Postcard: Alaska

We received a postcard this week from Fairbanks, Alaska.

It was slightly confusing to Sunshine, as it is a "Canadian Postcard" club ... but we embraced it.  Speedy had fun finding it on our map.  He knew where Canada was, and where he thought all the United States were ... but he DID find it! 

We found out that Fairbanks is a 46 hour and 40 minute drive from our house.  When we were writing our postcard to them and enjoying an afternoon snack, the family in Alaska was just sitting down for lunch as we are three hours ahead of them.  For Speedy, though, it was the sheer number of volcanoes, particularily active volcanoes in Alaska, that caught his attention!

  Card Collection

These are the letters/photos we have done so far:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Postcard Exchange

We mailed out two postcards today.

We started trading postcards late last year.  We chose to begin with families within Canada, but have already received a few worldwide requests.  We find Winnipeg postcards, add our own knowledge/insight, and send them off.  The receiving families do the same from where they live, and we receive a card for our collection.  We get to read a bit about where they are from, and we keep our cards in a map box, where we can mark the location of each we have received.

Today we send cards to Dundas, ON and to Prince George, BC.