It's almost September already????

I can't believe this summer is already over. The wierd thing is that even though it went by so fast, I also feel like it has lasted forever. Of course, my summer was not as "summery" as most, seeing as I spent the entire summer in a sweatshirt. brrrr.

I have 4 more days of work here in Copper Center. Then my roommate, Christy, and I are going to check out the other Princess lodges for a few days and head to Denali to help close them down for the end of season. Then, on September 17, I'm off to Gram's to recoup. Not sure where the next adventure will be.

Since I last posted here, the only thing I've really been doing is knitting...I know right? One of the girls here wore a hat on the bus out here that I absolutely adored. When I found out she knitted it herself, I freaked. When she suggested that I could possibly knit one, I thought she was crazy. Then I attended knitting night at Sarah's house a few months ago, and I pretty much haven't stopped. It's been a wonderful skill to keep me busy during my downtime. Of course, as with anything in my life, there's a story.

Unlike most people who start a new craft, I decided to make my first project a little difficult. I didn't want to start with a scarf...no, that's boring. I wanted to start with a hat (not the hat that inspired all this, that was TOO difficult). So I got some free yarn from the common area here, had a few people show me some basics and off I went. I was so excited that I had picked it up so well, that I started two at the same time. I was making such progress so early on. I ran over to Sarah's for her to write down how to finish these two caps, and ran back home to finish my first knitting projects ever. Instead of describing the outcome, I will show you a picture of Samantha holding them for you.

Samantha modeling my ITTY BITTY winter caps

As you can see, they finished a little small...

Just to reiterate the size

This has become an ongoing joke here. Everything is compared to my itty bitty baby caps. They became decorations in my room.

I tried again and made (what I like to refer to as) the adolescent size hat. Noooot quite big enough. Finally, after 3 or 4 tries, I made an aaaalmost perfect adult size cap (except I ran out of yarn and couldn't make it quite long enough). Here's a pic of Kendra modeling a few of them at once.

Kendra, you look like an icecream cone

After finally accomplishing the hat...I moved onto fingerless gloves, wrist bands and finally the hat that inspired this new obsession. I don't have a full pictures of them, but here are some examples

My sarcasm and dirty look deflecters

Kendra sporting my matching set

Megan wearing my fingerless gloves and me in my favorite hat

Needless to say, i still have not made a scarf.

So, other than that, I've been working and going on a few short trips. I went to Fairbanks for the day with some other employees the other day. (Which by the way, Fairbanks should never be a day trip). But we had a really great time and got to see 6 moose along the way.

I'm going to be sad to leave Alaska. I made some great friends here and had such an adventure. The only thing that I didn't really like was the amount of absolutely unhealthy food for the employees at the lodge and the fact that I've got about 15 extra pounds to try and lose when I leave here. But it was worth it.

I hope the summer has treated everyone well, and I will be back in EST shortly.

Love-Reebs