After watching them for a while, we decided to walk around in the crowds, and we went to go grab a free poster.
After our friends showed up downtown, we watched a few more teams take off. Then we went off to Willow to watch the Re-start of the race. We stayed in our pastors cabin. We got to Willow about 3-4pm on saturday. We were greeted alot of snow so much we waded through waist high snow to get to the door of the cabin. The cabin is in front of a lake which was covered with about 10 feet of snow. Here are some pictures of everyone trying the dig out paths in the snow with shovels and the snowmobiles.
Once we woke up on sunday, we hung out until the re-start at 2pm. More people came and joined us at the cabin. I drove a snow mobile around! It was very fun, unfortunately i dont have any pictures because I was driving it to the gas station and back. I did pretty well for my first time, I got stuck twice and fell off once. I was going up a hill and I was not straight and I pushed the nose into the snowbank. I just kinda gently rolled off onto the snow. A kind gentleman saw me in trouble and got me out. I got back to the cabin in one piece.
Then it was time to go out onto the lake, which was more wading in knee-waist high snow to get to the race track.
It was really cool to sit on a frozen lake and watch the racers go by. Here are some pictures of the re-start.
We stayed out there until about 4ish or so. We came back into the cabin and ate some food and packed up to head back here to Anchorage. We got back around 8ish or so. I washed up and went to bed since I had work on monday.
On tuesday march 13 about 7:30pm the first person crossed the finished line in the city of Nome. about 945mile race. The guy was the youngest person ever to win, at 25 years old.
He finished in 10days, but the record is 8days.
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