Vacationing in Anchorage

Our second reservation for Monday was cancelled. Now the earliest we can leave Anchorage is Sunday night, and we will be avoiding Europe altogether this time. Our new route is Anchorage to Minneapolis to New York JFK to Cairo. The flights are not as good as the original ones, but this way we can avoid the volcano zone.

With all of our moving chores done, we have been hitting the town. On Saturday we went downtown to the Kids' Fair in the morning and had dinner with our friends Amy, Rob, Nolan and Robyn in the evening. On Sunday we swam in the pool in the morning and enjoyed Taco Night with the Predegers. See photo below of Henry, Finn, Reid and Nathan in costume.

On Monday morning we visited a new hangout, Arctic Playgroundz. Henry (dragon) and Nathan (gorilla) really enjoyed putting on costumes. You can see an unknown child trying to horn in on our photo below.

In the afternoon I took them to Bouncin' Bears and then to the Dimond Mall. We rode cars, did arcade games, rode escalators and got photos in one of those booths. I wore them down! Then we topped it off with dinner at Don Jose's restaurant, and we met Don Jose! Henry and Nathan were very impressed by him.

Today we took the boys to Arctic Gymnastics for some hard core exercise. We ran, balanced, jumped on trampolines, did obstacle courses, and jumped into pits of soft foam. Then we went to Alyeska for their fourth ski lessons. They did great and both spent their lessons going up and down the Chair 3 lift and runs. Below is a picture of them getting shuttled from the daylodge to the lift. By the end of the lesson, Henry was skiing without Edgie Wedgies! Both kids were very tired and slept the whole way home where we picked up Moose's Tooth pizza.

After relaxing and watching the Cinderella movie, Henry applied a healthy amount of "medicine" (body lotion) to his forehead. That tiny scratch should heal in no time!

We found out that we have to move hotels tomorrow since ours is full for the next few days. So we will spend some time relocating all our stuff (junk) tomorrow.