6/20 Wednesday
Today we went to the University of Alaska Museum of the North, which is on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. It is in an 83,000 square-foot building and boy did they do a good job. It took us a couple hours to go through and well worth the visit. After that we went to the large animal research center, but just looked at the Muskox that were walking around. They had a tour at 2pm for $10.00 ea. but who wants to pay to see caged up Muskox, Reindeer ect. when we can see them out in the wild.
After that it was Walmart shopping, since we are leaving on the 22nd. We heard you had to stock up on things because there’s not really any place in Denali to shop.
When we got back and put everything away, it was like 4pm and Dave had to print out all his reports for the Habitat BOD meeting at 4:30pm, our time. The Family Selection Committee was presenting a family to the BOD for approval. Dave really wanted to be apart of that, since we have all worked real hard on getting this thing going. I stayed and listened to the FSC part of it but then when it was time for the Executive Members part of the meeting, boring, I left to do a load of laundry. The meeting got over close to 6:30pm.
Matt and Connie came over for snacks then dinner around 6:45pm. We sat outside with the sun beating down on us. After dinner we still sat around and talked and as we were there was a big RV that was getting ready to park. We hear the beep beep, as he backs up and then the next thing we hear is him taking out the tree at the back of our RV. Everyone around heard the noise and came running. Everyone is screaming at the guy to quit moving and pull forward. Instead he backs up again. He finally stopped and got out and looked around. Dave, plus others, were telling him what he needed to do to park in that spot. He got back in the RV and drove off, we never saw him again. Of course with everyone out there we all start talking to each other. Two ladies, that were there, are natives of Alaska and one still lived there and the other was visiting. We got to talking, then they came in to look at our rig. We started talking about fishing and the one that still lives here said she would show Matt where a good fishing hole was, so she took off with Matt and Connie. The other one stayed at our place and we just sat and talked for awhile. It was a good evening and we had forgotten all about the 10:30pm baseball game, that was a big deal here. They were even playing a Washington Team. Oh well.
6/21
Chuck and Carol hit the road this a.m. told them we would see them up the road sometime.
I did 2 more loads of laundry this a.m. then Matt came over and we talked about going White Water Rafting together on Sunday. We all got our reservations for 1:30pm on Sunday. Around 11:30 Dave and I got going for a drive to Chena Hot Springs. The Springs were 56 miles away so I had packed a lunch for us. On the drive Dave spotted a moose in the water with it’s head under water. We pulled over and turned around and there was a snow mobile road that you could take that followed the water line. With the jeep being so small we drove on the trail to where the moose was and took pictures. Once back on the road we must had seen 6 more moose. Walking around the Hot Springs the bugs starting biting, but not me, Dave. I had my spray stuff on and not a one landed on me. We had to get out of there before they ate Dave alive. Leaving the Hot Springs we spotted moose on the way back too, of course, some were the ones we saw on the way out. One group of cars were pulled over so we pulled over to see what they were looking at. As soon as we made the u-turn we saw the moose and with the jeep being loud it scared the moose away. I don’t think those people trying to take pictures were very happy with us.
We then stopped at Sam’s Club to pick up a couple more things and fill the jeep up. $3.99 a gallon cheapest we have seen in awhile. Back to the RV to do some playing on the computers.
After dinner I was looking out the window and saw 2 men in a canoe rowing and they were pulling 2 tubes and a raft that had the kids in and on them.
Plan on getting back on the road tomorrow, heading for Denali, will probably stop 1/2 way. We don’t have reservations anywhere until Sunday.
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