Sara, Sitka, SO much fun!

As some of you may have gathered from my facebook postings, the lovely Sara has come to town and we have been all over the place.  She's already learned to trust my judgment when I tell her, "believe me, it'll taste better if we just cook it ourselves."  Tonight, we're doing our very own salmon bake and I've invited about 10 friends.  Definitely a good time.

We spent the last two days in Sitka for Alaska Day, the annual celebration of the day that Russia transferred Alaska to the good ol' USA.  Oh you didn't have that day off of work?  Sad.  We went to a parade, had handfulls of candy thrown at us, went to a pie fair, attended a reenactment done by the military (apparently the ones not in Iraq get to put on 1860s costumes and pretend to be Russian...not a bad deal), and explored the area (Whale park anyone?).  We also checked out some Native American museums and learned a little more about the culture and/or how the Americans were SO much worse than the Russians.  Go US!

We took the ferry both ways, which was an experience in itself.  We mostly camped out on the floor in teh "recliner lounge," but we also had some amazing views of the inner passage on the way.  My camera battery died partway through that trip, but Sara has put up some pics of our adventures in the last few days.  Here's the links, enjoy!

sitka: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.910953704335.2362122.2407552&type=1&l=a44517b87d juneau: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.910949767225.2362120.2407552&type=1&l=dd72b43339