2008 Alaska Samboree

For those who do not know what a Samboree is, it is a large rv campout that includes people from all over the good old USofA and Canada and it is part of the Good Sam Group. We belong to a chapter here in Alaska called the Northern Lights and I get to do the newsletter each month. It has been a way for me to meet people and to have fun. Each Month from about April through Sept we pick a camping spot all around Alaska to visit and then Oct through March we meet at different members houses and we have a pot luck for our meetings. Anyway back to the Samboree, we only had 65 rigs this year due to the cost of gas but we did get some rigs from Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Montanna, Colorado, Texas and California the rest of us all came from Fairbanks, Anchorage and out here in the Mat-Su Valley. We had games, bingo, crafts, Ice Cream Social, hot dog feed, pot luck night and a tea for the ladies,we had seminars on rv safety and almost anything you would want to know about rving, we had dog show oh my gosh we had so much going on, it was a blast. In the tea we had a quilter who wins first place almost all the time, she has over a 100 quilts and talk about beautiful, wow....wish I had the time and the desire to do quilting, she explained all about different ways to quilt. I made a beaded necklace so I can put my badge on it for the meetings, I also learned another dominoe game called spinner, that is about as much fun as the Mexican Train. Next week we head up to a place called Pinnacle Mountain, but this will be just for our chapter so there will only be about 10 rigs this time. The weather is finally getting beautiful and we are hitting the 70's yeahhhhhhhhhh,,,,I am adding a picture of our sunset and it is 12 am and that is as dark as it gets until about 3 am then it lightens up, but we are now on the downside of our summer and now we are losing about 1 to 3 min a day but we will still have our sunsets much later than you do down below, it really does not start getting dark until about 9 in August. We are going to have our first 4th of July in Alaska, it is a bit bittersweet because we always spend it with the family in Nevada and I am going to really miss that, but I also want to experience the 4th up here in Alaska. I am going to sign off for now I hope all the pictures come out ok and that you can enjoy them.