41 Below

Talk about extreme weather!!! You may have seen on the weather channel that it was 80degrees above zero today in Fairbanks. Well, this weather gives a whole new meaning to bipolar weather. That thermometer is for real and you can tell that it was too cold for Jamison to even look up. I took the kids and my niece (Kaiyuh) to a little place called Alaskaland. It is full of touristy things to do and we got hooked into the 40 below room. I wanted to give the kids a taste of my childhood when it would get butt-cold up here and we would still have to go to school. Who knew that I could recreate the whole scene in a freezer box and have fun in the cold for once. We went into the icebox (for about 5 minutes) and we were able to throw boiling water into the air and watched it disintegrate. Then we hammered a nail into a board with a frozen banana (you haven't lived until you've done that). The kids found a snowball and all the while I got to wear hot bunny boots and a parka that looked like the one my Mom made for me...and forced me to wear! What a kick!
This was real frost and her boogers were really frozen!!