The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage by Anthony Brandt (May 30-June 11)
Lieutenant Castner's Alaskan Exploration, 1898 by Lieut. Joseph C. Castner (June 11-13)
Winter Study by Nevada Barr (June 14-20)
The Shameless Diary of an Explorer: A Story of Failure on Mt. McKinley by Robert Dunn (June 21-26)
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief by Lilian Jackson Braun (June 27-30)

Robert Dunn's diary was shameless all right..he was very anti-Semitic and blamed everything bad that happened on the Jewish guy that was on the expedition..he kept saying stuff like "I hope the stupid kid drowns" and "I have the racial, not the religious, repugnance to Jews. I had never relished their race-selfishness..." Wow. D: They were also very cruel to their horses. ( warning: animal abuse under here! ) I can't believe I actually kept reading this book, but I have a weird thing where if I'm far enough into a book, I'll force myself to finish it (maybe it'll get better??), even if I'm hating it. That guy was awful, cruel, and super negative. This is only the second book I've rated one star on (the other was A Cat Named Darwin..that guy was cruel to his animals too). Someone on Goodreads said this book was "a lighter, less noble counterpart to The Worst Journey In The World." Lighter??! There was NOTHING light about this book. Don't even compare this awful book to the masterpiece that is The Worst Journey in the World. Ugh, one of the worst books I've ever read D:

Today there was a geocaching meet and greet at the Visitor Center to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday (you get a digital souvenir for going to an event for Canada's birthday). Always nice seeing old and new faces. :) After that mom and I went caching on Ester Dome with Jeanie (the lady mom used to work with, who we saw at the festival). I always love the beautiful views up there (too bad there's trash everywhere..ugh). I think we found around five and then went back home. Nice :)

( here are a couple pics )

( July 1: Cloudy )

Tonight I start on the journey to Florida! First we fly to Seattle, then DFW, then Charlotte, THEN Florida. Eesh, I'm gonna be so tired haha. I've never been to Charlotte before..it'll be cool seeing a new place, even if it is just the airport :P

Recently Ryan's been watching this show called Alaska Gold Diggers..it's about these women who are descendents of a famous gold miner that got murdered before he could get his gold..the women wanted to continue his legacy and went mining. Well one of their mines is on Ester Dome!! That hill is like down the street from my parents' house!! (Well kinda haha..you still have to drive up there :P) I always wondered why part of the hill looked like it had been cut in half..I had no idea it was a famous gold mine haha! So cool..

Greeeeen hills!

( today i have had my lj for 5 years..yay! )

Prince William Sound: The place the Exxon Valdez hit the reef and spilled all that oil. A wonderful collection of islands, inlets and glaciers in sounthcentral Alaska, named by Capt. James Cook

Yesterday mom and I went up to Esther Dome. It was a clear (though hazy) day and we could see the Alaska Range..most of it had clouds but not Mt. McKinley! There were no clouds AT ALL..that must be rather rare. The people at Denali yesterday were lucky..though in the afternoon it clouded up on the mountain again (we went up to the college to see). As we were driving back down we saw this guy and he wanted a ride so mom let him. I thought I was gonna get murdered! Sure he was nice but I didn't know him..

Last night I went out to eat and I shall put what it said on the placemat haha

( poem )

Today's stupidest quote:
Weakest Link host Anne Robinson: What is the maximum number of Mondays that can occur in a calendar month?
Contestant: One