KADE has graduated ..well done!

so proud and blessed! Kade graduated fro High school and I got to spend the week with all the usually end of the year activited for school

Will and Kay and Amalia Reinat and ME and the rest of the Mercaods minus Victoria who is in School at BYU I

HAppy BRos

It was hard to spot Kade as he is hidden among the blue hats of graduated

more family photos

An example of his art which made it a little easier to spot him

I also got to help at Vals pre school  and enjoy the kids and the teachers

ME and Erik always love a little competition with games and geography

ME and Kade .. I gifted another string instrument to his collection

the day of his grad party

Jason messing up my beautiful veggies, no, wait, he is eating chips

Many neighbors and friends and fellow students came

Kde and his buddies

my last day. feeling the love and is in the home and family

 

Land and Sea-Alaska and Yukon

Most spirirtual sight- Denali

best hiking Dawson City in Yukon, not crowded- town really not fixed up that much since gold ruch days when it was the Paris of the North with gambling and can can girls

start of the cruise, Terry and Doug were our traveling buddies

loved the shows especially visiting with the dancers and finding out their dancing back grounds and they were very talented well trained dancers, ALot of special effects with lights

fashion show as it really only rained this hard once!

Ketchican is famous for totem poles

after that we went to Juneau the state captial and hiked up the water fall

on the hike we got to see St Nikolas Russian chrch

the hike was wonderful--- as our next stop, skagway was crowded , again we hiked, this time along the rail our last cruise time was in GLacier bay national park and college fjord, interesting to learn about glaciers but photos dont do it justice

 

Now we are on lnd for the rest of the 18 days minus a week on the ship

on here is Jim looking at the glaciers, this is oiut of place!1

and our last night on ship

headed to the train to Anchorage , after a 2 1-2vhr train ride we hopped an uber and made it the church to find the ward that our neighbors went to !!  and the spirit was great!

we rented bikes the next day and went along the water near the airport and hiked to get our food as we were now having the do our own food most of the time

terry and Doug used the meal plan that would have cost us $50 oer meal per person

here was our 5 1/2 hour train ride to Denali

LOVING the hiking together, we did Horse shoe trail and each day hiked up from our rooms! 10 miles a few days, 3 days in Denali including a 5 1/2 hr tour around the park. Loved seeing the dog sled training

we saw many many fun animals

after Denali we went by bus with our LDS tour guide Ian and stayed along the Chena river which we walked along to get our food. The girl at the front desk noticed my CTR ring, Again a reminder of the world wide church which we love!

we had manty forms of  transportation, curise, train, small plane, river boat, bus, and uber

 part of our Fairbanks travels included ,one day  on a Riverboat tour and saw native living and did a Gold dredge finding $40 worth of gold which we put in earrings.  Jim loved the Alaksa pipeline engineering. Jim has many photos of that!!

Dawson CIty, Paris of the North, turns out to be a favorite, our guide  kept talking abpiut gambling and cancan girls but we hked and dicovered  an old gold mining town still surviving with the best ygurt ever

more tiny planes in the Yukon

my Dad, nick name MOOSE

found spinach which I ate right out of the bag nd many many tiny carrots

Dawson city Yukon hotel, reminded me of Denmark. our smaller group was over 30 which was mostly Austrailians, a few Americans. As we were leaving I met a couple from Poland. She did not speak English, He did AND our family history opportunity to share the gospel and our love of FH happened as we stopped along the way to Emeralde lake and Carcross and wild adventure land. This was on our way to Whitehorse Yukon at the Sternwheeler (another river hike ). There we found the Marche ! veagetables and fruit from all around the world and Canadas super costgo with hummus and cottage cheese which exceded America

another part of Dawson which we also loved

My parting memory, of hiking  with my sister and sharing our love of  family, the Gospel of Jesu Chirst and missionary. ANd my love of Jim and his adaptable team player. Thiis trip was restorative and more memorable than I have included. Please forgive typos and out of order thoughts. BUT the love of Nature and travel and FAMILY and JIM are strong