Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Trip to Anchorage

Lavonne had an appointment at the eye clinic in Anchorage so her son Josh and Deborah and I went with her. The appointment went great, her eyes are doing very well. It had been over a year since Lavonne and Josh had been to Anchorage so they were eager to go shopping (after a Big Mac at McDonald's of course.) We shopped until almost midnight the first night we were there. It is nearing the longest day of the year so it's light all night.
We keep our motor home in this remote parking area right at the airfield. It is very convenient whenever we stay in Anchorage. On the rare occasions when the whole family comes in, it is great to go shopping in because anyone who is tired of shopping can head out to the motor home for a rest.
Below Deborah opened the gate so we could drive the sidekick to the motor home. we were going to be there for awhile so she shut the gate and locked it. I looked in the rearview mirror and this is what I saw...
I opened the door to have a home schooling moment with her, something about the laws of physics. But, being the independent learner she is, she started laughing and opened the gate again and locked it with her on the other side (It was late and she was tired.) She was good enough to reenact it for me since I wasn't fast enough with the camera.
I wish I'd taken more pictures so you could see the huge pallet of food we picked up at Costco. We order enough at one time that we qualify for their fax and pull program. I fax them an order and they pull it from the shelves for us and load it with a forklift. That is my kind of shopping! Usually it's Paul that picks up the order about every three months, but I got to do it this time. We borrowed the Martin's truck. It's a small truck and the pallet looked quite comical in the back.
It seemed like we were racing the entire time to get all of our shopping done. We did get time to visit with our good friend Regina (in the Costco food court) who lives and worships with us in Nondalton. She is a tour guide during the summer. I also got a chance to slip out while the kids were watching a movie to Kristy's house (another good friend) for a short time of prayer and encouragement along with a hot cup of tea.
Below Deborah, Lavonne and I are in the plane headed home.
In the picture below we are landing at the airfield in Nondalton. Josh was so worn out from the trip that he slept most of the way back. The pilot was Glenn, the owner of Lake Clark Air, the air taxi service that Paul flies for. His landing was so smooth, Josh didn't even wake up.
Sarah was excited to see me (everyone else was too, but she waves so cute!)
When we got back to the house, the kids had an inflatable ball playground set up. It was donated to the thrift store while I was gone.
Paul started throwing balls at us so we returned them to him.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

We were getting pretty low on groceries so Paul headed to Anchorage with a long list. Deborah got to go with him so she could go take the written test and get her Driver's permit. Anchorage has lots of snow (as opposed to us here in Nondalton with none). So the first order of business was to uncover the sidekick from its' spot in the remote parking area where it stays tucked in with our motorhome.Deborah passed her test and got her permit, but she didn't drive very much because the roads were quite icy.
It didn't turn out to be the smoothest of trips... It started with a flat tire on the sidekick and then they had to stay an extra day when the airplane wouldn't start for the trip home. It turned out to be a bad magneto. They replaced it and flew home the next day.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Mt. Redoubt Volcano pictures

Abigail, Sarah, and I flew to Anchorage last week for Abigail's orthodontist appointment (she's scheduled to get her braces off on April 13th).  I had my camera at the ready in case Mt. Redoubt erupted.  I got some pretty good pictures.  It wasn't a full blown eruption, but it was the biggest the pilot had seen since it became active about a month ago.  I just got a breaking news report that they have upgraded its' alert status back up to orange because it is rumbling again.


Lavonne had a doctor's  appointment in Anchorage so she and Josh came in too.  Below is a picture of us leaving Costco.  Dima who loads the airplanes for Lake Clark Air and is a master at filling every available space, would have been proud of how much we fit into our little Sidekick.  Sarah is holding the eggs in the left of the picture.

Paul got to stay home and spend some quality time with the rest of the kids.