Sunday, June 21
SUMMER SOLSTICE, FAIRBANKS
The actual Solstice must have happened sometime yesterday but today is the celebration in Fairbanks. Sunrise this morning was at 2:57am and sunset will be at 12:47am. Try to wrap your head around that, lower 48! The length of our day will be 21 hours and 49 minutes. I know that solstice happened yesterday because tomorrow will be 0 minutes and 36 seconds shorter daylight than today. It’s all down hill from here.
The Midnight Sun Festival is a big day in Fairbanks. Sort of like the Flower Festival in Lompoc but since they have 21 hours of sunlight they do it all in one day. It is in the downtown area and there are three stages belting our music and dance all day long. We were surprised at the quality of the shows. We started with a trio of two guitars and a mandolin, heard a great jazz band and then listened to Cold Steel which was a large steel drum band. As near as I could tell all the groups were local.
There was also a show put on by Dance Theater Fairbanks the was very good.
Then... there was the choice of food. At least in Lompoc you have a number of days to sample everything.
We had a great time and our only regret is that we pooped out before the Lonely Hearts Burlesque came on at 9:30pm.
OH! I just remembered why we pooped out. Along with doing all this festival stuff we were doing a self guided tour of the downtown area. The Visitors Center provides visitors with a map of town and a guided tour on a headset so we walked around and saw all the historical buildings that weren't washed away in the floods in the 1950's.
There is also an interesting monument to the pilots of Russia and the USA who cooperated in flying over 300,000 airplanes up through Canada and Alaska and over Russia to get them to the battle fields of Europe. I didn't know anything about that!
SUMMER SOLSTICE, FAIRBANKS
The actual Solstice must have happened sometime yesterday but today is the celebration in Fairbanks. Sunrise this morning was at 2:57am and sunset will be at 12:47am. Try to wrap your head around that, lower 48! The length of our day will be 21 hours and 49 minutes. I know that solstice happened yesterday because tomorrow will be 0 minutes and 36 seconds shorter daylight than today. It’s all down hill from here.
The Midnight Sun Festival is a big day in Fairbanks. Sort of like the Flower Festival in Lompoc but since they have 21 hours of sunlight they do it all in one day. It is in the downtown area and there are three stages belting our music and dance all day long. We were surprised at the quality of the shows. We started with a trio of two guitars and a mandolin, heard a great jazz band and then listened to Cold Steel which was a large steel drum band. As near as I could tell all the groups were local.
There was also a show put on by Dance Theater Fairbanks the was very good.
Then... there was the choice of food. At least in Lompoc you have a number of days to sample everything.
We had a great time and our only regret is that we pooped out before the Lonely Hearts Burlesque came on at 9:30pm.
OH! I just remembered why we pooped out. Along with doing all this festival stuff we were doing a self guided tour of the downtown area. The Visitors Center provides visitors with a map of town and a guided tour on a headset so we walked around and saw all the historical buildings that weren't washed away in the floods in the 1950's.
There is also an interesting monument to the pilots of Russia and the USA who cooperated in flying over 300,000 airplanes up through Canada and Alaska and over Russia to get them to the battle fields of Europe. I didn't know anything about that!
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