Thursday, June 18, 2009

Great visits and more

Back from our roadtrip across Alaska. On Friday, Jon and I flew down to Anchorage to pick up the family. We had a safe trip with not much activity. Kaden did great on the 6 hour drive down to Anc.

Saturday, we all drove down to Homer, Ak. We saw many moose and eagles. Had a great trip and good times visiting. Much of the drive was through the mountains and along the coast. Beautiful driving!

Sunday, the boys were up early to go on a fishing charter. They caught halibut, salmon and rock bass. They had a great time! They were glad to come home with fish. We were just glad they came home safe! Us girls spent the day playing on the ocean shore and shopping. We spent the night in Soldotna at a church camp, Solid Rock Camp. (the youth pastor at my folk's church has a buddy who runs it)

Monday was our longest day of driving. We drove from Soldotna, had lunch in Anchorage, pee break in Palmer, sheep watching along Caribou Creek, glacier viewing at Matanuska Glacier and then made it to Glennallen. Jon and I met in Glennallen and we have many friends there. We had dinner at the Princess Lodge with our friends, Anthony, Daisy and their son, Caleb.

Tuesday, we had breakfast with our friends and then drove to Valdez. Along the way, we hiked up to the face of Worthington Glacier. We saw many waterfalls and eagles. We did a wildlife cruise that afternoon, seeing whales, sea lions/otters, puffins and eagles. We had dinner in Valdez and then drove back to Glennallen.

Wednesday, we took a tour of Glennallen, seeing the clinic where I worked and the bible college where Jon went to school. We drove up to Fairbanks, stopping in Palmer for a pee break, Delta for a lunch break and in Salcha, to see Jon's folks house, our church and to get some icecream at the Knotty shop (a local tourist giftshop). We finally made it to Fairbanks!! We had dinner at our house, finally getting a home cooked meal after eating out and packed lunches on the road all week.

Thursday, we finally slept in!!! We had breakfast at our place and then did some shopping. I got to show my mom/sisters where Kaden goes to daycare and where I work. We had a cookout tonight with Jon's family, at Jon's sister's house along the Chena River. It was the first time for some of our family members to ever meet. We had a great time! Pictures to come!

Here are some of pictures of our travel:


Kaden playing with his buddy Caleb (Caleb is 8 months, Kaden is 7 months old)


bff (best friends forever)...they love playing together


jon hiked up to the face of worthington glacier with kaden


on the cruise in valdez, looking into a cave for puffins


a sheep on the mountain at caribou creek

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