Sunday, September 30, 2007
The folks come up for a visit
So, it's been forever and a half since I updated here but now that a totally rad summer is over, time to get on with it right. Yeah. Totally. So, back in June just after the Nome trip my folks came up for a week. That was pretty fun. We started things off with a canoe trip through town. Got off to a great start when my mom almost fell in and flipped the canoe but... no problems, they got settled in and were floating in total style:
Drug them to Denali Park among other places on the tourist circuit. Here's the view from a washout:
We took the road all the way though and saw a ton of animals. Totally got our money's worth. I even saw my old nemesis, the antler beetle.
My first interaction with that bugger was way back when I was a kid. At the end of my first trip down the Yukon with the boy scouts we had just popped out of the shower in Dawson and were just hanging out waiting for everybody to filter through the two or three showers this antler beetle landed on my shoulder. I just caught sight of it out of the corner of my eye and pretty much saw a huge dragon or some other monster. I was totally petrified (Rob or Andrew can vouch) and ran circles trying to get it off. Running in circles didn't work. Can't remember how it all ended but hopefully there was one casualty. Anyway, we've been sworn enemies ever since.
So, back to the trip. The bonus of the denali trip was it was gorgeous and we saw a ton of animals like these bears:
The minus was the bus driver was a birder so we were stopping for every darn hair feathered blue duck or whatever that he could see. Pretty awesome though.
So, had a blast with the folks. The last night they were here we took them camping up at 12 mile where Rob and I go. It was just your typical awesome night:
Jessie's folks came up, too. We had a super fun time with them as well but apparently I didn't have any pictures from their time up here. You can check out her site for pictures though.
Drug them to Denali Park among other places on the tourist circuit. Here's the view from a washout:
We took the road all the way though and saw a ton of animals. Totally got our money's worth. I even saw my old nemesis, the antler beetle.
My first interaction with that bugger was way back when I was a kid. At the end of my first trip down the Yukon with the boy scouts we had just popped out of the shower in Dawson and were just hanging out waiting for everybody to filter through the two or three showers this antler beetle landed on my shoulder. I just caught sight of it out of the corner of my eye and pretty much saw a huge dragon or some other monster. I was totally petrified (Rob or Andrew can vouch) and ran circles trying to get it off. Running in circles didn't work. Can't remember how it all ended but hopefully there was one casualty. Anyway, we've been sworn enemies ever since.
So, back to the trip. The bonus of the denali trip was it was gorgeous and we saw a ton of animals like these bears:
The minus was the bus driver was a birder so we were stopping for every darn hair feathered blue duck or whatever that he could see. Pretty awesome though.
So, had a blast with the folks. The last night they were here we took them camping up at 12 mile where Rob and I go. It was just your typical awesome night:
Jessie's folks came up, too. We had a super fun time with them as well but apparently I didn't have any pictures from their time up here. You can check out her site for pictures though.
