Saturday November 17, 2012

Well, today was our last day in Barrow! I was very lucky to have finally gotten sleep. Unfortunately, that didn’t occur until late in the morning and so I didn’t get out of bed until about 2:30 pm….but that’s okay. I spent the afternoon slowly getting ready to leave, packing up last minute items and leaving the rest of my food and a hair dryer for the students ha. After that I met Mirri at Cold Man Coffee (THEY HAD ESPRESSO!) so we got espresso with the on-call van driver and then headed back to the dorm until it was time to leave for the airport. We ate a small dinner with Mirri and before you knew it, it was 6:15 and we left for the airport at 6:30! I changed into my scrubs for comfort and we said our goodbyes. It was so surreal pulling up the airport because it seems like we had JUST done that when we arrived. It was just as mind-boggling. We’re still upset we didn’t see a polar bear! Pastor Morrow came to see us off at the airport which was so kind. The airport was packed since there is only a morning flight an an evening flight out of Barrow. We boarded at 7:47 and departed Barrow at 8:30! It was pretty emotional taking off and looking down into the darkness, knowing this crazy adventure hasn’t YET left us! We have a very LONG night and day of traveling into tomorrow afternoon. Oy. Wish us luck!