North Pole, Alaska

Monday, June 28 -- We finally made our trip to see Santa, but unfortunately he was not scheduled to show up until 6:00 p.m.  Lots of kids write to Santa here.

They have a wonderful gift shop -- lots of things to spend your money on.  Joe found himself a polie bear, but it doesn't fit in the RV so we left it there.

Tiffany, you need this clock that is a countdown to Christmas.  You would love this shop.

I developed a relationship with a moose here, but Joe said it didn't fit in the RV either.

Since Santa was not in, Joe decided to fill in for him.

We went outside to check on the reindeer, but they had changed their pen and put in a second fence, with a sign that said "don't feed the reindeer," so Joe didn't get to make friends with them this time.  I believe Donner and Blitzen are here, but I didn't see the names of the other ones.

Kaylee, since I didn't get to talk to Santa about you and what you wanted for Christmas, you might want to write him a letter.  Grandpa took a picture of the address so you can do that.

This was our only adventure today because we were still worn out from the Prudhoe Bay excursion.  We got back to the RV about 2:00 and Joe took a nap.  Tomorrow we hope to try to find some GOLD!