Hello Campers! I weighed my suitcase MANY times before leaving for the airport. I was bound and determined to have no suitcase issues. My suitcase weighed in at 49.5 lbs. before I left for the airport, but in route, it must have gained weighed. I found myself pulling out a couple of items and shoving them into my backpack to meet the requirement so I didn't have to pay a fine! So my backpack was a good pound heavier than I had planned it to be. BUT I got all my stuff here!
The flight went great. My plane out of Aberdeen even left a few minutes early. That meant my plane landed earlier in Minneapolis giving me a few minutes longer to make what could have been a close connection. The flight from Minneapolis to Anchorage was great. On approach, we had to circle another time before landing because a plane landing right before us blew a tire. The extra circle of Anchorage was a good thing so 'they' could make sure there was no debris on the run way.
Terrie, Shannon, and Sara picked me up at the airport and we drove to Wasilla.
I'm sharing a couple pictures with you today, a view from my window at the Grand View. The first one was taken after 10:00 PM last evening. You can see there was quite a lot of daylight. As a matter of fact, the sun was almost bright. The ride from Anchorage to Wasilla was very beautiful with great views of the mountains and the flowers in bloom along the flats. I didn't check the temperature, but I was comfortable in short sleeves.
The second picture was from this morning and taken around 5:30 AM. It is cloudy and cool this morning. The awesome thing about cloudy is looking at the clouds that surround the mountains. The clouds seem to drift the tops of the mountains creating different views each time you look at the mountains. The weather channel says it is 45 degrees in Wasilla this morning. It is supposed to get up to 67 degrees and it will be a cloudy day.
I hope this posting finds all of you campers having a great day! Good luck on your journey, whatever it may be today!
We'll see you soon!
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Diane, Sheryl Cater and I walked around a couple of Minnesota lakes for two hours this morning - me babbling on and on about all the different things I want to see and do during and after boot camp, and Sheryl interjecting tips based on her experiences in Alaska. Every so often she would sigh, "I wish I was going with you!!"
One thing I hadn't thought of was for people to bring blank cd's. Sheryl said that at one of the conferences she attended, people burned cd's of photos they'd taken and gave them to other folks, so they went home with a ton of pictures. I just might have room for a few cd's in my partially packed bag.
See you soon!
Ann
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