Weekend Adventures
Saturday I drove to Seward, one of the most gorgeous towns in Alaska! It's about a three hour drive from Anchorage, but it's one of the prettiest ones that you'll ever do--around Turnagain Arm, onto the Kenai Peninsula, past lots of glaciers, mountains, and icefields, and over to the Gulf of Alaska. We ate lunch at the park next to the skatepark on the water (which I have to say is probaby the most picturesque skatepark in the world!), and then spent two hours at the Alaska SeaLife Center. Pretty cool. Fun seals, a friendly octopus, a Giant Squid, lots of fish and sea creatures...but the neatest of all was the puffins. I've never really given much attention to puffins before, but the SeaLife center had an underwater viewing area for the puffin exhibit which was so cool. One puffin just kept diving down to the bottom, yanking on some kelp until it was out of breath, zooming back up to the top, and then swimming back down again....and again. It was neat to watch.
Although we had to be back in Anchorage for dinner, we did quickly stop to see Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park. Overall, having to drive 6.5 hours to only spend 3 hours in Seward was annoying, but well worth it. It was a sunny, almost cloudless, and HOT (upper 70s?) summer day...pretty rare...so we were lucky.
Saturday night we treated the students to neon (cosmic) bowling. They had a blast.
Sunday I went to ChangePoint for church and then in the afternoon I meandered around the Alaska Zoo. The Alaska Zoo is much the same as other zoos, with a ton of different animals (elephant, polar bear, bald eagle, etc.), but at the same time there was some distinct differences about it. There were many arctic creatures present, such as the Tibetan Yak, the two-humped Bactrian camel, musk ox, reindeer (caribou), moose, etc.
The best part by far were the babies that were present!! An orphaned porcupette, a baby musk ox, & two orphaned baby brown bears. The brother and sister baby bears were so cute...I must have watched them play for at least an hour. I was about 4 feet away from them and they were both playing around in the water in a little bathtub that someone had just donated. They loved to fool around. They wrestled and splashed and kicked each other while biting each others ears every few seconds. Little brown balls of fur...they were seriously so tiny and adorable!
After the zoo I took some of the students over to ValueVillage to have some fun thrift store shopping. I found some green pants for $5 to replace my favorite pants that I split last weekend while backpacking. Then I spent four hours watching Along Came Polly and Starsky & Hutch before bed. :o)
Saturday I drove to Seward, one of the most gorgeous towns in Alaska! It's about a three hour drive from Anchorage, but it's one of the prettiest ones that you'll ever do--around Turnagain Arm, onto the Kenai Peninsula, past lots of glaciers, mountains, and icefields, and over to the Gulf of Alaska. We ate lunch at the park next to the skatepark on the water (which I have to say is probaby the most picturesque skatepark in the world!), and then spent two hours at the Alaska SeaLife Center. Pretty cool. Fun seals, a friendly octopus, a Giant Squid, lots of fish and sea creatures...but the neatest of all was the puffins. I've never really given much attention to puffins before, but the SeaLife center had an underwater viewing area for the puffin exhibit which was so cool. One puffin just kept diving down to the bottom, yanking on some kelp until it was out of breath, zooming back up to the top, and then swimming back down again....and again. It was neat to watch.
Although we had to be back in Anchorage for dinner, we did quickly stop to see Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park. Overall, having to drive 6.5 hours to only spend 3 hours in Seward was annoying, but well worth it. It was a sunny, almost cloudless, and HOT (upper 70s?) summer day...pretty rare...so we were lucky.
Saturday night we treated the students to neon (cosmic) bowling. They had a blast.
Sunday I went to ChangePoint for church and then in the afternoon I meandered around the Alaska Zoo. The Alaska Zoo is much the same as other zoos, with a ton of different animals (elephant, polar bear, bald eagle, etc.), but at the same time there was some distinct differences about it. There were many arctic creatures present, such as the Tibetan Yak, the two-humped Bactrian camel, musk ox, reindeer (caribou), moose, etc.
The best part by far were the babies that were present!! An orphaned porcupette, a baby musk ox, & two orphaned baby brown bears. The brother and sister baby bears were so cute...I must have watched them play for at least an hour. I was about 4 feet away from them and they were both playing around in the water in a little bathtub that someone had just donated. They loved to fool around. They wrestled and splashed and kicked each other while biting each others ears every few seconds. Little brown balls of fur...they were seriously so tiny and adorable!
After the zoo I took some of the students over to ValueVillage to have some fun thrift store shopping. I found some green pants for $5 to replace my favorite pants that I split last weekend while backpacking. Then I spent four hours watching Along Came Polly and Starsky & Hutch before bed. :o)
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