Alaska here we come!

Lloyd served his mission in Alaska and loved it. A few years ago we were able to go on a fishing trip with Sharla and Brian and visit part of his mission. We loved it! Earlier this year Lloyd started thinking of a convert of his, Sam Gibson, and felt like he needed to contact him. Thanks to facebook and his daughter he was able to get in touch with him and a plan was made to go to visit him. He has also been wanting to go to the Anchorage temple. I said as long as we were up there we needed to plan a few other fun things. And he did! We were able to spend about a week up there. It was an incredible trip. Alaska is a beautiful place and time with Lloyd makes everything wonderful. We left on my last day of school. We flew out of Las Vegas, had a lay over in Portland and landed in Anchorage Alaska at 1:30 a.m.

The beautiful flowering tree's outside our motel room!

Is that a mosquito? Yikes

We rented a tandem bike and rode on a 22 mile coastal bike trail in Anchorage. It was lots of fun and the scenery was incredible!

Everything is bigger in Alaska, even dandylions:)

 Shopping downtown with the locals....

Lunch break at a beautiful park!

30 + years and we found one of his mission apartments!

A beautiful evening attending the temple!

Does it ever get dark here?

The next day we decided to hike Flat top mountain in Anchorage. On our way to the trail head we ran into this guy!

It was a beautiful hike!

Wild flowers, Wildlife!

Then we hit the tough part!

But the views were incredible at the top!!

And then it was back down the mountain!!!!

We made it!

One more stop at the temple!

On our way to Soldotna!

Visiting Sam

After church we took a Sunday drive to Homer!

Dinner on the spit!

A Russian Orthodox Church

We drove to Seward and embarked on the Kenai Fjords tour. It was really, really cold but totally worth it. We saw so many beautiful things!

A hike to exit glacier!

The black dot in the middle of these trees is a mother bear and two cubs. 

This is the river walk way on the Kenai river in Soldotna!

Out side of the visitors center in Soldotna

The world's record king salmon which was caught right in Soldotna

The Russian River Falls!

Everything is so lush and green

The wildflowers are incredible

It was a wonderful trip