Weekend Activities

On Saturday Emily and I drove about an hour south of Anchorage to go snow shoeing. We stumbled upon this place when we got lost looking for Portage Lake when Calvin and Ruth were here. It was a little nasty out - snow and rain - and we took Banjo with us. When we pulled over and started our trek, we realized that the only people who were there were doing backcountry skiing. So we walked where the ski trail was. Even though we had our snow shoes on the trail, our feet would still go down up to our knees sometimes. And off the trail, it would go up to our waists. It was a fun little walk, and Banjo had a blast, even though he accumulated about a thousand little snowball all on his fur.

Saturday night we went to see and hear The Sounds of the 60's. It was put on by the chorus that Margaret from my work is in (we felt pressured into going), but it was pretty good. Margaret promised a "big surprise" in the show, but we're still not quite sure what that was. The evening was completed with some interpretive dance to jesus christ super star. On our way out of the theater we crossed paths with all of the folks getting out of the body building championship, which was held in the same building. It was a much different crowd from all of the middle aged folks dressed in tie dye.

Sunday was a pretty mundane day. We spent most of the morning organizing the storage areas and throwing out all of the crap Meghan left. Then we went down to the Dimond mall to get Neil a belt for his interview, and to look for some clothes for me (this grey dirty melting snow is slowly sucking my soul--that's a quote from one of Neil's friend's who moved to Anchorage for a few years), but I was sick of all of the sweaters and needed a little pick me up. On our way to Dimond we stopped at Costco, which is right across the street to get a frapaccino. We also ended up getting our own membership, because we decided we wanted to get the credit card. For signing up we also got to spin the wheel for a prize. We won a free combo pizza (to be redeemed at a later date). We've been really into watching the "Newly Weds" on tv. It's a reality show about newly weds (go figure). There's a barby/ken couple on it that I really want to get voted off, but instead all of the cool couples keep getting voted off. I'm still holding out for the "amazing race."

Matt has a girl friend now. She is from the midwest and works at REI with him. He's not sure how long it's going to last though, because she actually likes our president and is a big proponent of the war.

Apparently there is a server error on Google that won't let us post up the pictures. We'll put them up later.