The Iditarod happens the first Saturday in March.  There are people that take care of the dogs on the 964 mile track.  In my classroom we each pick a musher to keep track of until tje race it over.  Oh! What is a musher?  A musher is a person that takes care of the dogs, like feeds them amd gives them water on the 964 mile dog race.  The race starts from Anchorage, Alaska and it finishes in Nome, Alaska.  In the there must be a 24 hour rest sto for the dogs, it is mandatory.  It does not matter were the musher stops on the race, but you must stop at a checkpoint.

   It does not matter how many mushers join the Iditarod. Right now there are a lot of mushers that have signed up.  I am looking at this site - http://iditarod.com.  I am looking at a few mushers.  I have learned about a few and here are their names: Kristy Beringen, Martin Buser, DeeDee Jonrowe, Bruce Linton, Lance Mackey, Anna Beringen, And Jeff King.  There are a lot more musher but I did not choose them.  Every year there can be the same musher like last time, only if they want to join again, and there can be new mushers.

   If you want to do this race you need to take care of 16 dogs, this is how you take care of them in the race:
1. You need to take aabout a 2 hour rest for you and your dogs.  (Or longer.)
2. When the dogs rest they need to have strow under neath them so so they do not have to lay in the cold snow.
3. You need to give them water water with the food that you need them.
   You know what is cool?  That when you get to a checkpoint there are big letters and whatever you last name's first letter is, is where you get your food.  If on dog gets sick or injured it has to drop out of the race, and after the race is over the dogs get to go back to their mushers.  In the race there are veterinarians and some other people that support the dogs.

 

We visited the turtle shelter in a Thailand Navy Golf Course.  Because sea turtles are endangered, people kill the sea turtles, there are some people that are killing the turtle eggs.  (Or something, I do not remember.)  The mother sea turtle haves her baby eggs on the sand, next the mother sea turtle goes back into to the sea, then when the baby sea turtles hatch, they go back into the sea.   When the sea turtles head their way back towards the sea, the have to face the really strong waves, and some of the sea turtles will die.  And that is very sad, new born babies have dead?!  And when the sea turtle is an adult they have to rise their own baby sea turtles, with a lot of other baby turtles.

The turtles can live until 100 years old.  Wow!!

There are a lot of different turtles.

Here is a small turtle.

This small turtle is resting.  And it is a green turtle, that is 15 days old. 

Here is a two headed baby turtle.

This two headed baby turtle, dead when they were only 4 monthes.  Because they were sick or something.  I do not know what happened? 

Can you think what happened?
(Write it  when you write a comment.)
Thank you.  :)

Here is a Hawksbill turtle that is around 2-4 years old.  (I think?)

Here is a Green Turtle that is around 2-4 years old.  (I think?)

Here is a Olive riley Turtle that is around 2-4 years old.  (I think?)