April 25, 2013

Alaska Flashbaska

I didn't have a blog when we first moved to Alaska.
Let's take a trip down memory lane!



September 28(ish), 2009
We arrived. *shudder*

It was a nine-day drive, with most of that being through Canada.
Our U-Haul in British Columbia.  It was freaking cold there.  




In front of the "Welcome to Alaska" sign. We look so happy.  I think it was just relief to be out of Canada.

Alaska..somewhere just over the border

British Columbia 
I can't believe I used to take a billion pictures (with a very bad camera) out the windshield.


Our first rental.  We moved in on October 3, 2009.


...we moved in because I was in love with the kitchen. That's slab granite.  And it was lovely.


Then it started doing this ^ all the time and it was no longer lovely.

My outlook improved on February 24, 2010, when Scott returned from deployment #1.


I feel silly calling it a "deployment".  He just caught the tail end of it (4 months). Most of the unit had been gone for a year, so we got lucky that time.  

But look!  I used to hike.

October 2009




May 2010

May 2010

And I guess I used to go outside at night in the winter too.  December 2009. (The coldest night ever.)

Hey, we used to do touristy things too.

I named him Huggles the Harbor Seal.  And then I bought the stuffed animal version at the gift shop.

Oh, Seward.  You are the bane of my existence.  
9 trips there in 3 1/2 years.  Completely unnecessary.