Anchorage...we hear seagulls!

Our trip down to Anchorage was spectacular. It started with a clear as a bell view of Mount McKinley...wow, only 9000/300,000 annual visitors see it completely clear, we are sooo lucky! Mom had Dad stop the RV and make pictures, but Cinder and I just stayed onboard!

We saw lots of beautiful scenery and the road was excellent!

We passed through the town of Wasilla...why this terrible picture of a fence with the US and Alaska Flags?  Hehe...that is Sarah Palin's house, we understand she got a ticket last week driving the highway we are on!

When we arrived at the campground we heard two distinct sounds we hadn't heard in a while, seagulls and the beautiful Thunderbirds! The seagulls are whiter than ours, quite pretty!

Last night and this morning we heard the train, right next door, we loved hearing it! Of course Reveille at 6:00am at nearby Elmendorf AFB wasn't so appreciated😊. Anchorage feels about like the size of maybe Richmond, but with <300,000 people it is much smaller!

This morning Mom and Dad went down to Ship's Creek to watch the Salmon running. They are nearing the end of their time down here, but still plenty of salmon to catch!  mom will tell you all about their day!

Next we went to the Ulu Factory, these are the knives made by Eskimos that look like an herb chopper!

Up next was the Anchorage Museum, a huge museum that covered a lot of ground.

The top floor had a whole exhibit on Mars with a NASA funded study of the Arctic Sand Dunes to see correlation with Mars, of course, I had to recognize NASA!

The rest of the floor was all about the problems with plastic (a little too much lecturing on the evils of plastic for us), the sculptures were all out of plastic things from the water, so that part was inventive...

The next floor had nice videos and displays of different native tribes. The costumes were amazing and the Asian and Russian influences were prominent!

The last area was a sweeping view of history, particularly the fishing industry, the 1964 magnitude 9.2 (2nd greatest in world) earthquake, and WWII.

As we walked downtown to grab a bite to eat we noticed there are beautiful flowers everywhere, their season may be short but folks make the most of it!

Lunch at the Glacier Brewing Co included a nice smooth Amber Ale and Reindeer with Bleu Cheese pizza, sounds weird but delicious!

Finally we hit a local seafood market to purchase some fresh Off the boat salmon and halibut. I don't know if we will do a fishing trip (I do get seasick fishing), but this was a pretty good way to go!

Then the rain started so Wayne got a MUCH needed haircut, mine needs it too, but I am much pickier on where I go!