Trip to Alaska

Mom and Dad weren't sure if they would be able to take a trip down to the states to visit this spring so they flew Dayton and I up to Alaska.

It ended up being a very long trip.  Our plane flew out around six in the morning but we had a midwife appointment the night before.  We decided to just go to the airport after the midwife appointment so we wouldn't have to drive down to Denver twice in one night.  

Floors in airports aren't very comfortable.

After finally getting on the plane we ended up sitting on the ramp for two hours before flying to Phoenix (from Denver to Phoenix while trying to get to Alaska???).  

In Phoenix it was another nine hour layover before finally getting on a plane for Anchorage.  

It wasn't all bad though, I did get to see the Grand Canyon. :)

Dad, Deborah and Sarah came into Anchorage to pick us up.  After doing some shopping and spending the night in Anchorage we flew out to Nondalton.

The weather in Alaska has been crazy.  End of February and absolutely no snow on the ground.  There was green grass growing in the yard for awhile.

We've been having fun while we've been here.
Dayton's been helping out the boys with some remodeling they've been doing.

Sarah has been saving all the baby cloths she finds for us to bring back for the baby so we've been sorting them out.  If we have a girl we'll be all set. :)

Everyone had fun showing Dayton the shocking game.  Everyone holds on to one of the handles then when the light goes off the last person to push the button on their handle gets shocked.  I do not play this game. :)

We've played quite a bit of Settlers of Catan also.

A few nights ago they had Family Fun Night at the school.  This time we played Jeopardy.  David's team pretty much cleaned up and won the whole thing.

Can't forget about bible study. (And some coloring being as how on this particular night it took us a good half an hour to get through the first verse.)

We've also been having fun walking across the lake and driving up the mountain on 4-wheelers.  We finally got some snow a couple days ago so we've been towing behind the snow machines and driving them up the mountain also.  I'll post some pictures from those expeditions later.

We've been in Alaska for about three weeks now.  We'll be here for another week then we're driving back down to the states with the whole family.  Looking forward to the trip down the Alcan with the family!