Somehow or another it is June. I am not quite sure where the time disappeared to, but it is gone, and now it is summer. My days are currently monopolized by the World Cup, which started less than a week ago, but I feel a strong addiction to the matches already.
I spent the past two and a half weeks in Washington state. It was a vacation that did not involve too much adventure, but was a much needed break from my day to day in Anchorage. The first weekend found Andrew and I zipping down to the beach house in Ocean Park, arriving at 3:30am after a fun middle of the night drive down from Seattle. It is a good way to avoid the traffic!
The weather did not exactly cooperate and we spent most of the weekend playing games and watching movies. Saturday was the one decent day, allowing us time to go on a beachwalk, where we saw a resting baby seal. Supposedly the mother was hunting and returning to pickup the nearly newborn pup. I also took a trip out to Leadbetter State Park, where I saw the first bear of the season, a small blackie, strange to see one away from Alaska.
After the beach weekend, I spent the week in Seattle-- enjoying sleeping in, morning runs, afternoon naps and evening movies. On Saturday, my parents arrived in Seattle. We saw the Mariners lose on Sunday to the Angels, went sailing in Elliott Bay on Monday, a trip to Paradise at Mt. Rainier on Tuesday, a Sounders game with Kelly on Thursday, and graduation on Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday I zipped back to Alaska, back to work for a few weeks before the sailing trip. Pictures to follow...
