Weekend in Fairbanks

First full week of classes went all right.  The engineering department had a free barbecue outside in the quad Friday so my Mechanics professor let us out early and I checked it out during break.  Definitely a step up from RIT free barbecues.  Hot dogs, hamburgers with lettuce, tomato, onions, cheese and a few other things I can't think of.  Not to forget potato salad and a huge bowl of spear pickles plus soda.  Anyway, it was delicious and a gorgeous day.

So later that night the people upstairs had a bon fire in the backyard which was pretty cool.  Roasted a few marshmallows, met a few people and had a good time.

Saturday I got up to do a few things and stopped at a crazy gift shop with this crazy guy that doesn't stop talking and has the most random things.  He actually led us into his creepy basement to show us an insane collection of all sorts of antlers and mammoth tusks.  My phone wouldn't take a picture of the stock pile of antlers but there must have been hundreds more to the right it was just darker.  I'm not entirely sure why there's so many, but he had some cool decorations made out of a few of them.

After that I went to the farmers market which was awesome.  Tons of stuff there, bought a few things and had this fried dough type thing with different meats and onions grilled up and put inside.  Then had probably the biggest corn on the cob I've ever seen (people put hot sauce on their corn here....) and some chicken teriyaki on a stick then got some locally made ice cream and called it a day.  Going on a fall-photo hike tomorrow so hopefully weather will be good for some pictures.