Steve Up North-

Steve arrived late in the afternoon on Mother's Day. He had to take a nap on the way down. (he's holding his wrapped hand behind his back!!!)

Janet made chocolate shortbread/scones and we used those as a base for strawberry shortcake with ice chocolate chip ice cream and whipped topping. YUMMY!

Steve showed up and had his without strawberries~

Family photo of Janet and Lee and JaLeen with Mum. 

Steve's bag got searched. It must be a Hansell thing. I wonder if you put this tag in your bag before you left, would they think it was already searched? Usually they 'stamp' the tag, this one is blank!

Stunning day on Monday. This is down by the Tesoro docks. There were a LOT of people out halibut fishing. Most of them were using basic salmon poles with hooks sllightly smaller than the BIG ones you use out in the inlet for halibut fishing.

Picking up rocks-

After 8, we went down to the beach at Arness Dock. Steve wanted to take photos of the jack up drilling platform. (the link takes you to that post from Hansell notes) I found this GREAT piece of driftwood. Unfortunately, Steve said I couldn't bring it home. He said it wouldn't fit in the car.

Photo of rig by Steve- as good as one of Jon's!!!! While we were on this beach we met another family fishing for halibut. The 3 small girls had made cute houses from rocks and driftwood, they had made a kind of six plus foot tall tripod of wood (am thinking the 12 year old boy helped with that one!), and had two poles drifting with the tide. We got to watch the dad bring in a small chicken (halibut) and the girls were so much fun to watch! Squealing and jumping around! I wasn't sure if they were visitors or Alaskans, I'm thinking they were the latter.

On the way back to the house, we found this guy on the side of the road! He was absolutely focused on food and completely ignored all the cars stopped/passing!

We got home and were telling mum about the creatures when Steve suddenly said something like, 'there's another one!' We had a young cow by our house. Most of my photos didn't turn out very well, she was stately and moving quite purposefully around the edge of lake.

It was a very good Alaskan day. I want to get Steve a fishing license and tag for halibut, but I am afraid he'd forget and use the hand he isn't supposed to use! BAD idea~ He's pretty tired and doing quite a bit of resting in between sights and tidying up dad's shop a bit. It is good to have him here.