It was Spring Break for the family I nanny. I decided to take an adventure and booked a flight to Alaska. I have extended family, 2 of my cousins and their families, there.
I arrived late or early on April 20. Since my flight was at 4 when I arrived in Alaska my body felt like 4 am but it was 11 PM With the time change, it can be hard. I was 4 hours time difference.
April 20: Easter egg hunt for the kids and my two cousins and I went ax throwing in high heels. I didn't bring high heels but still threw an ax. We also went out to dinner that night at this place called The Rustic Goat. I got mac and cheese with bacon.
April 21: Easter. I went to church. After church, we had a nice Easter dinner and played with family. With the weather, which can be weird this time of year, I was lucky it was sunny today so we played outside.
April 22: I went to the gym with my cousin and afterward just hung out and talked all day. It was nice catching up with them. I haven't seen my cousins in 5 years due to our life situations. That night we went on this short hike and the view was amazing.
April 23: Drove up to Talkeetna, Alaska and I saw Mt Denali. The clouds were covering it up, so that made it difficult to see. We did some sightseeing and went souvenir shopping. I got a T-Shirt and a keychain. I started colecting key chain from everywhere I've been. That night I went to this amazing restaurant called the Moose's Tooth. I had this pizza with reindeer sausage on it. It was delicious.
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| Mt Denali in the background |
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| Mooses Tooth Pizza |
April 24: I went on this amazing hike to Thunderbird Falls. It was so beautiful. That night, with my cousins, we went to the Temple in Anchorage. It was a small temple but still beautiful. After the temple, we drove to the top of Anchorage where we had a beautiful sunset with Mt Denali in the background. It was amazing. Driving home I saw my first wild moose.
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| Thunderbird Falls |
April 25: We went to Girdwood. While driving to Girdwood we passed this spot where Beluga whales can be seen at certain times of the year. After Girdwood, we drove up to see glaciers at Glaciers National Park. We saw one floating in the water, which was cool. According to Wikipedia, "A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries." Then we went to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. "The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center is a sanctuary dedicated to preserving Alaska's wildlife through conservation, education, research, and quality animal care" (https://www.alaskawildlife.org/). We saw bears, elk, porcupine, wolves, reindeer, moose, bison, caribou, deer, fox, bald eagle, and coyote.
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| Can see Whales from here during some time of the year |
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| Glacier |
April 26: Went out to brunch and I got eggs with reindeer sausage. It tastes like regular sausage to me. That day they drove me to the airport. I made it from Anchorage to Seattle. I could see the top of the Glacier from the plane, which was amazing. They overbooked the plane and if you volunteered to say behind you could get a voucher, so I did. They could have put me in a hotel but I decided to sleep at the airport since my flight was early and they gave me another voucher, for the hotel. Sleeping at the airport was hard. I did find a quiet place to sleep but still, it was hard.
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| Glacier from my plane |
April 27: Took an early morning flight back to JFK and I had to go find my luggage since it came earlier with another flight.
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| Catching up on some ZZZZ |
