What a great nights sleep! We woke up and found that Dave and Lise had made us blueberry pancakes for breakfast! So yummy! There was still fog/rain in the area, so we couldn't yet see the beautiful view that they kept telling us about. Dave was nice enough to show us around the city and take us to some stores to get some things. He took us to a bike shop so that Joey could get a new derailer for his bike (his started giving him problems about 3 days ago, the tensioner no longer worked). We also went to REI to return our bug nets since we wouldn't need those anymore. REI is such a neat store because if you are a member you get all sorts of benefits and you can return anything at any time for any reason, even if it was used; I don't know how it works, but it does. Next, we went to Plato's Closet where I was able to find some dresses for the cruise at a great price. From there, Dave took us to pick some of Lise's art up at the local shop and we headed over to her studio. They are working on selling their house to move back to the lower 48, so they have to consolidate and sell a lot of her equipment and art before the big move. Her work is amazing. She taught herself how to carve glass through what she had learned through her dentistry work. I had never seen glass carving pieces before, etched glass yes, but not carved. Her work really was beautiful. By that time, we were all getting hungry, so we went to Golden Corral for lunch and we treated. It was the least we could do since Dave had taken us all over the city to the stores and had waited patiently for us as we looked for everything we needed. Oh how I love buffets! From there we went on another quest to get some clothes for the cruise. They have what is called Value Village, which is a really nice second hand store. The clothes looked a little nicer than at some of the Salvation Army stores, and the clothes were even organized by size, which helped us a lot since we didn't want to spend all day shopping if we could help it. We found almost everything we needed there. Behind that store was the Salvation Army, we checked there too. All of us were amazed at what we saw there. Three coffins! How crazy is that, they had caskets at the Salvation Army! We couldn't believe it. Luckily we were able to find Joey a nice white shirt there. Earlier that day we were joking around about the really expensive stores, including ones like Norstrom, and the shirt we got for Joey ended up being from there; we thought it was pretty funny. When we got back to the house, we just relaxed the rest of the day. I did a load of laundry and Joe worked on getting his bike derailer all fixed and put new chains on both of the bikes since they were due for new ones. I am getting really excited for the cruise since we have most of our clothes now. It will be nice to get to wear something different than the same 2 shirts, shorts and pair of sweat pants that we've been wearing for the past 5 months. I can't wait to wear my new dresses and get to be girly. We were so full from lunch that we didn't need dinner, so we just had a piece of that yummy chocolate cake! By the time it got to be dinner time, the sky had cleared and we could see the city, the inlet and Mt. McKinley! They were right, it was an incredible view. Dave, Joey and I took Jack and Daffne on a little walk. Jack was funny because I went to take a picture of him and he sat there very still and posed for the picture. I held up the camera again at a later time just to see what he would do and sure enough, he instantly posed for the camera again. I have never seen a dog do that. Jack is definitely a technology age dog because Dave said he likes his smart phone when he uses it for face time, too. It was fun to watch the view because it was always changing. As it got darker, the silhouette of Mt. Mckinley became more pronounced and the lights of the city below began to twinkle even brighter. Before bed, we watched a movie, and Joey let me pick, so you know it was a romantic comedy, my favorite. What a great day, we got a lot accomplished in preparation for the cruise and the continued journey afterwards.
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