We had a nice walk Tuesday night, walking down to the harbor, it was absolutely breathtaking! Jesse and I just cannot get over how beautiful it is everywhere we go up here!
Lucky for Jesse he has become my new subject in most of my photos. And lucky for me, he has a pretty smile and i get lots of good pictures of him. I'm sure he will get sick of it, but thats what he gets for living with a photographer :) in the background of the photo below is PeterPan one of the canneries in Dillingham. During the summer Dillingham has 3 running canneries that support its local economy during the summer, and yes, they can fish.
It was quite cold for our walk, we were both in hats, and sweatshirts, and jackets! but it was still beautiful. Until it started to rain of course. So we trekked back home, and took some pictures of some beautiful flowers on the way! The main flower in Dillingham Alaska is called Fireweed, and it is BEAUTIFUL!
Wednesday was my first day of work! It was a long day of paperwork in HR, and the afternoon was supposed to be filled with orientation! but lucky for me we had a patient flown in from another villiage who needed some hygiene work done before he left the next morning, so i spent my first afternoon doing 2 quads of SRP! woot. It was fantastic.
My good friend Karen picks me up for work almost every morning and takes me home, this included my first day of work! I got home and supper was on the table, i was very excited, i could even smell it from outside. Jesse knows me so well, pancakes and bacon :) It was very good. After our supper Jesse decided to take me on a walk down to the pier, where he had gone while i was at work. It was beautiful, even though it was cloudy. We saw lots of birds, and they even had caught themselves some fish!
It was a bit cold that night! haha. 54* is a little cold for us South Dakotan's not quite used to the chillier weather during the summer!
Thursday was another nice day at work, even got some orientation in! Thursday night we spent the evening buying a car (see first photo), baking beef biscuits, and making cookies and cream truffles for Friday. It was raining as we got home from buying our car, so of course we had to have the most beautiful rainbow :)
Friday we headed out the door at 7:45am! we drove the 26 miles with Karen and her boyfriend Dean to Aleknagik Lake! We spent the first 45 minutes taking a boat ride across the pristine and clear lake to Camp Polaris. We rented the camp area for our dental retreat. Everyone in the family was invited, so there were kids, and dogs and spouses, it was super fun! The pictures i got from the lake are absolutely stunning. We spent the day there, and came back late in the afternoon. We then spent the evening making dinner and bumming around (something we have gotten too good at).
This is our friend Liz's dog Keno. He is my favorite!
This is a photo from the lake! it was beautiful!
Another photo from Camp Polaris! :)
This is the group photo taken by the timer set on my camera! we all had so much fun!!
And then there is Jess and I. :)
Then Saturday we slept in! neither of us set an alarm! what a glorious feeling!!! Then Jess was looking out our front door and found Heather and Adrianne, some new friends of ours. Heather is a dental assistant at work, and Adrianne is her daughter. We then joined them on a trek to the library, it was super fun! although my aversion to library books is still there, we found out that there are free movie rentals at the library! that got me to buy a TV! i figured that i had to get us something to do during the winter :) It is currently being shipped to us from amazon.com.
This is week one! :) Wait patiently for the next update... as week 2 is almost over!
We miss you all, and wish you were here with us, which poses the question... who is coming to visit first?
