Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Day 49, Sun, Jul 22, 2007, Anchorage, AK

Today was a great day except that we woke up to rain, had rain all day, and went to bed with rain, but it was mostly a light rain all day, so not entirely bad.

The great part of the day was meeting up with our friend Rosemary at the Millennium Hotel (Iditarod’s race headquarters every March) and had a very nice lunch and catching up. Then Rosemary took us downtown and we went to a great place (only a couple years old) called Bear and Raven Adventure Theater. It started out with a very nice high definition movie about Alaska, complete with a snowstorm blown on the audience.

From there we were able to board a balloon with a screen in the bottom of it making it appear we were flying over different things, complete with the motion of the balloon. Then we went salmon fishing by sitting in the back of a boat with a fishing rod and line hooked to a TV screen showing the fish we were catching. The line reacted with the fish, making it seem so real. Then we were able to stand on a sled runner with a dog team projected on a big screen making it seem we were being pulled by the sled dog team, again complete with sled motion to feel so real. It was all really neat. We’ll have pictures of all this up soon.

Then Rosemary took us to Cold Stone Creamery for some really great ice cream, then a nice tour of Anchorage. A great afternoon we had.

Also today we finally saw moose in person. As we were leaving the base, we saw a moose really close to the road, and again when we came back onto the base, we saw another moose quite close to the road about a quarter mile from where we saw the other one earlier.

The high temp today was 64 and the low was 54 degrees.

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