My Summer Days in Alaska

Last summer, I visited my uncle in Alaska. Can you guess the time in the picture? It was actually 9 p.m. My uncle said, “The Sun doesn’t set from May to July. So Alaska is ‘The Land of the Midnight Sun.’”

One day, my uncle took me and my cousin, Jimmy, to the Alaska State Fair. Jimmy signed up for the wood cutting game. People started cutting the wood fast. I cheered for him, but he didn’t get the prize. “It was hard. The wood was wet,” Jimmy said.

We got hungry, so we went to the food court. We had salmon sandwiches. They were very new to me. At home, I usually put ham and cheese in sandwiches, not salmon. They were tasty because the salmon was so fresh.

We, then, went to the Giant Vegetable Contest. All the vegetables were huge! My uncle entered the contest with his pumpkin. It was bigger than a pig! “The crops get about 20 hours of sunlight a day during summer. So they grow bigger and sweeter,” my uncle said.

When we left the fair at 10 p.m., it was not so dark. It was a fun day.