A night out on the town!

Our night out just consisted of us going to a hockey game. It was our first Alaska Aces game and it was a lot of fun. They beat the Condors 7 to 1. We hope to get to more games this season.

The snow is here!

It finally snowed yesterday evening and night. We ended up with about 2 inches of snow as of this morning. Kevin was not really excited about driving to work in the snow this morning however, he knew he would have to eventually. He is just glad it didn't do this his first week of work. Hope you enjoy the picture.

Backpack camping into the Park

Here are some pictures from our backpack camping trip in Denali National Park. Our friends Montana and Holly went with us. We rode the bus into the park to the end of the road. At the end of the road is the old gold mining camp called Kantishna. We found an old road that we hiked up 3 miles to a clearing that over looked the Alaska Range including Mt. McKinley. We pitched our tents and enjoyed being out in the wild where the four of us were the only people in the world that knew exactly where we were. It was a fantastic trip and one that we hope to do again someday. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Here are some of the pictures we took on the bus ride out to Kantishna:
Some bears A golden eagle a fox The four of us at one of the stopping points along the road. That's Mt. McKinley in the back ground.

These two pictures were taken when we made a stop at Eilson Visitors Center, there were some antlers laying on the ground so we took advantage for a picture moment.

Along the road we hiked up to the clearing.

The four of us on the clearing where we pitched our tents. Holly went further up the hill and took our picture before we pitched our tents.

Our tents!

We had to go at least 100 feet away from our camp site to eat. That is one of the rules that you learn in the safety class that you have to take in order to be able to overnight camp in the park.

This was a rock cliff that we climbed up and sat on for awhile. This is where we took the picture (above) of our tents.

After set up camp we went for a walk along the ridge line. We found a huge blueberry patch along the way, so we stopped and enjoyed them.

This was the view from the hill top clearing.

When we woke up the next morning it was raining and VERY foggy, so we had fun packing up!

New home, new job, new experiences

We moved into our new apartment over the weekend. We are renting a 2 bedroom at Deer Park Apartments. Which means we have room for visitors! We bought a mattress and a friend gave us a couch and a coffee table (which the TV is sitting on right now). We are waiting for more income before we start accumulating more furniture. Speaking of income. . . . Kevin started a new job today. He is working for JL Properties. They have the contract for maintaining military housing at Elmendorf Air Force Base. I however will be collecting unemployment until I find a good job. Until that time I am setting up our new home. I have decided that opposed to just being a housewife I am more of a Trophy Wife. HAHAHAHA!!!

So far we are really enjoying Alaska. We had a great summer and fall so far and we are looking forward to a great winter. We have a couple that we made fast friends with over the summer at the Chalets that is staying in Alaska for the winter. Another friend of ours from the summer will be staying in Alaska also and living with her Aunt. The 6 of us are planning on spending Thanksgiving together. Even though we will not be with family and enjoying our old traditions we are excited to start new traditions here in Alaska.

As of this posting we do not have any snow here in the city but there is plenty of snow on the mountains nearby. There is snow in the forecast toward the middle to end of the week. It is very different from last year when the first snow came at the beginning of the second week of October. Locals have been telling us that this fall has been very warm. Although I do believe that the cold is here now and here to stay for awhile. The temp this morning was 12 degrees at about 6:30AM. The high today is supposed to be in the mid 20's.

I have been having some technical difficulties with getting some of my pictures downloaded from my cameras that I am trying to get taken care of in the next couple of days. I know I have been saying I would post pictures soon for about 3 months (or more) but I really am going to try VERY hard to get some uploaded on here this week. I will just have to postpone unpacking some.

Have a great week everybody!