Allen's Week Off

Last week was Allen's week off. He had been gone a total of four weeks this last hitch cause of all the rigs getting shut down and  such. But, all that finally straightened out and he has a job for at least another three months. :)

Many of you know about all of the volcano trouble we have been having......or not having. Redoubt, a volcano about 100 miles south of Anchorage, has been acting up lately and threatening to blow her top. As luck would have it she threw her biggest tantrum on the day that Allen was suppose to fly into Anchorage. This was just what I needed. I was finally getting my husband back and just when you think that nothing else could go wrong......a volcano comes out of nowhere. Needless to say I was very nervous driving to Anchorage that day. My only prayer was that he could land so we would at least be together during the eruption. Well.......Allen's plane was suppose to land at 4:20 (I think) and about 10 minutes before that the volcano experts (volcanist...... the live long and prosper folks) said that they expected it to blow within the next 15 minutes and that everyone should remain indoors. So I waited, and waited, and waited. I couldn't read the book I had brought along cause I was right beside a cheerleading squad. I must say that when one is in a state of worry they are the last people you want for company. If they sang another chorus of "that's the way" I was seriously thinking of shoving their pom-poms down their throats. To make a long story short the plane landed fine and Allen and I were reunited once again. We drove home and the volcano decided to hold off on it's eruption. All that worry for nothing

While Allen was here we got out a lot. We went to a Mennonite church on Sunday, since there was some sickness in ours. It was my first time sitting on the "women only" side and I must say it wasn't that bad. It has been a while since I have had to play "the name game" and I am losing my touch. No one seemed to know of any Schlabachs from Montezuma, so I had to explain the Holmes county side, which people were more familiar with. I also learned that there is another Abe and Susie Schlabach that live in Trail, and they have a family full of girls, not boys. Go figure.

We also managed to stop by every snow machine dealer in Wasilla and I have this strange feeling that I am going for a ride when Allen gets back off this next hitch. We found a nice rental place that has weekend packages where you can rent a little cabin along with your machine. That way you can ride trails into some more remote locations and camp out over night. I am not sure where I am going to get my gear, but when Allen gets something like this in his head it will happen. I am actually really excited about it as he says that it is a lot of fun.

Well, it is late and I am going to head off to bed. I am going to try and post more later but I figured that this was enough to pacify all of you readers out there. I apologize if it is lacking in any way.