Before I came to Juneau I read a lot about what kind of clothing I'd need. People dress in layers, because you never know if it's going to get warmer during the day, or rain, or whatever. The main thing I found is that you need good footwear! It rains here, and it rains a lot! Keeping your feet dry is important.
The number one choice in footwear, by far, is xtratuff boots. They are awesome! They're also expensive, and I couldn't find any place in Boise to buy them. I didn't want to wait until I got up here to get proper footwear, so I found some muck boots in Idaho (completely waterproof & insulated, just not quite as lightweight as xtratuff)
Yesterday I finally had reason to wear them. It rained pretty much all day, and when I got off after work I was feeling pretty discouraged and thought it would help to go for a walk. I was right. Now I'm not sure if it was the walking, or the total ridiculousness of the outfit I was wearing that cheered me up, but either way it worked.
About this outfit I had on :) It has to start with this - for the first time since I got to Alaska I was having a good hair day. It had been sunny all week, and on the first day of good hair it rains! Also, since I've been in Alaska I've been wearing shorts. So now you have the picture - a good hair day, ruined by rain, me in shorts, and to complete the look I put my muck boots on. But I didn't just put the boots on over my boot socks, I folded my boot socks down over the top of the boots so they wouldn't slide down my legs. Are you with me here?
So I'm all dressed up, looking very Juneau Local like and off I go for a walk in the rain. I was laughing at how ridiculous I look, but realized that nobody thought a thing about it. Here it's about functionality, not fashion, and I fit right in! Oh, I forgot to mention, I was also wearing a fleece hoody, again, another Juneau staple when it comes to clothing.
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