Alaska Adventure Day 1

We got up on day one ready to begin what Caden refers to as, "our big Alaska Adventure". He is the king of catch phrases and one liners. I am the queen of sleeping in the car on road trips but I couldn't put my camera down long enough to nod off. The scenery from Anchorage to Fairbanks (about a 7 hour trip) was breathtaking. 

 You really do feel like you are at the top of the world here. You know when you look out over an expanse of sky and it seems like it goes on forever in a continuous blue plane? Here the clouds bend  towards the earth, like you're in a snow globe.

 This was taken at 8 pm. We are in the summer of no night here. I think they get like 101 days of daylight.

 And this is just some weird building we saw along the side of the road.

 We stopped for a picnic lunch and this was our view...which we enjoyed from the van. There were mosquitoes EVERYWHERE and wasps. It was like we were in a horror movie. They surrounded us and kept flinging themselves against the windshield and windows making little pings with their fat little bodies, bloated on the blood from other sight seers.

 The kids did great on the car trip but we were really happy to finally arrive at our hotel. Caden looked around, tossed his bag on the floor and declared, "yup, this'll do".