We spent a few saturdays ago downtown enjoying a few of the activities that were going on. It snowed all day that day which made for a great winter backdrop for all the activities and made for some fun pictures. However. it also made it very cold outside. We bundled up anyway and headed down town with our friends Kyle and Natalie and decided that snow was not going to stop us from enjoying Fur Rondy.
This year we decided to watch the annual outhouse races. There were over 20 teams racing. Each team builds their own "outhouse" and places it on skies so it is ready to either push or pull down the street. The whole race was way far more exciting then I had imagined. When you have 4 people pushing and one person riding in these "outhouses" it makes for some great entertainment. They push the "outhouse" down the road and try to turn them around and push then back the other way on the slippery snow and ice. There was lots of laughter a few toppled over outhouses and only one or two team members dragged or almost run over.
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Only in Alaska do you see stuff like this. It was fun but the cold finally got to us sooner then we had hoped and we called it an afternoon after only a few hours. We came home to warm up and then headed back out later that night to watch the fireworks.
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