Northern Lights

Saturday, October 31, 2009

I've wanted to see the northern lights ever since I was a kid and have always been fascinated by this one scene in Balto with all the snow and the crazy green lights. Yeah so I want to go to there in real life.

2 winters ago...Patti, Paul, Becca, and I spent an evening watching Balto and baking Christmas cookies (pumpkin cheesecake cookies to be exact). The movie ends with a grandma and her grand-daughter visiting the balto statue and the grandma is like, "OH BALTO, ID BE LOST WITHOUT YOU". Ironic, because so many people get lost in central park looking for that ridiculous statue. Anyways, we traveled to New York City that following spring break in search of good food and that ever elusive Balto statue. We found expensive, subpar food at some swanky Manhattan restaurant and then hiked 31 blocks to central park. Long story short, we never found Balto. Instead, we played on some sad little playground with a slide and a lot of mulch. I remember there being a lot of mulch because Becca got face-planted in a whole lot of it after coming down the slide too fast. There was also, of course, the obligatory trip to FAO Schwarz to buy bulk candy.


In a letter that Paul wrote to me from Armenia last month:
"Have you seen the Balto statue yet? Last time I went, I searched for it. And searched. And searched. What actually got us there was soemone who pointed us in the right direction after I went crazy and started yelling, "DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE BALTO IS?!?!" So next time you have a difficult question, yell it to the nearest crowd."