An interesting night

So, after a few wines the other night we all decided we were up for a night out, and an interesting night it turned out to be... We called up some people and in the end 7 of us piled into a taxi for a big night in Fairbanks, Alaska. Through a train of circumstances totally out of our control we ended up at the Arctic Bar, which is what Simon called a Native Bar. Turned out apart from the band we were the only white (and Malaysian) people in there. I guess we were a novelty too as the men (all six of them) had no shortage of dance partners. One woman in particular stood out, Connie, who made it her goal to dance with every man in the group. And she managed that all right. I had my own admirer George, who spun me around for a few dances. Finally at about 3am we all got kicked out and then the real stories began. Firstly Connie decided it was a good idea to throw her wedding ring away, I found it and she threw it away again...not impressed. Then George started asking for money "Can I have $20"?, "No", "How about $40"?, "No", "How about $60 then" , "Still no". Finally, our taxi arrived and we decided to drop one old man off, Mike, who decided that I was the one who must take his 16 dogs. I pointed out that actually I don't want 16 dogs but he was pretty adamant it must be me. That discussion lasted the entire journey going round and round in endless circles until we got to his stop. Things got mpostly back to normal after that, apart from the amazing taxi driver who after dropping us off, came back to say he had seen a moose and took us all out to see if we could see it (we could not) and then took us home again, only in Alaska! So that was our night, and our first real experience of the Athabascan people, an experience I won't forget...

Sarah