Last of Alaska

You are probably really sick of Alaska by now, but these are the last of them. We ate at this restaurant that use to be Jon's favorite when he lived in Alaska. This was in Steward. It was good food.
A picture of the front of our train on the way to Denali.
Can you believe how pretty it is here?
Jobi won this little stuffed husky dog for being the best kid on the bus. Lucky for him, he was the only kid on the bus. He was so happy to have won. He named him Juno.
I love this shot. It needs to be blown up and on a wall somewhere in my house. This was taken in Talkeetna. He was crossing a bridge over the river. This was taken in June and he looks so much older than that now. Crazy how life works. Thanks for looking!

Almost the last of Alaska

We took this train from Anchorage to Denali. It was one of our favorite things. It had a little eating area and they had some of the best food on our whole trip. It was very comfortable too.
In Denali we were lucky enough to see wolves and then we saw wolves with puppies. I guess this is a really rare thing. They were so cute playing with each other and wrestling.
This picture was taken at midnight one night. We were there for the summer solstice. It was pretty crazy to be up at 1 in the morning and it seemed like it was like 8 at night. We got like no sleep on that whole trip, but we had a lot of fun.
It looks like Jobi finally blew his top. Poor kid. No there was a fire in Fairbanks. They don't put the fire out unless they are endangering houses. It was 75 degrees in Fairbanks and it felt like it was 95. I guess it is just closer to the sun.
I think my son is the cutest boy. He is so photogenic too. I think this one was taken in Talkeetna.

Denali

Here is Denali. I guess it is super rare to get such a clear shot of Mt. Denali. It is such a different experience in person. It is definitely a monster of a mountain.
Jobi isn't such a bad photographer is he? We had such a great time in this town we stayed in before we went into Denali park. It was called Talkeetna. It was a cute little town to explore and there was a river Jobi really liked to hang out by. The people were very nice there too.
There were really pretty flowers all over the place. If anyone knows what kind this pink flower is, please let me know.
This was inside Denali National Park. It looked a lot different than I thought. I wasn't like trees everywhere. I thought pine trees would be everywhere just like on the cruise ship going along the inside passage. There aren't regular cars aloud inside the park and we had to take a school bus tour all the way in and out. It was fun, but long.
We saw some animals while we were there. Bears, wolves and puppies, snow hares, and caribou.

More Seattle

I love this picture! I think it is so cool. He looks so lonely sitting there all alone.
Yikes! Extreme close up. The only thing that would make this picture better is the fatbooth app for my phone. I will have to show everyone who is not on Facebook what the funniest thing ever is. More to come on that.
Some Jonny love. It's so pretty in Seattle. I love being so close to the ocean. I have always felt some connection to the ocean and dolphins and whales. I just love them so much.
We love totem poles at our house. They have a couple of cool ones right by the market. If I didn't live in an HOA I would totally have one in my yard somewhere.
Got to love the Orca totem. I love Pacific Northwest art. Thanks to Alaska for finally giving my house some of that art for my house. I think that is all of our anniversary pictures. Looking forward to going back to Seattle in September.

More Anniversary

The groom.
There was so many flowers everywhere. This is the view from the place we ate at.
Me.

We went to the space needle and got to see the view from way up there. We stood in line to see it for like 2 hours. It was so crowded up there too. It was really pretty up there though. I had never been up there before. I think Jobi would really like to see that view. Pretty nice.

11th Year Anniversary

It seems like we always do bigger anniversaries on the odd years, but we have fun no matter what we do. This year Jon was going to be in Seattle already and we thought it would be fun to meet up there. We had a blast. I didn't want to go home! My good friend Becky said she would watch Jobi for me and I was happy she did. We needed the break.
We ate at this really good place right at the top of Pike's Market. We had a great view of the market and the ocean and a bunch of flowers. It was so pretty. Here is the happy couple enjoying our view.
We stopped at the Apple store to check out new headphones so I captured the moment!
We ate at a sushi place that the food moved around on a conveyor belt. It felt a little cafeteria ish, but it was really good. I saw a place to eat like this on The Hills, so it must be hip.

This was in one of our many cab rides. More to come of our Seattle trip and I never finished Alaska. You are all probably sick of hearing of Alaska! Too Bad!