North to Alaska!!!!

It has been a while since we’ve updated this blog, so we have a lot of catching up to do!

So I (Sarah) have been looking for a job since last March, and didn’t have much success finding anything in Las Vegas so I started applying out of state, and unbeknownst to Levi I applied for a job in Fairbanks Alaska. At the time I wasn’t even exactly sure where Fairbanks was in Alaska. Well anyhow this firm called me and I had a couple of phone interviews, and they offered to fly Levi and I us out so see the town and so I could have a formal interview and meet the firm. This came as quite the surprise to Levi.

So we flew out the end of September and we decided that I should take the job. While we were there Levi met with a few construction companies and we felt pretty good about him finding a job.

Then at the end of October we packed up a little Uhaul trailer with everything that would fit and began our 3000-mile journey to the “land of the midnight sun”. We drove from Vegas to Utah and spent about a week with our family and friends. We left for our Alaskan adventure about midnight because we were so excited and couldn’t sleep! Levi’s parents (James & Teena) came with us to help us move and help with the driving. It took us about 5 days to make the drive from Salt Lake City to Fairbanks. We only had one real set setback, we were about 30 minutes from Haines Junction in the Yukon Territory, and we got a flat tire on the Uhaul.

Since we didn’t have a spare (thanks to me talking Levi out of needing to get one…) we unhooked the trailer took of the obliterated tire and drove to Haines Junction to see if we could get a new one. So we got to HJ and found out that the town was pretty much closed for the winter, they told us our best bet was to drive back to Whitehorse, which was about 2 hours the opposite direction. So that set us back a little it, but other than that the drive was good. Here are a few more picks of the drive up...

Muncho Lake

So I started working at Richards, Johnson, & Granberry the middle of November and so far I am really liking my job. I am basically doing the same thing that I did in Vegas. It only took Levi about a week to find a job. He is working at Doyon Associated as a field engineer. We are pretty excited that he was able to find a job so quickly. Part of his job entails a couple stints (about 6 weeks each) up in Prudhoe Bay working on the pipeline. Prudhoe Bay is on the northern coast of AK and is prob about 7 or 8 hours from Fairbanks. I am not excited about being apart that long, but we’re grateful for this opportunity.