Iditarod/Iditaread Finish

Here Chance is showing his "Three-peat" sign for Lance Macky's win

Here are the kids with their certificates for finishing the Iditaread

In homeschool we began studying about the Iditarod in February so that we would know what was going on when the race started in March. We made a neat little lapbook for it with most of the info we learned. We also participated in the "Iditaread" which is where each of the kids pick a musher to race against during the Iditarod. The kids read books while the musher runs the race. One page = 1 mile, so the kids work hard to read at least 1,131 pages (books on their grade level) which is how many miles the southern route is this year. Savannah picked a rookie musher - Jen Seavey, while Chance went up against Ryan Reddington who is one of the grandsons of the founder of the race - Joe Redington, Sr. It was a really exciting thing to do. The kids pressed hard and each one finished their pages before their musher crossed the finish line in Nome. Chance finished about 7 hours before his musher (12 days, 7 hours) and Savannah finished about 4 hours before hers crossed (13 days, 21 hours). I was so proud of how diligent they were. We rewarded them by taking the family out to Chuck E Cheese last night for pizza and games. The Iditarod was awesome to be a part of - it's lots of fun and so exciting to check on every day. We were cheering for Lance Mackey who ended up winning for the 3rd year in a row - he reminds us of Dale Earnhardt - just a good ole' boy. The race officially ended today as the last musher crossed the finish line. We can't wait to do it again next year!