I realize that I haven't been updating my blog recently. I have been so consumed in work and vacation bible school (this week's hobby) that I haven't had time to go online. There was a unique activity today that I had to take the time to shed some light on it and I will go back and update my blog tomorrow on the midnight sun events.
Television network, TLC, decided that Nome, Alaska is an ideal place for their next reality tv show. One of the most popular restaurants in town is a common tourist attraction. As previously mentioned, Airport Pizza is well-known around this area and delivers pizza to many villages. TLC is in Nome for the next 2 weeks to film Airport Pizza and various Nome activities. They filmed most of the Midnight Sun festivities. Tonight, they created an event that had the whole town talking.
Airport Pizza conducted a pizza eating contest. This contest took 2 starving people and gave them 30 minutes to consume a 26 inch pizza (yes I said 26 inches). It seemed like everyone in town came to watch or eat the "large" pizza. The contest was primarily used for TLC to have more to show on their Pilot episode of this new reality show. And of course, many people were happy to show the wacky side of Nome that we all know and love. A man who dresses up as Santa and has gone to Santa conventions around the world showed up in his usual red attire. A cute little old man who tends to talk alot and likes to sing old songs you would hear in a lounge came to do commentary for the show. There were the usual bar drinkers. And what would a Nome event be without Velvet Eyes, Nome's residental reindeer? Even Velvet participated in the pizza eating contest (as you see in the picture above). Lets just say that his partner was the luckiest person there because he knew Velvet would eat whatever he couldn't. Over all, about 5 people were able to complete the contest.
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