We had a fantastic nights sleep last night. It was already after 9 when we woke up, so we got to sleep in a little today! We found a note from Elise that she had taken Cito on a walk and to rummage around in the kitchen to find something for breakfast. I made Joey some scrambled eggs, and we both had cereal and milk and toast with honey! It was so yummy! Once we were all packed, we said our goodbyes with plans to see them again in a few days (especially since Jeff seemed excited to make some moose burgers from a moose that he had caught (Elise is a pescitarian, so he doesn't have them that often)). Another beautiful sunny day, and the wind was even better than yesterday! The road was a little less hilly than yesterday, but the view was just as incredible. The little town of Ninilchik was pretty neat. When we arrived in the little town of Anchor Point, we stopped at a pawn shop to see how much all of the lures that we found out the side of the road yesterday were worth, just for curiosity sake. When we saw them yesterday, we figured that we might as well pick them up because someone could use them, and maybe we would even get a little dinero for them! We stopped at the visitor center and found out there was a great place by the ocean we could to make lunch, the furthest west place we could go to by highway in North America! There was a terrific sign to take a picture by when we got there and the view was perfect. We made some mac and cheese for lunch and called home quick to share our excitement of being as far west as we could be on our trip! The hills got a bit bigger as we got closer to Homer. At one point we caught up to a guy riding with a big pack on his back. We found out he was from New Jersey and was riding from Anchorage to Homer to camp on the spit (the skinny stretch of land that sticks out into the inlet) for about a month. Once we got to the top of the hill just before Homer, the view was even better. We could see the spit off in the distance and the mountains across from Homer. We met a couple nice ladies at the pull off on the top of the bluff that let us use their binoculars to see what we were pretty sure were otters! The ride down the hill into town was just as beautiful. We found where we were supposed to turn to go to our Warm Shower's host, Charlie's, house, but we didn't know exactly what house to go to since the phones were dead. Luckily we were able to ask the neighbors and they pointed us in the right direction. Charlie and his wife Debbi, and their dog Nicco, were there to greet us! We got some kisses from the puppy who was super excited to have new friends. I was so excited when I saw where we were staying. First of all, we were right on the water I was getting really excited when we took the little trail to get to the cabin! When we got there, it was like we were in a fairy tale. We found the cutest little cabin, with the best view! It's so hard to explain how great it was, and the pictures won't do it justice, but it will definitely be one of those places that we will never forget. The main house was beautiful too. We each took a shower and I got to use the "pretty bathtub!" It was so neat because it was all made of wood! Joey and I decided to go out to eat with grammy's "anniversary fund" and were recommended a couple places by our host. While we were walking to the restaurant, we stopped at the Homer Visitor Center. All of a sudden we heard someone ask if we were from Upstate New York (they had seen our Keuka College/Lyons hoodies). She was originally from the Rochester area and had even been accepted to Keuka College, but came to Alaska instead. It was pretty neat that we got to meet her. The restaurant we ended up going to was called "Cafe Cups" and was such a neat, fun place to be. It was very artsy and had mosaics made of pretty teacups and wine bottles and a lot of little touches like beaded napkin rings to make it that fun atmosphere. Joe ordered a beer and I had a great sweet white wine. It was pretty funny because Joe said "well, there are no cheeseburgers on the menu here, it must be a fancy place!." And it was. We had a bit of a hard time figuring out exactly what we wanted to order because the menu had a lot of fancy wording. Joe ordered a prime rib with super yummy steak fries and I ordered one of the specials of clams, jumbo shrimp, salmon tossed in a tomato alfredo pasta. We enjoyed our salads and homemade bread with garlic butter, it was all just so heavenly! Joe finished his dinner pretty quick as usual and enjoyed helping me eat a little of mine too. I ate a lot and it hardly looked like I made a dent, guess we will have dinner tomorrow! We walked back to the house and enjoyed some great conversation with Charlie before retiring for the night in our little cabin by the water. I am so excited that we get to stay 2 nights here, I wish we could stay for a month! So happy that we were blessed with great weather again. Charlie said he would take us out in his skiff tomorrow, so we are really excited about that too! I can't believe that we are going to get to go out into ocean water! This trip keeps getting better and better. We rode 44.13 miles today.
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