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May 26, 2005 - Sunrise 4:43am - Sunset 11:09pm - Actual Dark Hours 12:45am-3:30am Today is our third anniversery, and we celebrated last weekend by going to Seward for the weekend. I can't tell you how beautiful this state is. Some of you asked me to see more pictures of the landscape up here, and I will not disappoint.
Highlights Before we get to Seward, lets hit the highlights of the last couple of weeks. First, I completed my combatives course and tied for third place in the honor graduate tournament. My body hurt for the next week.
Then, I took a week long combat first aid course and learned to give IV's and shove tubes up peoples noses. The interesting part about that is we practiced on each other. I got three IV's and one "nose hose." (The "nose hose" is 6 inches long and about as big around as your pinky - Fun!) Once I forgot to take the constrictor band off my "patient" before I removed the IV needle and LOTS of blood squirted everywhere. Oops! It was a cool class.
Seward, AK Then, as I said before, we went to Seward last
weekend. Seward is a tiny little town on the Kenai Penninsula that is nestled between mountains and the sea. It's an outdoor Mecca around here. We checked out the Sea Life Center and saw some cool animals and strolled around town mostly. The food was great. I ate a Caribou Burger, and we tried our hands at cooking King Crab Legs. Those things are HUGE. Their legs are up to two feet long, and you can get chunks of crab meat out of them that are bigger around than your thumb. Yum!
Jumpin Junipers - Jaeden Walks!!!
I've have yet to see it, but Laura assures me it is so. Jaeden took two steps yesterday while Laura was on the phone with her sister and again while Laura was giving J.J. a bath. This is very exciting and quite an anniversery present. She is also repeating words after us sometimes. My favorite, "Nite, Nite, Da-da!"
Alaskan Wedding AK has this weird law that says that in certain circumstances (like being active military) you can have a friend officiate your wedding ceremony. I found out about this because my buddy, Cornwell, got his friend, Noodle, to
officiate his wedding a few weeks ago. Weird, I know!!! But, Vela, the guy I spent all week sticking with tubes and needles, asked me to officiate his wedding today. I had the chance to talk to him a little last week about how much God loves him and wants a relationship with us and how rather than burdening us with a bunch or rules he wants to free us from guilt and condemnation. Hopefully, I'll get to pass on some of the wisdom Josh Hackworth passed on to us when he married Laura and me. Should be an interesting day. Stay turned for more details.
Interesting Alaska Fact #4: The state of Rhode Island could fit into Alaska 425 times, while Fairfax County has nearly twice as many people as Alaska. So, if you divided Alaska up evenly, every Alaskan would get about 650 acres of land.
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Alaska is so beautiful and so big. We are glad that you had the opportunity to go to Seward - one of our favorite places in Alaska. Outside of Anchorage is a little town called "Eklutna" which is a must to visit. It shows how the Russian missionaries changed some of the native ways for the Athabascan. What was great was seeing the "Spirit Houses" that were over their graves.If you go back to The Kenai Peninsula, take the boat tour of the fjords - lots of wildlife viewing. BTW, Jeff and friends are flying to Anchorage on the 25th of June for a few weeks. Let's hope you are lucky and fon't find them on your doorstep :D - Jane Schwalm