Fairbanks, North Pole to Matanuska

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We stayed in very sweet cabins in North Pole / Fairbanks area, we were surrounded by Birch and Spruce trees and had a river infront of our cabins. The weird thing was waiting for the sun to go down and for it to get dark. It only got darkish at about 11:30 but I think proper dark as we know it only came around at about 12:30am and then it started getting light again at about 4am! We didn't have a problem with that though as it gave us more play time for our day😊



We went for a drive to North Pole, we attended the Sunday meeting in the North Pole congregation, It was so encouraging to meet new friends and to hear their experiences. They live in a territory of about 6000 people, have about 90 publishers in their congregation with 10 pioneers and no walking territory - you have to drive house to house because of the vast distances between homes!

As we drove through North Pole it became very clear that everything is very Xmass themed and they even have a "Santa house", where he supposedly lives and makes gifts 24/7, the street lights are made to look like candy sticks and most of the roads are named after xmassy things and they had live reindeer in an encampment.

We also went to the natural hot springs where there were loads of flower arrangements (and old people in the springs)!



It is really beautiful in Alaska and as usual it's the things in nature that draw us closer to our creator and gives evidence of His personality- from the smallest little flower to the biggest majestic mountains, we have so much to be thankful for and to look forward to!

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