Piuraagiaqta! Spring has sprung in Barrow

It was Piuraagiaqta this past weekend.  Piuraagiaqta is the Spring Festival.  It usually winds up getting cold that weekend, but this year it was not bad at all.

Friday and Friday night were very windy.  It was so bad that the Snowbird Cleaning folks got stuck at the BARC and had to be pulled out.  We were going to have lab, but the combination of the blocked drive (which meant that we’d have to park and climb over the drift) and an afternoon hockey game for some of the students meant that there really wasn’t enough time to make it worthwhile.  I did go over for a while, and it turned out to be a good thing, because Josh (one of the UICS ARM techs) got a little too far into the drive when he came over to check the radar, and I had to help him get out.

We went to the parade.  It started with Miss Teen Top of the World and a color guard.

There were vehicles and floats from many organizations.  They were all tossing candy, which kids and grown-ups alike gathered up.

NSB vehicles. Miranda Rexford-Brown picking up candy.