How many babies can say they've been to Alaska at 10 months old?! We all survived baby's first long flight (5 1/2 hours!) on Tuesday, and here we are! There is a group of 29 of us working in Anchorage this week on a missions trip for our high school youth group. So far, we're all still here, and no major drama . . . ! :) What a beautiful place - we've all been commenting on how much it reminds us of Minnesota (is that why we keep running into MN people everywhere?!) with mountains. The weather has been great, and the kids are doing a pretty good job of living in community. We've experienced some ethnic foods - seal oil, dried salmon, smoked salmon, dried halibut, "Eskimo ice cream," and Sailor Boy pilot bread (not really an ethnic food, but an AK staple and really good!). Tonight we had a fish fry with fresh halibut (caught last week) made by a friend of one of the students. Amazing! I even tried a reindeer dog at the Saturday Market today - yummy!
Caleb has done a great job and is hanging out with his new friend Madeleine, Kate and Phil Canon's 2 year old daughter. He's always thoroughly entertained by all the students, and he LOVES playing with everyone. On Wednesday we went on a 3 mile hike, and Caleb got to ride in his new backpack. He loved it! We had one sleepy boy on our hands that night, even though he fell asleep in his pack on the way back to the trail head. Caleb has adjusted to the time change pretty well - it's been great!
Riding on the plane - the seat belt was very entertaining!
Cheering at the First Covenant softball game on Tuesday night. It was about 10:45 when this picture was taken! (1:45 our time . . . )
Riding in style . . .
Daddy & Caleb in the Chugach National Forest.
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