Alyeska, Alaska

Some photos from our trip today.  We ate breakfast at The Bake Shop, and drove up the mountain passing the Iditarod trail pass-thru, and observed the ski lift that goes up the very, very tall mountainside.  We are discussing spending a skiing weekend here before March.

Ice Sculptures & Volcanoes

It's been a while since I've posted, but that doesn't mean we haven't been exploring Alaska and enjoying every minute of it.

Did you know Alaska has active volcanoes?  I didn't know that until right before moving here.  Tom has done lots of research on it and we've taken some pics of some of the Volcanoes around us. 

Check out these ice sculptures that are displayed downtown in Town Square.  Aren't they cool?  Get it?  Cool?  hahahahahaha

Enjoy the pictures!  Hugs!

We found this view from a place in Anchorage called Bear Valley. That's Anchorage in the bottom left of the photo.

From left to right: smooth mountain is Mount Spurr, the jagged one right beside it is Mount Torbert and the one on the right is Hayes Volcano. All of them are around 10,000' elevation and about 80 miles away.

Daily Picture

Here was Tom's view driving back to work after lunch today.  Awesome.

Saturday Pictures

We didn't make it to the museum yesterday.  It was so COLD outside.  I could hardly stand it!  We went to Office Depot (got me some binding rings to craft with making mini albums) and the library. 

I took lots of pictures outside of the beautiful scenery.  Here they are:

This is a moose laying down behind the library parking lot.  He has some snow on his face and he is chewing on something.  Tom took the picture with my iPhone and he looks so far away, but he really was very close.

 

Look at this car!  We thought that was so funny.  I was wondering how long he must have been parked there to build up that snow on top, but Tom said, no he drove here like that.  What's really funny, when we got back home, we saw it in our parking lot.  LOL  So, I guess he really was driving around like that.

 

 

Here's a snow pile on one side of the parking lot.

 

I thought this was an awesome sight.  Tom and I couldn't figure out why the sun ray is going up. This was taken about 3:00 in afternoon.  It was looking like sunset.

Here's another snow pile.  That's what they do here.  They bulldoze the snow into one big pile when clearing parking lots.

I just thought this tree was beautiful.

Snowy tree lined street on the way to Office Depot.

And isn't this cool?  You can see the icicles forming on Tom's truck.  He also has icicles hanging under the bumper and wheel wells.  (Is wheel wells right?... You probably know what I mean.)

Brrrr

Today it's getting all the way up to 1!  Wooo-Whooo!  It's -2 right now.  Day 5 of the snow coming down.

The pictures above and below were taken at 9:25 this morning.  Sunrise isn't until 10:12 today and sunset today is at 3:41 this afternoon.

 

 

Tomorrow we are planning on going to the museum!  They have dolls and toys displays right now with carousel horses.... you know Bonnie is going to LOVE the carousel horses!!

Jingle Bells,

Janis

December Snow!

We are enjoying Alaska very much.  This is the 3rd day in a row that is has been snowing and snowing and snowing.  We are suppose to get 7 more inches by 4 o'clock this afternoon.  It's beautiful. 

This was Tom's view driving to work this morning.

 It's snowing so heavily today that it almost looks foggy outside because of the dense snow coming down.  We don't get much daylight these days.Sunrise is at 10:10 today and sunset is at 3:41 this afternoon.  When the air is filled with clouds and snow this heavy, it really doesn't get too bright outside.  It's like dusk all day long.

I posted on Facebook that if I were to lay down and make a snow angel now, I'd probably disappear for days.  My sister commented, "I'd like to see that! LOL" .  hahahahahaha

Here are 2 pictures Tom took after only being at work a few hours this morning.

Jingle Bells,

Janis

Still Loving The Snow!

It's snowed.  And then it's snowed.  It's still snowing.

I love it!

I haven't driven in it yet.  And may not.  Tom doesn't want me to drive in it.  I have no real desire to, so maybe I won't drive again until April?

I have spent many, many moments just sitting in the chair with a book and spending more time looking out the window than actually reading.

Not only is the snow mesmerizing to watch, but the people outside in it are a hoot!

The walkers, the walkers with dogs being dragged across the ice, the cars that can't start at the stop lights and spin, the other cars that act like there's no snow or ice on the roads and keep on going as if it's normal, the snow plows you see on the roads and the sidewalks...  It's all very entertaining.

This was Tom's view driving home from work yesterday at 4:00 pm.