On Thursday the weather turned on us, so we decided not to go to Valdez..we stayed at Copper Center instead. Still a long drive, but from there it was still over 100 miles to Valdez (you had to cross the Glenn Highway so you could get to the Richardson Highway, where Valdez is). It was cool seeing Matanuska Glacier again. The place we stayed at was ( Read more... )

Yesterday the flightseeing tour took us up close and personal to Mt. Iliamna..it was so cool seeing all the volcanoes I've heard about (Redoubt, Augustine, etc). It was so clear you could see Kodiak Island, 100 miles away!! Wow. Iliamna is a dormant volcano, but you could still see steam coming out of different places..cool! It was definitely ( Read more... )

Yesterday when we left Denali there was lots of new snow..ugh. When we crossed to the other side of the Alaska Range it cleared up..it was sooo nice to see the sun again!! We got some good views of Mt. McKinley Denali (!!) before it clouded up. We drove around Turnagain Arm just as the bore tide was coming in! It was amusing cause we found a ( Read more... )

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That's..creepy O_o

( Day 04 - A song that calms you down )

Abby is sooo happy to be back home haha..she doesn't want to be too far away from me. When I'm in bed she's all over me and just purring like crazy hehe. She was laying on my pillow above my head last night. Aww she loves me :D ( Read more... )

Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano is rumbling again.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory says a series of small earthquakes began occurring around the summit of the volcano Sunday and continued Monday. As a result, scientists have upgraded the volcano's alert status.Ooh..maybe it'll erupt again! Sweeeeet ( Read more... )

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Today is apparently a holiday I'd never heard of till a few days ago..it's Seward's Day. I guess it commemorates when Seward bought Alaska from Russia..nice haha ( Read more... )

You check for updates every fifteen minutes...including at least twice right before you go out the door to work at five in the morning. (At times haha..if I'm bored or it's erupting :P ( Read more... )

Redoubt erupted again this morning..the ash cloud went up to around 65,000 feet! Paulette and I were looking at the volcano information for like 15 minutes or so at work haha (mom had texted me the volcano had erupted and I told her ( Read more... )