Solstice Party!

Today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Although the sun never sets here, it means that the sun is at the highest angle in the sky. Last night we had a solstice party and bonfire. Two of the people that work at Toolik built this awesome wood structure out of pieces of scrap wood (pallets, wooden spools, boards etc.) and then lit it on fire! It was a pretty impressive structure! The lighting of the bonfire was pretty amusing since the pallets that formed the base of the structure burn really fast. As it burned it began to tilt and the crowd all said, "oooh.." a few minutes later the structure faltered and down it went! Everyone jumped back a foot as the flaming structure went down!