Well, it's August 1st and we have been doing all kinds of new activities and I haven't stopped to talk about any of them at all!
My daughter Samantha came up for 3 weeks and at the same time we had my parents come and visit, so we had a house full of people. Our house has only about 800 sq. feet of living space upstairs, so it's really more of a cabin than a motel.
While our family was here, we decided to really start exploring Alaska, starting with Fairbanks. We visited Chena Hot Springs first. It was really buggy there, but the water was great and the kids had a ball. How neat is it to be soaking in the springs while a moose keeps watch over you. We promised my mom some moose dring the visit and we got our fill the first day!
Over the next few weeks we frequented Alaskaland, ate at the Chena Pump House Father's day buffet, checked out the Santa Claus house and the Knotty Shoppe, went to the Botanical gardens and Arctic Museum, too. Mom and Dad also got a chance to visit the Eldorado Gold Mine with Dominik where they panned for gold. On their last night here they went down the Chena River on the Riverboat Discovery tour. I would say they had a busy trip. We spent most of the evenings playing cards in our enclosed porch in the natural light until the wee hours of the night.
One of mom's highlights was taking a picture of her three grandkids at 12:15 am in the back yard...and of course no flash was necessary!
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