Arrival

Well, we've arrived. We made it to Alaska and are actually in one piece. The travel here was interesting to say the least. We boarded a plane at 5:00 PM on departure day and following two long flights and one fairly short layover, we arrived in Anchorage 9 1/2 hours later. That's 2:30 AM for those not inclined to do the mental math. 2:30 AM with two girls who did not have a nap the day previous.

Try to picture us navigating the airport with two EXTREMELY tired little girls, 7 suit cases, 3 pets, 2 car seats and 1 pack-n-play. It was not a pretty sight. Then we camped out at a hotel for the night before loading all of that stuff up in a rental car to make the 3 hour trek to our new town. Or should I call it a village? Campground? It's small here, let's just leave it at that. Small, but absolutely beautiful. Seriously. Mountains everywhere. Gorgeous!

So now I find myself sitting in a lovely little condo where we are now settled. Well, at least as settled as people can be in temporary housing. We feel blessed to have found this place. It's a little run down on the outside but completely renovated on the inside. So once we get past the front door, we feel like we are living in the lap of luxury. That is until it is time for dinner time and/or bath time. I say that because we have no table/chairs for dinner time and no bath tubs for bath time. Seriously. We have a bar and stools off the kitchen which work fine for most of us. But Sarah? Yeah, the 1-year-old is not rockin' the bar stool. So she sits in my lap to eat her meals. She better not get used to that! I didn't like the fact that we have no table and chairs, but that wasn't as surprising as not having a bath tub. We have 3 bathrooms in this place and not one of them has a tub. So the girls are getting to experience the joys of taking showers. So far, they are on board and even enjoying it a bit. Wonder how long it will be before the newness wears off and they start pining away for the bath tub.

Rest assured that I am taking plenty of pictures to share. And share I will, eventually. When the movers were packing up our house, I didn't remember to set aside the software I would need to upload pictures from my camera to our borrowed laptop. So I have tons of pics on my camera, and no way to get them on to yea ole blog. So for now, I will just have to do my best to paint word pictures and when our stuff arrives (in 3 to 5 weeks) I'll update with actual pictures.

That's it for now. Soon I'll share with you some of our house hunting adventures!