Tundra Topics: Esther went Manuqing!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Esther went Manuqing!

Now she's done things that her mom has never even done! For some reason, I have never gotten out ice fishing. I think it's just that this time of year is always so busy with the end of school that I just never get out there. But Tuluk took Esther out while I was in school and Iris was with a family friend -- and she caught over 20 smelt (which, those of you who smelt-fished on Lake Michigan when we were kids, those smelt have nothing on these! These smelt are nice-sized fish). And they taste so rich! Iris loved her first smelt, opening her mouth wide for more. :)

Here are some pictures of my lil' Yup'ik girl on the ice:

1 comment:

Jen said...: Wow, what wonderful culture your children are experiencing, in real time. It saddens me to see how we "Americans" have lost so much of our "national identity" if you will with the melting pot theory... It's nice to see that there's still a cultural influence somewhere in the US. Ok, so I have to ask, are you just a little nervous that she'll fall into that hole? And, pardon my ignorance, do you cook the smelt first?; May 13, 2009 at 6:02 PM

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Esther with Auntie Erin at the big spitting fountains at Millenium Park, Downtown Chicago

Pictures of Summer & Fall 2006 Travels

We had a great summer of travel -- which extended into a great fall of travel after the tragic burning of Hooper Bay school gave us a few more months of vacation. Esther was 1 and a half this summer, turning 2 just a few days after we returned to Hooper Bay in November of 2006. Below are pictures going backwards from our last trip of the fall (to visit Sunny in California), our road trip to homecoming at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC, our train trip through Pennsylvania, New York, and Toronto, to our visit with Ya-Ya in Indiana, and our first campout ever in California!

Warren Wilson College Homecoming Celebration, October 2006

Esther and I took a ride on the draft horse wagon, around the farm valley. It was so great to take this road trip down to North Carolina and visit old friends (some of whom had never met Esther!) and show Esther all these places special to my heart. It was kind of wild to me that it was all new for her, that since she is so familiar to me and so are these places, that it was strange that she wouldn't know these places already. It was kind of wild to think of myself, without her, in college years earlier. It's really hard to imagine my life or myself without her, now. :)