Time in AK always goes quick, even though the days are longer than anywhere else. We've had a blast up here. Illness kept the activity level lower than we had anticipated, but we still got in a lot of action. Danielle declared our dipnetting on the Kenai to be the best fishing (and most fun) of her entire life- in a couple short minutes she raked in a whole lot of Reds with her brother Jake. Brady was dubbed the Fish Slayer after leading the ranks in fish kills. Life is good when you can have 78 fish to your name in two tides of dipnetting. All in all the crew brought in about 300 fish. The weather was overcast and slightly rainy- perfect weather to float neck deep in the water for 7 hours at a time, watch the seals offshore, and executing fish by punching them in the head. We're just sad we don't have enough room to bring down all we'd like.
Saturday we hiked the Winner Creek trail in Girdwood (behind the Alyeska ski resort) up to a hand tram that crosses a gorge and over the river. On the way back Liam got a glimpse of his first bear. We happened upon a black bear who was rummaging for food in the undergrowth about 10 meters off the trail. Don't worry- no casualties, and the only one who needed their pants changed afterwards was Liam.
Also on our Did-It list was: attending Jake's soccer games, our tradition of the-best-calamari-ever at Orso's, trail running, an all day fish processing ceremony, chillin' with the fam, late night visits, planning our next trip up here, and last but not least, closing on our home in Michigan (we are now the official owners). We've loved our time up in Dani's homeland, and we're both sad to leave. Liam can now rightfully claim some of his Alaskan heritage.
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