ALASKA

Ali's Birthday

2008-08-09T22:05:00.000-07:00

It was Ali's birthday yesterday! It was really fun. We first sent her on a scavenger hunt all around town. That night we went to Starfire for dinner. Then AMG (Alaska Mountain guides) were having a party because it was 8-8-8. It was pretty fun! Walking to dinner
All of us roommates
Starfire. Thai food

8-8-8 party
We drink diet coke, instead of beer
Wood for bon fire

Katelin's Visit

2008-08-08T14:39:00.000-07:00

Katelin came to visit me from July 29-August 5. It was soooo much fun! Here are some of the activities we got to do. More pictures will come. Actually I probably won't put them up until I get home, because our internet is too slow and it takes forever! Anyways it was awesome, but her visit was too short, but I love her because she was the ONLY one to come visit me.. I hate all you others. jk...... p.s. I come home in less than 2 weeks. I am not excited! Skagway from the train
Tain ride

normally=$100 each

me and katelin=$25

Obviously it says keep off
Stupid tourist who kept standing on it... even after I told her it said to keep off, and even after the people working on the train put a chain up and told her to stop. She just moved the chain.
Tunnel

Helicopter flight up to the glacier to go dogsledding

normally=$600 each

me and katelin=FREE

Riding in the snow cat to dog sled camp

Dogsledding

You can see the camp from up on the hill

Only some of the dogs
Tour of yukon
normally=$450
me and katelin=Free

Tourmented Valley
Dogsledding in Dyea
normally=$350 each
me and katelin=Free

Tourists

2008-08-05T15:14:00.000-07:00

Tourists are so stupid... so i'm making a list of every stupid thing I hear.

More will be added.

1. They step off the boat and ask what sea level they are at?

we respond... how tall are you? or hmm well the water is right underneath the dock so i say about 2 feet.

2. Where is my boat?

Its the big white thing you can see from anywhere in town?

3. If I get just the pendent and not the chain is it cheaper?

Do you walk into walmart and ask... if i only take the banana and not the banana peel is it cheaper?

4.Since I'm on the cruise ship do I get a discount?

Look around. There are about 10,000 people walking around that are on cruise ships. (the only people that shop at our store are from the cruise ship)

July 24

2008-07-26T00:04:00.000-07:00

Since a good portion of the people that come up to work for the summer are from Utah, are ward had a little pioneer day party. We also celebrated it at work and anybody that wanted a free color change ring had to tell us which state's birthday it was. It was pretty interesting. Anyways, be proud! My roommates and I went to the ward activity.

Driving to the ball park in Seth's car

Egg run

peace

we meant 3 legged race haha

driving home... me and allyssa got bored

great quote on Seth's wall

chilling in Seth and KC's room listening to Nick play.... he's amazing

apparently it was drag queen night at the red onion...

Adam showed up at our house dressed like this

he even shaved is legs

Deep Sea Fishing

2008-07-21T01:12:00.000-07:00

So today we went fishing with our crazy neighbor who owns the Back Alley Rock Shop in his little boat. Him and his girlfriend are about 50 and are so so funny. So at 6am we went out on the ocean. We didnt catch anything for the first 4 hours and I took a nice 45 min nap sitting up. Then we caught a huge salmon, but when we tried to reel it in... it sadly got away. 2 min later we caught a little dolly varden, or whatever its called. He's just a little guy. We gutted him and he is sitting in our fridge. We are going to cook him tomorrow night. yum yum... GROSS!

Mika

2008-07-20T23:14:00.000-07:00

So pretty much our landlord stopped by our store and chewed us out for having a dog, even though it was "staying at the AMG house." We had to give Mika away to these other people that have 7 pugs. It was really sad, but it will probably work out better anyways. She sometimes pooped and peed. We will still get to play with her whenever, but we will miss her!

Bored in Skagway

2008-07-19T10:33:00.000-07:00

Del Sol Girls

2008-07-14T23:03:00.000-07:00

We had to take pictures a while ago of all of us interns for Corporate.

Top: Becca, Ali, Me, Allyssa

Bottom: Jessica, Jenna

For some reason they always want to hold me...

Shopping

2008-07-14T22:43:00.000-07:00

Today we went shopping around town, since none of us had to work. It was pretty fun! I don't know why we go, since there are only so many stores and they have the same stuff every time, but it was fun!

Harrison Ford

2008-07-12T13:50:00.000-07:00

Guess who just so happened to be in town the last couple days?

Harrison Ford and his family. He is SOO hot!

Hello Canada

2008-07-12T11:17:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, July 5th we went to a bon fire out at the point. Our friend Seth mentioned that he was going to go fishing the next day in Canada, so we basically invited ourselves. So on Sunday, I got off work and met them. We all piled into the car and headed fishing.

Sunday night-ali carving my stick for me

all just sitting around

kc picked all off us flowers

We stole this canoe and took it for a ride
best friends

looking to see where to rappel off of

KC, Becca, Me, Ali, and Seth

Alaska's own sand dunes

July 4th

2008-07-12T10:16:00.001-07:00

The big dance and fireworks for the 4th are held on July 3rd here in Skagway. But that doesn't mean there wasn't tons of stuff to do still on the 4th. We first ran the 5k. There were only like maybe 15 people running in the race. hahaha. I ran the first mile pretty fast, but Allyssa and I just goofed off the rest of the time. It was raining really hard. Jenna took pictures of us, but I have't gotten them back. Im not sure I even want to see them, because it was so early and we were all sweaty. haha. Afterwards we went home and showered and headed down to town.
First there was a little kid parade. Cute little boy huh. Then the main parade. Guess who came? That's right... the PRESIDENT! haha
This was my favorite float.

Right after the parade, we joined everyone for our egg toss. It was very official, because we were trying to break the Guiness Book of World Records. To break it, we had to have 338 people. We had 1,100 people. And guess who was the very first people? Me and Allyssa. hahaha. It was crazy!
Our lucky egg didn't turn out so lucky.
This was just all the people we could see, but the line (2 people facing eachother) went on for 7 blocks.

Ali, Allyssa, Me, and Hunter
Ducky Derbie
Waiting for the ducks to come to see if we won $1000
Go ducky go!
We figure that was our duck
Catching them all

He wanted to catch some too
Our sweet ducky derbie shirts

We each got to take home a duck

Tyler's dog clifford likes to play with mika

I don't think she likes it too much.

3rd of July

2008-07-12T09:20:00.000-07:00

All del sol girls at dinner
Northern Lights Me and Allyssa

At the dance on Broadway

Jake in the penguin costume. He says its gets him girls. This lady was crazy
Hunter's ripped jeans

On the pier watching fireworks

It was WAY fun! Then we went home way late and ate cake...

so we'd be ready for our marathon in the morning.

I miss..

2008-06-29T23:57:00.000-07:00

Today has been a rough day. I really miss everyone. I wasn't able to go to bed until 6:30 AM, but I was happy I didn't work today. Instead, I got up and did laundry. I'm not sure why I'm in a really depressing mood. I miss Devin and he is going to camp in a couple days so I won't be able to talk to him for almost a month. I miss Katelin. A lot! I thought about her all day today. She use to always make me laugh. We always did the stupidest things so I was never bored. A lot of sad, bad, dumb, and heart-breaking things have happened this week. I really wish I could come home. I would be home in two seconds if I could. I miss my family. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

SLOW

2008-06-29T05:28:00.000-07:00

Yesterday it was extremely slow.. We had hardly anyone come into the store. It was really windy outside, so people don't like to get off their lazy butts and get off the cruise ships. If I paid a lot of money to come to Alaska, there would be no stopping me from getting off.

Here is what the store looked like most of the day.

So Me and Allyssa got food.

We like to share the chicken caesar wrap and orange creamsicle from Glacier Espresso. MMMMM

More Pictures with A.I.E. Night

2008-06-29T04:41:00.001-07:00

Here are some more pictures from tonight. They're in some random order.

A.I.E. Friends

2008-06-29T01:49:00.000-07:00

Tonight was very strange.....

Just from this picture, you can tell what a weird night it was
I showed everyone my cool socks with pom poms. I found a hole in the toe tonight :(
We all went to dinner at fish co. I got noah to pay for everyone.
We are cool... obviously
Best advice EVERI had to stop along the way. Fish co. didnt sit with me well. I couldn't make it home. Its a good thing there is a toilet in this pavilion.I didn't plan posing like this.We were scared for our lives in this cave... actually the kid above us said he was going to pee. She loves me. Sometimes I wonder if Im too much for her to handle.

Spot Light

Ali is so good at taking pictures. I actually almost fell in.

It was so windy... Its a good thing I got a picture of my best ASSet.

The Friend-ship bracelet.

Gross! Noah and trendy Rendy

We had this contest to see who could stand the longest on one foot.

Ty Mckinsie

2008-06-28T17:11:00.000-07:00

I have known Ty Mckinsie for a long time. He was counsins with my neighbor Kody and when the Curtis family moved.. He and his parents moved in their house for a while until they sold it. He was an exceptional kid. Those of you, who never knew him, sure missed out. I'm not sure why we started hanging out.. him being 3 years younger, but my sister, Ty, Travis (his best friend), and I use to hang out there for a while. He was always funny and it was enjoyable to hang out with him. One time we all decided to sneak out and go toilet papering. Around 2 in the morning a deer ran out in front of my car and I barely missed it. I can still remember exactly how high him and Travis screamed. It sounded like two little girls. Me and my sister laughed for what seemed like hours, because it was so funny. When we were toilet papering I was so tired, Ty gave me a piggy-back ride. He was always such a sweet kid. I can still remember him smiling everyday when I would stop and give him a ride home from school, after picking my sister up. On Wednessday, June 25 Ty Mckinsie pulled the trigger and ended his life. I'm sure nobody knows the pain that he must have felt. I hadn't talked to him for atleast a year, but I will for sure miss him and I am very sad I can't attend the funeral service. Ty, you have impacted my life for the better. You don't know how great of an example you were while you were here. You were an amazing athlete and friend. You will definitly be missed by all. I hope and pray you have found happiness in the next life.

Summer Solstice

2008-06-28T14:23:00.000-07:00

A couple weeks ago, we went to a summer solstice party. It was a blast. We only had 2 hours of darkness that night. We also were almost kidnapped, when we hitch hiked home. We should probably be smarter about things like that. Me and Becca
Potato sack races
Peace
We thought we were so cool

Leau

2008-06-27T17:27:00.000-07:00

On thursday, we went to a leau for someones birthday... i have no clue whos birthday it was, but we went for a bit. We didn't stay long, because the entire skagway police force came (3 cops haha) and told us we were being to loud, so some of us bounced.

Us roommates walking to the "green house" Bored

Cheese

Hunter is of course wasted

Sam We took 60 pictures of us pulling retarded faces

Sitting around the camp fire

Gangster

Ha ha I have no clue what we're doing

Laundry Day

2008-06-18T20:43:00.000-07:00

I had to do laundry today. I have to walk 3 blocks. IT SUCKS! and is so expensive. I like to carry it on my head. I have now started carrying everything on my head.

Around Town

2008-06-18T20:14:00.000-07:00

This is posted everywhere
Me and Allyssa found some cool seats

The whole front of this building is drift wood Me on the bridge over the river
Welcome to skagway
Where they repair the train
Found a cool car

We get bored a lot and walk around town. These pictures are from the first time we walked around town.

Pirate Party

2008-06-15T15:17:00.000-07:00

There are more pictures coming. Our next door neighbors were having a pirate party.

After our pirate party

They dragged me out of bed to go to a pirate party next door

Me and Noah doing dishes

Random

2008-06-14T17:55:00.000-07:00

Us after hiking... Roommates
Hiking

Fridge

2008-06-14T17:53:00.000-07:00

The first couple weeks we were starving.... then the costco order came.

We drank 7 milks in one week.

Highlighters and Blacklights

2008-06-14T17:47:00.001-07:00

This was a fun night. Music+highlighters+blacklight+cameras

Bon Fires

2008-06-14T17:28:00.000-07:00

Ali, Me, and Becca on the beach Our backyard neighbors

Allyssa, Becca, Ali, Me, and Noah
All of us on the beach having a bon fire

We love to have campfires. We have made some fun friends. They live up on the glacier at the dog sled camp though and only come down one day a week. We always go hiking and have bon fires on the beach. We also have friends that live right behind us that do rock climbing tours. Sadly, the only thing people do in skagway (since everything shuts down by 6) is drink. Dont worry. Us Utah girls have stuck together. And since everyone knows us in town, they now know to stop asking us if we want some.

Ferry to Haines

2008-06-14T17:20:00.000-07:00

A while back we took a ferry to Haines. It was really fun. We saw a whale. I have a picture of it that I'll put up soon. Haines is a little bit bigger than Skagway. We were jealous, because they have a swimming pool. But we love Skagway more.

Skagway

2008-06-14T17:07:00.000-07:00

This is little Skagway, Alaska

800 people

Alaska

2008-06-14T17:01:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody. You all wanted pictures, so I'll post some up here. Miss you all.