-- one of which was far from the town and the second which we were able to make collections from--- there has been a break in whaling. There is a regatta festival which has been postponed twice because of bad weather. Now it happens and the whalers have taken 4 days off and we are in standby mode. Anyhow, we attended the festival and ate good local food (gray whale, walrus, fish-- all very good). Tonight we head back to Lorino with a stop at thу hot springs on the way. More soon- hopefully! Wish us luck for a 6 hour + boat ride on the 29th!

mmmm...cashews

ok, for some stupid reason, i can't post any photos to this...so...
in case anyone is interested in just reading. lar and mar are here. they arrived last sunday at about 11:00...the plane was about an hour late which gave me a chance to deal with a gage that i had just found should not eat cashews. he ate one half of one cashew and then before he could eat another half, he started crying and rubbing his eyes..and pretty much instantly got welts on his chin as well as swelling around his right eye. after he puked twice and his breathing got raspy we went to the hospital instead of the airport to pick up grandma and grandpa.

eventually lar and mar did track us down..not quite so easy to reach them since their cell phone will not work here. they got a cab to the hospital where gage had officially been admitted. we spent 24 hours at the samual simmonds memorial hospital...not terribly fun, but gage took it pretty well, even with an iv in his wrist for about 13 hours.

he is now fine and there is no evidence of anything being wrong except that we no longer have cashews in the house....

Fourth of July Games

Here are some pictures from the 4th of July games in Barrow. Gage came in second in the 1 year old running race :) It was hilarious- kids were running in all directions, some were stopping and sitting down. Gage started off by falling on his face! So nice to be together (I got home from Pt. Lay about 4 days early :) A good time was had by all (and he got ten bucks for his win! We may start entering him in all sorts of things...he can earn his keep! These diapers aren't cheap!