Riding Behind Ramey's Dog Team

At the picnic, I got a ride behind Ramey Redington's team. The person screaming is not me! It was a 6th grade boy sitting next to me. What do you think you would have done while you were on this ride? Scream, shout, sit silently--what? Add a post and let me know!

Snowball

Hi Everyone! I just got a comment from Spencer asking if I am having a good time. I am having a fantastic time! I was out of internet range for the past few days and could not write about some of the most exciting parts of my Alaska trip. Guess what? I got to meet Ed Stielstra, (the husband of Tasha who came to our school with the sled dogs,) Jeff King (4 time Iditarod Champion), Martin Buser(4 time Iditarod Champion), Jessie Royer (past rookie of the year), Alliy Zirkle, and more mushers at the annual Volunteet Picnic and Musher Sign-up. It was at the Iditarod Headquarters. I got all of their autographs and have pictures of most of them. Two really exciting things happened at the picnic. I met a good freind of the Redington family. He took me around to meet and chat with every Redington that was at the picnic. (Remeber that Joe Redington, Sr. was the father of the Iditarod.) I got to meet Ramey and go on a sled dog ride that he was doing. (I will post that video soon.) I also met Ramey's wife, Barb, who is really the mother of the Junior Iditarod. Then I met their sons, Ryan and Ray. Both of them are going to do the Iditarod this year. Both of them have their own dogs and train them. I met all of Ramey's dogs and found out that his sons think that Snowball is one of his best dogs. They both want to talk their dad into giving them Snowball, so I put her picture on this blog. I will write more tomorrow, but right now I have to go to my airplane. By the way, I have a lot to tell, so I will add to this blog for at least another week. I have cool videos and pictures to show you. Hope all of you are having a great summer. I will be in Grand Rapids for the fireworks in EGR so I bet I will see some of you soon! Mrs. A.

P.S. I struck gold! Stay tuned for further blogs!