First Day of School!

Hope started Kindergarten at Denali Montessori yesterday. Her teacher is Mrs. Irene. Hope loves it! She wants to eat "lunch on a tray," so today she got the hot lunch. It was very impressive - egg roll, rice, and a "peach thing." She loves it and wants to have lunch on a tray tomorrow too.

Grumps, my dad, brought Hope back to Alaska from two weeks in New Orleans where she had a lot of fun and played a lot of Uno (the card game).

One of our favorite activities these days is going to the raspberry bushes in front of our house and gobbling up all of the ripe berries. The morning of the first day of Kindergarten was no exception.

Trip to Seward, Alaska

In August, Jolie's mom came to visit and we went to check out Seward. We took a boat ride around Resurrection Bay and saw whales, sea otters, sea lions, seals, eagles, loons, oh my! It was a lot of fun, but not real toasty. A boatride is something all visitors should do.

Glaciers:


Glaciers calving - booming and splashing - it's an incredible site!
We saw several humpack whales - Nic did a good job of getting this dive captured with our camera:

Judy is getting our photo with the New Orleans' daily paper, The Times Picayune - we'll let you know if we're published in the paper:
Steller's Sea Lions sunning (?? - sun is all relative - ??) themselves:

A side trip to Exit Glacier outside of Seward the day before the boat ride:

The sun making a rare appearance on a picnic on our way to Seward:

In case anyone is following our remodel, pics will be posted soon. And we are DONE!...with the things we're paying others to do. Is anyone ever truly done??? Well, we are as done as we can be for now. Of course, there's always the paint touch-up, picking out the right thing to hang on a strange wall, etc. And there is still more fun to be found outside (we've identified the trees to sacrifice to improve our view of the ocean!). The saga will continue - as most of you can relate to. And summer is almost over - WHAT HAPPENED??? Still hoping some of you will make the time to visit the last frontier!

Love, us!