Anchorage happenings

[glacier_kitty]

On Friday mom and I drove to Anchorage..the weather wasn't too bad till we passed Denali Park, then it rained most of the rest of the way. There was lots of fresh snow on the mountains, which looked cool contrasted against the red fall colors of the tundra. I devoured another entire Flavia de Luce novel (which again mentioned glaciers, and "the Pole" haha..who would have known??). Our hotel is by the float pond..a little noisy, but cool seeing the planes take off. It's weird how Anchorage doesn't exactly feel like Alaska..when I see the mountains I just want to jump over them and see the Glacier Paradise on the other side haha

Yesterday mom went to a bunch of quilt shops, and I went to Title Wave Books (yay!). I miiight have bought too many polar exploration books LOL (my basket was so heavy, and I hadn't even looked at the fiction yet!). The coolest thing I found was Emperors of the Ice, a kids novel based on The Worst Journey in the World, told in Cherry's voice! (I about fell over when I turned the book over and saw a giant pic of Cherry on the cover LOL..I had to hug it :P) It's been on my Amazon wishlist for awhile, so I'm glad it was there. I also found Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrier, one of the first men to successfully climb the North Face of the Eiger..I'd been looking for it for years! It was funny..I asked if they had it and she brought me to the shelf across from the polar books, where I'd already been like five times haha..how did I miss it?? We found some geocaches, relaxed at the hotel, and then went to Olive Garden..yummm. *drools* Then we did more relaxing at the hotel lol

Today I met up with Aimee (hopefulspirit)! We've been LJ friends for years, but this is the first time we've met in person. Yay, I love meeting LJ friends lol. We had lunch at Yak and Yeti, a Nepalese restaurant next to Title Wave Books. It was cool talking with her. :) We also went to the mall for a little bit, and got some nice smelling things at Bath and Body Works (I have to be careful though, some scents give me a headache) and some smoothies/milkshakes. We also took her geocaching for the first time..there were some cool ones for her first time caching, like a bird's next. I squeed when I came across someone's Maine Coon cat LOL..I called to it and it let me pet it. :D Maine Coons are awesome lol. After that we parted ways..we'll have to get together again sometime! Here's a pic of us!

Yay hehe

Tomorrow we drive back to Fairbanks..maybe I'll devour the next Flavia de Luce novel on the way back :P

Comments

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

That's great that you met up with Aimee :D

[siberian-angel.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, autumn in Alaska must be so amazing, with the tundra in such popping colors. I can't decide between autumn and winter, most of the time I just love both.
I've heard many people comment that the mosquitoes in AK are badass. What's their main season/month of activity? How do you deal with it?

[glacier-kitty.livejournal.com]

Haha yeah, we have notoriously giant mosquitoes. :P They start coming out around April or May, and usually they're pretty bad from July to August. I use bug spray if it's bad enough (one time I used a net, and taunted the mosquitoes that couldn't get to me LOL). They can be annoying, but we have to get out when we can lol

[hopefulspirit.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad we got to hang out! Geocaching was a lot of fun, and that cat was so cute! Be sure to let me know next time you're in town and hopefully we can get together again. :-)

[chazzbanner.livejournal.com]

Thanks for mentioning Emperors of the Ice - I hadn't heard of it before! (I bought it)

[foxydanish.livejournal.com]

Aw how fun!! That's a nice picture of you and Aimee :) Sounds like you ate a lot of yummy food and got some great books!