You know you're from Alaska when.......

1. Your idea of a traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a motor home on the highway

2. "Vacation" means going to Anchorage for the weekend

3. You measure distance in hours

4. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events

5. You think of the major food groups as: moose meat, fish, canned food and berries

6. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at the grocery store at any given time

7. You know what Bunny Boots are

8. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow

9. You can go to McDonalds to order off the $1.50 menu which they feel is equivalent to the $0.99 menu 

10. You go to school, work, or both in the dark and come out in the dark 

11. 30 degrees is shorts weather 

12. You tell people you live in an igloo for kicks 

13. You don’t swim in natural bodies of water for fear of swimmers itch or beaver fever...or leeches 

14. Having a moose in your front yard is a legitimate excuse for being late to school 

15. You refer to the continental US as the "lower 48" or “the states”

16. You get an attitude when you have to pay tax in the lower 48 

17. Salmon isn't a delicacy, it's a staple 

18. You don't sleep in the summer because it's too short to miss a minute of it 

19. Half your friends own a snow machine and you think people that call them snow mobiles are dumb 

Nasa Rocket sent into Northern Lights - 2012

20. You've seen the northern lights and you know why they are such a "big deal" 

21. You only watch the news when they announce the amount of the year’s PFD

22. You wear flips flops all year without getting sick 

23. You've never seen cotton or tobacco growing, but your neighbor has a 30 acre pot field 

24. You know the term "studs" isn't referring to hot guys. 

25. You give up and tell people in the lower 48 that you DO live in an igloo and you DO have a pet polar bear named Mishka when they refuse to believe otherwise. 

26. You call someone without a crack in their windshield a tourist 

27. When you go to the Lower 48 you wonder where everybody's block heater cable is