So what have we been up to lately?

Well lets start with a few weeks ago. Kevin and I went with our friends Holly and Montana into the park and backpack camped into the back country. It was a ton of fun. It was my first experience with packing everything you would need for an over night tent camping trip into a pack and then carrying that pack into the wilderness and camping. We rode the bus all the way into the park as far as possible which is Kantishna "the end of the road". It's 91 miles into the park. We took off up a mountain and hiked 3 miles up the mountain until we found a clearing that overlooked the Alaska range which includes Mt. McKinley. It was absolutely gorgeous. We set up camp and stayed for the night. We woke early the next morning to the rain coming down. We packed up and hiked back out to the road. We then came back home. We were all really sore from all the uphill hiking but it was so much fun that none of us really cared.

Last week Mom and Bryant came up for a visit. They were here for this past week and we enjoyed showing them around. We got to see some moose up close and personal while out driving around, it was pretty cool. Except for the part where we were almost run over by and moose then we almost ran into it while the truck behind us almost run over us. It was exciting after the fact when we realized we lived through it.

Yesterday we hiked up Mt. Healy which is right behind the hotel property. It was about 7 miles round trip. It was a fabulous view.

I hope to be able to upload some pictures soon from all our exciting adventures, so stayed tuned.

This week we are going down to Wasilla to spend a couple of days at the State Fair. We also hope the skydiving thing will work out this time. I will update when we get back.