When I was a kid, my sister Claudia got to be in a wedding as the flower girl. I was so jealous. She was maybe four or five years old and got to wear a special dress and looked like a little angel. I was maybe seven or eight and looked pretty much like an ordinary kid in nice clothes that I already owned. I knew at my wedding that I wouldn't single ( Read more... )

At some point in the middle of the night on Friday, the wind started to pick up. It woke me at least once, and I started to worry a little more about the weather ( Read more... )

Tuesday, we slept until we woke up. And that was awesome. I took Liv back over to Snow City Cafe for breakfast, and then we wandered some more stopping at a few galleries and crafty places. I bought myself a puffin tee shirt, hand screened by a local artist, at one of these shops. I adore it. I looked again at the musk oxen knitcraft, but I ( Read more... )

Before we left, we made arrangements to go on a day cruise near Kenai National Park, leaving out of Seward. We thought that taking the train would be the more scenic way of getting there, and because it was on the Fourth of July, we made sure to make the reservations well in advance. On Saturday, we stopped in the tour office in Anchorage to find ( Read more... )

Sunday was the day of the wedding, and Liv had to join the wedding party early, leaving me to my own devices. I actually had a great day, walking from one end of downtown Anchorage (for brunch at Snow City Cafe, which was really, really good) to the other (for a trip to the museum). I tried reindeer sausage for the first time, and found it quite ( Read more... )

Note: This was one long post. However, I guess the DNS attack went after LJ's ability to process lots of data, so it's been broken up into four posts. It is all one narrative. I apologize for having to break it up like this, though ( Read more... )

It's been a strange, weird emotionally wrecking year ( Read more... )

"No, Chame. We musn't ( Read more... )

My sister Olivia was one of 160 people booked on a plane with 130 seats yesterday. She knew something was awry when she checked in online and Continental didn't tell her which seat was hers. She got to the airport at some ungodly hour to discover she had no seat on the plane. Rumors started that there were no flights for a few days at least. ( Read more... )

I was just telling my sister this ( Read more... )