This town has seen its fair share of reporters milling around, and crawling around in Sarah and Todd's bushes from what they say. They seem to want to find anything, just anything, of substance on Sarah Palin. I'll bet it's just super frustrating to find that she's just an honest, genuine person with brains and attractive looks sporting styling glasses and a well-coifed up 'do (as she prefers most of the time). And as for that Trooper, ex-brother-in-law incident... pretty much all the town will tell you he's a total jerk, just bad news and a loser.
One thing that is neat is the news coverage showing our town. There's so much talk of my little town nowadays and it really has grown so much in the time since Sarah was Mayor here. I'm glad you folks are able to see a bit of the landscape, the beautiful mountain peaks and wonderful lakes here. I'm sure they won't stop filming anytime soon so if you haven't caught one of the news stories showing Wasilla yet, there's still hope. The kids sure think it's neat that everyone around the country is seeing their little Alaskan town.
I see my pastor has posted a little blurb on the church website stating that Sarah and family several years ago attended regularly at Church on the Rock. I'm sure he and the church staff, and the congregation, were getting hounded by reporters. I'm sure the reporters felt duped once the wikipedia site finally listed her home church correctly. It took about 5 days to work that through. Maybe we'll have visitors with big cameras and mics this Sunday, or maybe not. We'll see!
I'm proud of Sarah for doing so well on her speech night. I never doubted her confidence because this is just the challenge she's up for. She's always been known to pull off the most challenging of things with such grace. What a classy woman! My only observation through her speech was that they might have coached her a bit just to get her point across with the few remarks she made upon driving certain Obama issues in. They probably coached her a little on being just a tad bit tougher in her presentation at those times, but it was needed to sell her speech. And it worked! She delivered! What a truly remarkable person she really is.
I'm so thrilled she's now into the hand-shaking, actual meeting one-on-one with the nation's townfolks! She's so gifted in that type of setting. It does shape up for an interesting showdown in the next 2 months.
Here's a picture of the family at the Alaska State Fair last week when we were there.
It was fun. The kids enjoyed the rides. It was their first time to ride big rides other than the bumper cars they rode in Colombia. Fabian loved the bumper cars at the Fair because he got to drive by himself. He really thought he was tough! The girls loved the CRAZY and WILD rides and Fabian didn't like them too much and would only tolerate them. Karen is clearly my daredevil child. She had her hands up on some of the scariest ones when Fabian was gritting his teeth and making a terrible face with a two-handed death grip on the handlebar. No screams of enjoyment came out of Fabian's mouth, but Karen and Missy -- just the opposite. They were begging for more rides all day long.
We enjoyed all sorts of Fair food. So many firsts for them! They loved the Dippin' Dots and said that surprisingly the Elephant Ears tasted a lot like bread. Hmmm, now imagine that? The biggest hit was the huge bag of Kettle Corn we got just before leaving. Marissa really thought it was cool that the lady who waited on us and bagged our Kettle Corn was one of our friends from church and we talked to her for a while... okay, okay, the real story is that this lady is the Grandma of the guy from church Marissa's had a crush on for almost 2 years now. I guess that's really big stuff to a 10 year old experiencing an outrageous crush on a boy... to talk to his Grandma is just outta- this-world cool!
Back to the Kettle Corn, all my kids love it but one of them inhales it. Luis would grab a huge handful, lean his head back and pop his whole fistful of Kettle Corn in his mouth, all the while using his other hand to scoop up another handful. Both hands were working systematically like a well-maintained machine. He would swat at his sisters and brothers hands to get at the popcorn. I had never seen anything like it. There is no way he ever learned anything of this sort from us. I just don't allow it. But it was interesting for a moment to watch the baby just devouring popcorn like that. Shocking! So many things come so naturally to that little guy that makes me shake my head wondering why. Don't count me out as being weird or anything, but with the high percentage of times I marvel at this little guys wonders, I can't help but question if he has seen life before. Weird, I know, but so many things have happened in such a short time together to raise our eyebrows. Maybe I'll try to better explain it sometime.
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