Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Catching Up…Again

We spent the day in Talkeetna on Monday…I think.  These are just some pictures from around town…and what a darling town it is.  014  006 007 Haven’t a clue who these people are but the breakfast platter was huge.008 009 010 011 012 013

Talkeetna is where 3 rivers converge…can’t remember the names…hope you all don’t need all that technical stuff.  The milky color is a result of the runoff from glaciers…yuck…looked like Milk of Magnesia.019 015 016  More town shots. 020 021 022 023  025 024028 029 031 034 035  036

Bob, Mark and Sue, Joe and Loretta all took a small plane ride…they landed on a glacier and got out and walked around for a while.  I chose to save my money.  As you may know, the flowers in Alaska are just breathtaking.  These shots were taken at the airstrip. 037 038 039 040 Here is Bob trying to find the correct size of shoes for glacier walking.

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They had a great time on their flight…I had a great time napping.

One evening Bob and I and Susan and Mark drove to Wasilla to see what was happening. We got to meet a park ranger and 2 of Wasilla’s finest…after we got rear ended!!!!  Luckily no one was hurt and the damage was minimal.  This is our car.  Can you see the bit of red paint thru the dirt?055

This was other driver’s car…and it wasn’t even his…he had borrowed it from a friend.  Mark asked the young man what part of his car made the impact and he said heck if he could tell!!! The rest of the car looked worse than this.056

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We had also driven thru a national recreation area to see about the possibility of camping.  It was a pretty park but not laid out for us.054 049 051 052 053

I will just never get enough of looking at the fireweed.

Moving on.

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