LOST!

Tuesday nights are LOST nights! I have a growing group of friends who watch the show which is awesome because we can get together to have dinner and discuss theories before the new episodes.  What night is complete without getting into arguments about quantum physics? hahaha, I love it!

I can't believe it's the last season!

 

  

 

Yay Seward!

Dan and I got to take a day last week to visit the SeaLife Center (for enrichment purposes only, of course).  It was really really cool.  They have a lot of great exhibits that really draw you into the center and make you care.  They also have one of the world's largest underwater aviaries (think puffins and tons of other diving ducks), sea lions and seals.  AND the SeaLife Center is in Seward.

 

Seward is a special Alaskan town because it has a really nice little downtown area where Dan and I got a bucket of Halibut for lunch and walked around looking at the mountains.  Exit glacier is also in Seward, but it is too dangerous to try to get to this time of year.  The drive between Seward and Soldotna can be a little treacherous; luckily we decided to  go the day before a big snow storm.  Now the whole town is white again, and I am happily back in Soldotna.

P.S.  I applied for an internship at the SeaLife Center as well a bunch of other places, so wish me luck!

I Am an Eskimo!

Well, at least I can pretend like one!

There are ice sculptures all over town because of the winter games.

This one at the visitor's center is my favorite!

Just a short walk on the beach...

Dan and I thought that we were going to be having an easy Sunday by skipping our usual hike on the refuge to go for a walk on the beach.  First of all, we should have known our walk was doomed from the start when we couldn't get to the beach from the parking lot because of the lake of melting ice slush blocking our way.  Then it might have been a hint when we were walking towards trouble when we had to keep on getting closer and closer to the water because all of sand on the bluff side of us was covered in massive ice chunks.  But really we would have been okay if we had just paid attention to how fast the tide started coming in.  Ok, so actually our timing wouldn't have been that bad if it wasn't for all that ice.  While we started out having a great walk on the beach, we ended up slipping and sliding our way back while the water crept closer and closer, and our walk ended with a climb...up the side of the bluff.  oops.  I didn't remember my camera which is too bad because it was a beautifully clear day and we could see all the mountains across the inlet, but I do have proof of our trip...