Juneau

June 20, 2011

Tomorrow is our 43^rd anniversary.  Yes!  You can congratulate usJ.

Yesterday was a fun day.  We lazed around in the AM and went to some “Glacial Gardens” where the guy takes trees and sticks them in the ground upside down with the roots sticking up – fills that cavity with moss and dirt and plants beautiful flowers inside.  The ride up the mountain on a little golf cart was not worth the money we paid, but I would sure recommend seeing the garden.  Just wander around before they holler at you to pay your $25 eachJ.

After the gardens we wandered around downtown Juneau – parked right near the capitol building and walked.  By the way, we are sure getting in our share of walking! 

We’ve been eating dinner later and later – tonight we had “wine and cheese” and smoked salmon by some people we’ve met a couple times on our travels.  They happened to end up in the site next to us last night.  Tom and Mary are from Colorado.  We didn’t eat dinner till 8 pm!  And that is 12 midnight in GR J. 

Today after a morning of reading and walking around we took a drive north of here – 37 miles of it and then the road ends.  We stopped to see the mountains across the bay from here – the Chilkat Mtns. Those are all snow covered and very jagged indicating their relatively young age. Then, we went toward Juneau where we found a Starbucks with free Wi-Fi and I could check email and our bank acct.  We were back to the campsite around 4 pm and then we were able to read for awhile again before our wine and cheese at 6:30 pm.

Now it’s 9:15 and we plan to play a game or two of Rummy Cube which Marty presently leads by a few small points.  I plan to win.

June 21, 2011

Wow, we made it to 43 years :).  Who would have thought 43 years ago that so much would happen in our lives.  It's been a wonderful, sometimes painful, sometimes fun, and mostly just living normal everyday lives together in harmony.  Our kids might tell it differently, but this is how I remember it.

We woke up to mostly sun this AM which is the first we've seen of it since coming to SW Alaska.  We had a shower, breakfast of bacon and french toast, then packed up to head toward the ferry dock, stopping on the way for a couple hours at the laundromat.   I got a cup of coffee at the local coffee shop for $1.00 - can't believe it.  Anyway, time to post this and get outa here before Marty is upset that she has to fold all the laundry alone.