Back in the Bush and Soggy Weather

Hello from Platinum again! The absence from blogging has been multi-fold. First, the business of wrapping up a semester of school consumed a bunch of time. Tack on some testing and that was quite the icing on the cake.

Once the semester finished I was dead set on making it home to Michigan. Remarkably, traveling went VERY smoothly. I got out of the village (first hurdle) on time. I allowed a day and a half to leave before my connecting flight to Anchorage from Bethel. I was able to fly out of Bethel early and booked a hotel in Anchorage for some relaxin'. Then it was a not so bright but very early flight from Anchorage to Minneapolis. I had a 1.5 hour layover and then flew into Grand Rapids around 5pm. It was so good to see family waiting for me at baggage claim.

My time in Michigan was just the right amount of down time with family and traveling around to visit friends all over. Here is a map of my travels:

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1. I went to a wedding at Camp Barakel (shout out to Mr. and Mrs. Pierpont, Doug Daveless, Keith "The Cook" Boeve and Randy Harris among many, many, many others)
2. I met up with some friends at Barakel again to do some shooting and broomball (Titus, Tyler and Eric)
3. I then shot up to the Yoop for a weekend. (Holla at my boys Dan, Ben, Steve, Aaron and Matt)
4. I then met up with some friends in the Lake Orion area. (Cletus and Kay-Kay, the Moosetons and Bam)
5. My sister and I spent my remaining days down in the Kalamazoo area. (Grandma, The Kents, Dave, Jenn, Justin and Skittles the cat)
6. I shot up to Grand Rapids on New Years day to meet up with some more peeps. (Dilly's!)
7. Lastly, was the the trip to the Grand Rapids airport (after hitting Cabela's for some fine hunting equipment) (None other than Teriyaki Trent)
A total of almost 1400 miles travelled just within Michigan!

The weather here right now is unbelievable. While the midwest is having a Snowpocalypse, it's currently raining outside. There is no longer any snow and most of the ice is now melting. Freezing temps seem to be on the horizon and are forecasted to drop quickly but it sure is odd weather around here.

Anyways, here's a video wrap up with a tour around the newly arranged classroom and some random talking. Oh, I'll also throw in the family holiday video we made in an attempt to win free stuff from Bubba Watson, the pro golfer. I guess our moves were just not good enough.

Christmas Video