Mako the Moose Master

Yesterday Mako spazzed out over a moose walking up our steps. The tricky part about the situation was that she was outside when the moose came strolling up our steps. Luckily Mako never took up the courage to leave the deck, but by the time I corralled her inside and scrambled to get the camera these were the best pics I could come up with...

Iditarod

Last weekend Sandy and I went up to Willow for the official start of the Iditarod.  Willow is a little under 100 miles north of Anchorage and beginning of the 1,150 mile race.  It had a Alaska tailgate party atmosphere with snow-machines (snowmobiles) and small planes everywhere.

Currently the leader of the race just left Unalakleet and has about 200 miles left to go.  Here is the website that tracks the race, www.iditarod.com.  The guy wearing number 6 and toasting a Red Strip in the picture is from Jamaica, but he scratched from the race in Anvik.

Here's a few pictures from the start of the race, plus some pics from the top of the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, oh and a night shot of Alyeska.  It was pretty neat to see and an event to check off the list.      

Northern Lights

We finally saw the Northern Lights!  They have been out the past two nights, but were much more vivid on the first night.  We drove down to the airport to get away from all our neighbors' lights and watched the show from there.  Luckily the display was around 11pm, so we didn't need to set any alarms.







Here's a link on Northern Lights FAQs.