Today Tricia and I

got up early and caught a flight to Anchorage..........for lunch at Red Robins!! Now, now ladies, it really is no different than you driving an hour to say Seattle, or maybe St. Louis, or even San Francisco to have lunch with one of your friends. We just flew. We were back in Kotzebue by seven P.M.

We also drove by the home Stan and I owned when we lived in Anchorage, found the grade school the kids went to and drove all over Anchorage. My, how a city changes in 27 years. I recognized so many street names, but little of what was there. Occasionally I would see something I remembered from when we lived in Anchorage.

We also went to Costco and bought four pizzas and beer because Dave is having Sports afternoon at his house on Sunday. Kotzebue is a damp town, which means there is no alcohol sold here, but you can bring in a limited amount for personal consumption.

Yesterday, we went for a picnic on the beach.

This is an amazing picture I took of Kotzebue Sound. It is hard to tell where the water ends and the sky begins.

Tricia's friend Kathy built a raging hot fire for us, using pallets from the store.

While we waited for the fire to burn down, Ben and his friends were entertaining themselves with rocks. You know the boy thing with rocks and water.


Finally the fire burned down enough for us to roast our hot dogs. It was still very hot, I was trying to avoid the heat, yet get my hot dog cooked.

After the hot dogs, there were s'mores.




BUT THE VERY BEST THING ABOUT OUR DAY WAS.....................

My son in law David had to opportunity to baptize my grandson Ben during the Church Service!!