Onward To Idaho.

hello again!

From Whitehorse we took a bit and drove to Laird hot springs and then stopped there for a few hours. And from there we drove to Ft Nelson for a few days. While there I managed to lose the the side piece of my glasses at a playground :-(. After Ft Nelson we took two days and drove all the way to Vancouver. we stayed near Vancouver for the next three days.

While there we drove in to one of the parks where there was a "miracle tree". The miracle tree is a tree that was blown over in a windstorm a few years ago, and had nearly all its roots uprooted. But, there is still green and growing leaves on the ends of numbers of the branches! Also during that day I learned how to use the chopsticks! From Vancouver we left Canada and drove to Mount Rainer national park for the next day.

While we were near Mount Rainer we went hiking through the Grove of the Patriarchs where there were trees that had been close to 500 years old when Columbus landed in America! After Mount Rainer we drove to Boise,Idaho and spent two days there. We visited moms cousin Ted and got to go tubing down the river with him. Unfortunately, me and dad took a spill at the top of one of the mini falls along the way. after Boise we left and went down to Buhl in the Magic Valley near Twin Springs to visit Nettie's friend's family for the next few days. While we were there I finally got to jump on a trampoline again, and I learned how to make pottery on a potters wheel!!

next, On To Ohio!!

alaska finishing basic blog

Hi all, I know that I haven't posted a blog in close to two months, so I'm going to get you up to speed on what we did in Alaska but not all the way home. I'll talk about that in the next blog which should be within a few days.
After getting my new walking stick we drove back up to Palmer and stayed for a few days. During that time mom left for the Idita-camp. The Idita-camp is a week long camp for teachers that's all about the Iditarod. Well mom was gone me, Nettie, Dad, and Anna drove back to Nilnilchik on the Kenai peninsula to go clamming. The total number of clams that we caught was 40 clams. From there we drove back up past Anchorage to a dog farm near Willow where mom was staying.
After leaving the dog farm two days later we drove about half-way to Fairbanks and stopped near Denali National Park. While we were there we got to see the top of Mt. McKinley for about fifteen minutes after waiting for an hour and a half. from Denali we worked our way up to Fairbanks after passing through Nenana and being hit by ash from wildfires. W stayed in Fairbanks for close to a week. Really we stayed in a little town called north pole ("it's where Santa spends his summers") that's about 15 miles from downtown. while in fairbanks we went to Pioneer park and a couple of other places as well. when we left we took the 900 and some mile drive to Whitehorse, Yucon, Canada all in one go.


to be continued...in my next blog.