Saturday, July 08, 2006

Anchorage and home!

Anchorage was a very nice city to spend a couple of days. The first night in we made it to the Captain Cook (a 5 star hotel) and were very underwhelmed. I thought it would be a great place to end our trip, but the pool was not included in the $220 a night room fee. They wanted $10 a piece for pool priveliges. That would be $100 for two days for the family, about the price of a season pass in Tremont! Well, I went down to the desk and pointed that out nicely, and told them we traveled 5,000 miles to get here by car, and they signed me up for the Captains Club for free! I felt like Mark Scott... Well, the toilet shifted when you sat on it, the bathroom fan was broken, and the TV's were consoles - So we had to watch the "Truman Show" on the laptop. Then when the guys went down to swim, we were told that Mitch and Joshua could not swim because they could only swim at certain times, and this ain't it. So we did not swim in Anchorage (although Cory and Chris go in fine. Go figure...)
Well, the next day we did laundry, and then head out to eat lunch with the Yar's (Scott, Elizabeth, Scotty, Tabitha, and the other one). It was a blast to talk with real Alaskan's. That night we watched the "Truman Show" and went to bed at midnight.
The next morning we layed around on our bed and watched Dirty Harry movies. We tried the swimming thing, but that didn't work, so we took a hike to Flattop Mountain. It was an awesome hike, and we got in way over our heads. At the top of the mountain, it was very rocky and Mark got a big gash on his leg during a landslide. There were people there (Alaskan's probably) with little kids on their shoulders hiking up this thing. I thought I was going to loose one of the boys! Chris and Cory waited about half way up, but me and the boys made it to the top. Then, when we started going down, Mitchell cut himself on a rock and it started bleading like crazy. I ripped some strips of my shirt and made a bandage, and we started our descent. It was quite a site! Mitch had a blood soaked rag on his hand, and we were all filthy. We made it down, however, and have a good memory!

That night we tried to nap, but excitement was pretty high for the plane ride home. We drove to the airport, parked the van and we were off! It was a blast on the plane, as everything Mitch and Joshua saw was new to them. I watched a movie on the first flight, and the kids watched a movie on the second. We met Brian, Adam and Matt at Ohare and had a great talk with them, and then took the Farney van home. The drive home was uneventful. It was good to be home.





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