My favorite vacation spot.....Alaska!

I'm jumping on the Kelly's Korner-Show Us Your Life bandwagon.

My favorite vacation spot would have to be Alaska. Well for starters, I absolutely LOVE cold weather and have always wanted to go to Alaska. Since I live in the south, we RARELY get cold winters and never get snow. I got the opportunity of a lifetime when one of my best friends, Carol, and her family got stationed back at Fort Richardson, AK. Her husband, Toby, is in the Army. In April of 2007, Carol bought me a plane ticket and I stayed a week with her and her family in the beautiful state of Alaska!

(This is me standing on a frozen lake. Three days later, half the lake had already melted!)

(This is me at the famous, Beluga Point. They say this is one of the best places to see the Beluga Whales when they "run". You have to walk down some rocks to get to this point and my clumsy butt fell trying to climb back up the rocks, and am now the proud owner of a scar on my knee that was obtained in Alaska, LOL.)

(This photo makes me laugh. This was taken the day Carol and I went down to Portage. We stopped at some petting zoo on the way back home and this guy was getting off a helicopter and asked us for a ride. CRAZY Carol asked where he was going and he told her he was staying at the Alyeska Ski Resort so Carol told him to hop in we were driving by there. I was like, OMG Carol, this dude could murder us! Well, low and behold, he is a professional Austrian snowboarder, Gigi Ruf. He was in Alaska shooting a snowboarding video for the company he is signed with. How cool is that?! and yes, thank you Jesus he wasn't a serial killer! Carol said she decided to give him a ride because the ski resort accomodates only the wealthy! )

I am hoping that Keith, Preslei and I can plan a trip up there next year! Toby is currently deployed to Afghanistan so I want to wait until he comes home so Keith will have a hunting and fishing buddy!