Sorry for being so bad in updating on my life. For starters I would have to tell you that I am having so much fun in Alaska this summer. Acutally, I would have to say that this is the best summer I have ever had, and I am very happy. After the stress of last school year I have loved the freedom of my Alaska life.
Skagway has been such a blast. Believe it or not it has been so warm here. And when I say warm I mean HOTTT!! Seriously, this summer has been the warmest I have ever experienced up here. We have actually been swimming. We go swimming quite frequently. I never thought that I would go swimming for pleasure up here. In the past we would just jump in just to say that we had done it, but now we actually go swimming.
One thing that I have come to enjoy here is the spontanity of life. A couple of weeks ago, my roommate Ali and I decided to go to Haines and do some camping out there. As I was parking my bus after work on Wednesday, Ali called me to tell me that she had gotten us on 5:00 p.m. ferry. I looked at the clock and it was 4:00. Since we were so short on time Ali picked me up in her car and we ran home to pack our bags for a fun night of camping. While packing we decided that it would be best if we took our bikes with us so we could get around the town of Haines more easily. But since Ali had picked me up from my bus my bike was still in the luggage bays of the bus. Quickly we ran down to bus yard and grabbed my back. I looked at my watch again and it was 4:50, and we were about 10 minutes away from the ferry terminal. We quickly biked as fast as we could to get there, and pulled up right on time.
We were so excited to be on our way to Haines that we talked and gabbed the whole way there. Once we pulled into the town of Haines we about to get off the ferry when a guy who works for Chilkat Guides came to ask what we were up to. We told him about our impromptu trip and that we didn't really have any plans. He then asked if we would like to go camping at Glacier Point. Which is where the company Chilkat Guides runs a really cool tour where you canoe out to a glacier called Davidson Glacier. I had been there before on the tour and I knew it would be cool to camp out there, because no one goes out there to hang out. So we decided to stay on the boat and continue another 30 minutes to Glacier Point.
It was an amazing trip here are the highlights.
This is Ali and I. It was a rainy day but it was still so beautiful! Check out the fireweed behind us.
We went for a bike ride and this dog which is one of the guides decided to come with us. She was really fun and would run around looking for us.
This is Ali and I. It was a rainy day but it was still so beautiful! Check out the fireweed behind us.
We went for a bike ride and this dog which is one of the guides decided to come with us. She was really fun and would run around looking for us.
We found some wild strawberries! They were so good. We went back the next morning and picked some to take home! So tasty!
We were riding around in the woods when we found this! So weird. It's called a Yert and its owned by some basketball player that lives in Haines.
This is the inside fo the Yert. It was really cool. Still creepy though!