The other pictures here are of Loon Lake where we are staying, the humpback mama whale, three cousins getting cleaned up, and an eagle swooping in for a kill. During the five days we've been en route to or in Alaska I've come up with a number of potential blog titles, including "What Were We Thinking?" Getting to the Kenai Peninsula seems easy enough of paper, but actually converging nine people from three different states and ranging in age from 22 months to 69 yrs old proved challenging to say the least. Alaska, though, is spectacular and worth it. In spite of my somewhat frazzled and chaotic status as a mom of two young children, I knew that my spirit would love to snuggle up to the big, wild and free Alaskan landscape. I am sitting on the couch typing on a computer, but before me is a shimmering lake surrounded by boggy wetlands and big blue sky with a back drop of craggy, snowy peaks. We have seen humpback whales, sea lions, moose, puffins, and a young eagle swooping in to nab a duckling for breakfast. As we arrived at our "cabin," we were greeted by mosquitoes the size of hummingbirds. This place is not kidding around. I can't imagine that if you are born and raised in Alaska that you could ever be happy anywhere else for long. The moose:person ratio would be all wrong...
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