Craft sale

Sunday, April 4: High 12F Low: -7F Length of Day: 15h 54m

The natives had a craft sale on Sunday at the community center. There wasn't a lot of items there, but what was there was pretty cool. There was a polar bear skin, a musk ox skull, and a narwhal tusk. I always thought that the narwhal had a horn, but apparently it's actually a tusk. Most males have only one tusk, while every once in a while a male will grow two tusks. Females rarely grow tusks, and a female with two tusks is super rare. The narwhal tusk that was at the craft sale was about 10 feet long. It wasn't smooth, but instead looked like it grew in a spiral and was wavy because of that. There were also polar bear teeth and seal teeth for sale. The polar bear teeth were going for $50 a piece. The disappointing thing was that if you weren't into dead things, there wasn't much else to buy. I expect at least some sort of bead work or art work, but alas, there was none of that around.

Our 5:30pm daily briefing meeting are sounding like broken records where no information is actually imparted. We are told each day, "Perhaps we'll fly tomorrow, perhaps we won't. Perhaps we'll go to Fairbanks, perhaps we won't. Perhaps we'll fly a local sea ice flight, perhaps we'll fly a land LVIS flight, perhaps we won't." *sigh* But at today's meeting, it was mentioned that there are delays in the P3 which might force us to extend our trip in Thule one week. The P3 is the plane that is going out next month from Wallops Flight Facility. They are also coming to Greenland probably to Thule and to Kangerlussuaq. An extension of our trip would allow us to fly P3 missions to make up for their delay. However, I can't be here another week - my ex-husband would kill me. If we extend, I'll have to return on the rotator on the 23rd and have someone else come out to replace me for the week.