We wore Pink hats and Marched!

We tumbled out of bed and munched breakfast and then layered up in warm clothes, boots and mittens (with hand warmers) We then chose our pink hats (all knitted by Eldest daughter) and set off through the snow for the bus stop.
Perhaps we should've shoveled the snow first ....as it was we found it was rather deep outside the back gate and very keen to fall off the fence and the trees and down our necks and boots.... where it isn't piled we have a couple of feet of snow lying on the ground ..it must've been snowing all night. Where it's fallen off the trees it's deeper ...sort of thigh deep ..guess how we know?
A white out winter snow storm and we were marching ...well it is Alaska in Winter and we were darn well going , even if we thought some people might not make it ..they expected 2,000 and in the end believe over 3,500 made it! It was crowded ..in a nice way , we all milled about and looked at each others signs (some were rather funny) chatted, clapped and whooped, stomped (truthfully I stomped and clapped a lot to keep warm ..it's hard to hear in a snow storm ) The march around the park was slow because of the amount of people and we missed the after march meetup a. because there were more people than would fit and  because the girls feet were cold after an hour and a half in a snow storm. So we set off home...shook off most of the snow and caught our bus, negotiated the back gate warily this time and youngest still got snow down her neck and almost lost any sense of humour until I slipped and dunked my face into a snow drift ..when she regained it!
 This evening we are worshiping the wood stove and mugs of tea and cocoa and reading about all the marches. It was nice to be a part of something positive in such anxious times.

local News re Our March here 

Oldest daughter knitted all the hats here ..if we look a bit cold it was 14 f/-10C and snowing ...haha