The Second day of my great Anchorage Adventure!

So Sunday morning we got up early, well early for us. Pat came to pick us up and we headed off to go pick up our rental car. That took forever because we had to wait in line and then we realized that mom did not have her license with her. We hoped that it would not be more for me to drive the car and it wasn't. So I got to rent my first car. It was a silver 4 door and it was a nice car. It even had a CD player!

Our goal was to get to Seward and we didn't care at what time we got there. So we just started off, if I saw something that I liked I stopped and the same went for the rest of us. We used the Milepost and it was wonderful. We stopped a few places along the way to take a few pictures but our first real stop was at the gold mine. We got to pan for gold and see all the old tools that they used etc. I got a few nice gold chunks and so did Pat.

We continued on to Griswood and they had a nice gift shop that I had read about so we stopped and looked around. My mom liked a sweater so we decided that if she didn't find anything else that she liked we would stop back and buy it. We also decided that we would put off lunch and get ice cream now. Which we did and it was really, really good. Once we got back on the road, we drove for a while and stopped at bird point. You should be able to see a bunch of birds from here and also whales. The tide was out so we didn't see any whales. Then we stopped at the Wildlife Refuge. It was great. I got to pet a Moose and had a deer lick my entire arm. It was great!

Then we continued on to Seward and there were no stops to be made unless they were amazing. We only stopped at 3 to eat lunch, we stopped on the side of the road and made a picnic. My mom brought lots of food from Maine. When we got to Seward, we walked around and looked at the shops. I bought some cards and such. Then we went the sea life center to look at the gift shop. Then we got expresso, because I was not going to make it home otherwise and headed home. Seward was not like many of the small towns in Maine and just not quite what I was expecting. ]

As we were driving home, we saw all of these people stopped on the side of the road. So I decided to stop as well. There were beluga whales. It was so neat they were just floating in the water. We watched them for a while and then made our way back to Anchorage. It was 9:30 when we got back to Anchorage and decided to grab a quick dinner at burger king. It was like the only quick thing open.

Then we dropped Pat off and went back to our hotel.

Signing off!