A Busy Week

It has been a busy week with Grammy here. 

 Here are a few of the highlights.

Ice skating at the Dimond Mall with buddy Vivvy...again.  Had to show Grammy how well we skate.

A trip to Hatcher's Pass and Independence Mine.  

Yep, still snowy up there!

And this is the building we had lunch.  That roof has seen some weather that is for sure!  Great place to stop though.  Best peanut butter and jelly ever, and probably most expensive, but soooo worth it.

Made a Saturday trip to the Saturday Market.

Tuesday we packed up and headed to the forest fire in the Kenai.   We tagged along with Rob on one of his work travels and stayed in Soldotna with a day trip to Homer.   Didn't see much of the almost  200,000 acre fire in the Kenai Wildlife Refuge, but you knew it was there with all the media, fire signs and smoke smell.  It has just began raining (after only 2 days of rain in an 80 day period) and it helped a bit extinguish the smoke.  Whew.  We actually had tons of smoke back home for a few days from this fire as the wind was blowing just right.

In Soldotna lies the best playground...ever.  We walked there along the river walk from the hotel where we just went for a swim (trying to wear the kid out).

Armed only with my iPhone as the rain was quite drizzly, we headed to Homer the next day and did some shopping and rock throwing. 

After arriving home we headed to the Anchorage Museum.

Where the Imaginarium (kid section) was the highlight for Amelia, not the artwork.

However, the Plastics exhibition was cool!  Did I mention we brought Elsa and Anna along?   They were free to get in. :)

The pipeline exhibit is always a must...because of Dad.

 

A whole week to go!