Chocolate Extravaganza

Now that's a hot Friday night activity! The title says it all. It was pretty much the highlight of the week around these parts.

Museum of the Aleutians presents the Chocolate Extravaganza, a chocolate filled delight! Join us to celebrate the New Year and enjoy delectable chocolate truffles, cake, cappuccino, and much more! Tickets available at the Museum's front desk or from Museum staff and board members.

The Chocolate theme didn't have much in common with the actual Museum of the Aleutians collection, but we aren't complaining. What's more exciting than chocolate? I can't think of many things. The celebration was actually in conjunction with the final day of the Camp Q exhibit. Camp Qungaayux is a cool thing the community puts on every summer, where they host a camp and teach all the rugrats in town about traditional Unangan subsistence living and culture. If Pax Rev is still around these parts in a few years, he'll love it.

What does the following image look like to you?


If you guessed train, you are our new best friend! I'd like to say it looks more like a train from a different angle, but unfortunately that's not true.

As for reading, we've been hitting the Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever pretty hard. I think we've both reached double digits on that one. Snowboard Twist and Snow are also frequent reads, and no it's not Orhan Pamuk. Yep, Pax Rev is finally getting pumped about books, and he brings them to us almost as often as he brings us his shoes and coat. The picture to the right is a selection from his favorite page.

Along those lines, we've been busy building a human size train. We're handling the Saturday Story Time duties at the library tomorrow. Every Saturday, somebody comes in and tells a story to the rugrats in town. We finally signed up. We chose to read The Little Engine That Could. It's a fitting theme to start the New Year off with. "I think I can I think I can I think I can..." Genevieve is doing the reading, and Dawson is playing the role of each of the trains in the book. Our trains kind of require a certain amount of imagination to actually see that they are trains and not a series of cardboard boxes duct-taped to Dawson's body. But fortunately for us, kids have great imaginations. And the kids here have never seen a train anyway. Thank goodness we live on an island!

Other than that, just snow-filled adventures await us. The rain is gone and in its place are two inches of nice new snow, so we aren't complaining. And neither is Paxson Revel Shackleton. And we've got our very own snowshoes arriving on Monday, so the sky is the limit.