Camping with Auntie Flo

Last week my Ta-Tas hurt like crazy and a felt slightly crampy, but I did not think that I would actually get my period for some time still. I normally got 3-6 months without it, so for it to be some what on time is just weird. I was not prepared at all to be spending any of this week with the hubs in the trailer, camping and being on my period. Just the first part. Whatever, I cannot change anything. So I just will have to live through the cramps and deal with the one selection of tampons that they have at the local 'market' aka the gas station.


Can Friday come any sooner? Its been since Sunday since I have seen a hot shower, or a cold one at that. If you could only see these bathrooms here... you would gag, just like I did the first time I ever visited the hubs here in Healy. To give you a little insight on where exactly I am I will give you a little description of the 'town' .

Healy is a short ten mile drive north of Denali Nation Park. In town you have the two gas stations, one on either side of town. An Inn called that Totem (where I am at the cafe), a building that looks like a hotel that rooms all the Princess and Park workers, and a mini grocery story that cost an arm and a leg. O I cannot forget their school k-12 and I think they have a library too... never have seen it though, then you have a three or four mile road and at the end is Usabella Mine. two miles down that road is the turn off to where we are living. Its another two miles on a very bumpy dirt road ( I have to hold on to my boobs it hurts so bad) and you get to the Alaska Railroad Section House. When You first pull in you see a quaint little camper village made up of different size trailers and maybe a few tents here and there. There is a nice size garage/office building and then a few little buildings all around. They are the shower houses and the kitchen (that is just as dirty as the bathrooms). This is where the hubs will call home for who knows how long!

Okay enough of my bitching, I just cannot wait to get back to running water and my own queen size bed. But it will be sad to leave behind my husband and not see him every day. That man is truly amazing. The first day back to work they were out there on the tracks for 13 hours, yesterday it was 9, and today its supposed to be another long one. I do not see much of the hubs when I am here, but I love that I can make him lunch and dinner and snuggle on the twin bed while we watch movies. I have also become oblivious of all the noise and commotion going on out in the rail yard. I can now sleep through mid night trains, whistles, bulldozers and voices. But maybe I am getting too much sleep. Na! Never, just recuperating from my hard season of photographing.
I am off to uncover some more family mysteries.