Alaska Tuesday

Tuesday already!  Time flies when you're having fun!

Yesterday, after that long day on the water, we decided to skip eating out and just do the peanut-butter bagel & apples and cheese thing. We had time to sit around and talk and chill.  After dark, Amy went up and spent about an hour in the hot tub (outside, surrounded by tall fir trees and mounds of snow). She said it was really quiet.

 This morning we ate another great breakfast with Sheila and Al, played their piano and sang a little, then left before 10:00.  We checked out the Resurrection Cafe (a converted church), where Amy bought a print by Rockwell Kent.  We went to the library for a while, and while I finished downloading my flight simulator, Amy walked around.

Lunch was fresh fish sandwich and barley beef soup. 

The Seward Sea Life Center is a real jewel.  It's a research facility and museum that was set up by the money collected after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and it's a beautiful place.  It's not crowded with stuff, and the displays all make sense.  The first amazement was a tank of jellyfish that had to be just about the most beautiful creatures you could imagine, floating and swirling thru the water.  The best "displays" are the two-story tanks of seals, ducks, and sea-birds.  You could sit all day watching them swim, which you can do from below or above, indoors or out. There were very few people there, so we had the museum staff pretty much to ourselves, and the interpreters went out of their way to teach us what we were really looking at.  There were hands-on tanks of starfish and sea anemones, who didn't mind being touched ("gently, with two fingers"), and we got to watch a crab being fed to an octopus.  

The drive back to Anchorage was just great for listening to music and watching the scenery.  It doesn't get any better. Supper was noodles & asparagus & mushrooms, and then we went to Flattop to watch the sun go down.  We went after that to two places Amy likes to hang out:  hot chocolate & chai at the TapRoot Cafe, and then hung out at Open Mike at the Golden Lion.  I met Justin, Erin, Lisa, Ian, Gary, Scott and Angela.  Amy talked to everybody, and arranged a pot-luck supper at her house on Friday. It sounds like it will be a full house.

Tomorrow I get to meet Alex.

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