Arrival in Anchorage

Hello! Kelsey is still snoozing so I'm writing the blog post. Anchorage is AWESOME! We flew down with seats next to a man who is retired. While retired he's been a park ranger and a bunch of other things to "experience" life. Really cool guy. He gave us the inside scoop on Anchorage because he's been living here for the last 16 years. Because it was so late when we got in last night (9pm local 12am central) we just hopped across the street for a quick bite. We went to the Glacier Brewhouse and had fresh pan seared Alaskan Sockeye Salmon and a Mediterranean pizza. I took pictures so they'll be posted. WOW! Both were DELICIOUS! MMM!!!






There are flowers all over downtown in hanging baskets and along the sidewalks. There are also some pictures of those. We took a quick walk around our block before eating. Today our plan is to investigate all of the very different and unique shops. Anchorage supposedly has about 300,000 people...1/2 of the population of Alaska and 1,300 moose inside the city limits. It was funny driving in because the world's busiest float plane airport had float planes coming in and there are metal fences everywhere to keep the moose out of yards. Didn't see any though. If I do I am totally jumping on one and riding it like a wild stallion! (My mom just said..."oh no...don't!" because she doesn't get that it was a joke...haha!)

While flying in there were giant mountains with snow/glaciers melting into giant rivers. Kelsey took some pics from the plane of that so that's what those are. Our Anchorage expert (I won't post his name for privacy concerns) sitting next to us on the plane said that Anchorage is surrounded by mountains and the ocean...the mountains keep the cold out and the ocean keeps the warm in during winter and in the summer the opposite is true. He also said that there is really fine mud along the ocean from the retreating glaciers and people try to walk on it and sink in and die. Not from drowning when the tide comes in but from hypothermia because the water is so cold! I plan on taking the wild moose stallion for a ride to the mud flats when I find a wild moose.





Anyway, that was a lot of info...now for the pics...