Friday, August 15, 2008

Report from Alaska

We have really been enjoying our vacation. it's great because this is something we would never do on our own. One of the subcontractors, J&S Mechanical, that Paul works with is hosting us on this trip. Jack, who is president of operations, invited us a long time ago so it's been fun just anticipating the trip and checking out online what we would be doing.

There are 4 couples and then 4 more guys (without their wives) on this trip. We are staying in Sitka at a nice hotel.

Right after we arrived on Tuesday we went exploring in the afternoon. Sitka is a small town - you can drive from one end to the other and it's only 13 miles. The mountains are so cool - coming up right from the ocean. Most of our group walked over to Sitka National Park to see the salmon swimming upriver. It's such an amazing thing to watch. There were hundreds of fish in the river and pretty big.
The National Park was like a rain forest. It was beautiful and lots of great trails to explore. All I kept thinking was what a great place to run.
For dinner that evening we went out as a group for mexican. It was delicious. We thought that was pretty funny to go all the way to Alaska for mexican food.

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