Saturday, June 13: Arrival to Anchorage

Today we got up at 6 AM to finish packing and head on down to the airport. Alice was nice enough to drive us down to the airport before that I had yogurt and so did Mary. Mary can’t find her sunglasses hopefully that she can mail them when she finds them. Anyhow, we got to the airport in plenty of time. TSA was fast. The food offering are kind of lame in this end of the airport all they had was a Petes coffee and they didn’t serve breakfast food so we had a pesto sandwich which was good. We’re in groupie, which is the second the last group it’s now 7:50 AM. Oh yeah, one of Pat Brothers is suing The sister to sell the Millbourne property that I rent from. So we’ll see what happens there that oughta be an interesting little soap opera.  Well, the Plane left closer to 9 said we would arrive around 1 PM which gives us plenty of time to pick up Mary’s lawn luggage and get an Uber to the rental car place which is outside the airport then it’s time to plug down two grandbaby for the car. Anyway, we got Insurance. We’re all good there. Been a pretty smooth flight seats are a little more comfortable than the flight to San Diego. So 127 we just landed at Anchorage and oh my God the view from the airplane window was absolutely stunning. I’ve never seen anything like it. The clouds are broke up enough that we could see through and get some good pictures. It was mind blowing really instantly went on Facebook and posted stuff and so did Mary. The next stop is to pick up bags pick up an Uber then pick up the rental car. Will be picked up the bags and then couldn’t find an Uber anywhere in the airport. Turns out later on we found out it’s on the upper level. Anyway, we took a cab the nice Armenian man who pointed out there’s a big mural that said welcome to Alaska that we went to after we checked in at the hotel and fetch our rental car. The lady at the Rental Car Pl. who wrote the email was very nice. We’re now eating at the 49th State Tavern. I’m having a bit vegan burger and Mary’s having a traditional burger. We’re both very hungry. We want to eat and crash beautiful place. Well, reach out done and had a good time over at the 49th State Tavern. We did wet back to the hotel and checked in our room and decided that we would switch rooms. We would ask the guy before he went out to dinner if he would do that and he was very agreeable so we said we’d be back around 9 o’clock after we meet Hannah and story for dinner at a place called the Rusted  Goat. So we drove out to that place. It took us about 12 or 15 minutes to get there and they were waiting for us and we came very nice looking restaurant kind of remind me of the 49th state Tavern, but not as crowded. We ate upstairs and I ordered chicken wings, and Mary ordered a a Barada and a blackberry appetizer. They were both very good eye chow down heavily on the chicken wings just like a chow down on that burger that I had earlier. It was really nice to talk to Hannah and story story told what happened to his knee he he blew out an ACL and he told me about his jobs guiding people helicopter skiing which I would never do in 100,000 years, but he guides people doing that and does river rafting guiding in different places such as Idaho and he’s been also too chilly. Very interesting lifestyle they both live that’s for sure. Hannah then gave us the stuff that we had ordered through Amazon. We then saw a cool looking motorcycle in the parking lot and shared it with Pat. We then switched routes what you got to the hotel. He was very cooperative now it’s 10:14 PM and we’re just mellowing out till we get super tired and just go to bed very eventful day

Friday, June 12: Target Starbucks, Shabbat Dinner and Yahtzee

Good day everybody today is the last full day. We’re spending in Poway California. Mary met up with Becky and Ned her husband and we hung out with them for a while and Alice was at work and we hung out with her as well. After that, I had some cereal and then Mary and I headed off to the hangout of our choice Starbucks at the target. They have really good iced coffee and they have this one table we can sit in. We are very lucky the tables never fool. We got to sit in it all the time. Went there and we hung out there for about two hours where we both drank two iced coffees and they’re really strong, but they’re very good especially for me when I add milk to it. The employees are getting to know us I went to the men’s room he’s like hey dude you spend more time here than I do and he’s a target employee so we were getting pretty well known just sitting there shooting thisYear blogging and planning last-minute changes in our Alaska trip tidying up loose and such as the Car Rental right now Mary and I are pretty caffeinated so we’re gonna go take a walk. It’s 2:49 PM. We have to be back at the house by six for Shabbat dinner. I also talked to Wes and told about the mixup that Alice thought that Wes was coming towards San Diego not to Long Beach Island in two weeks. It was all pretty silly. Well, we hung out for a while and we went outside to hang out. Mimi came over and Alice shared a little card that you wrote to mom for the afterlife was very nice. She also ordered the Indian food we’re gonna have the Shabbat tonight at 6:30. Dinner was very excellent. We had all kinds of Indian food provided by Alice. Indian foods just damn excellent and then we had ice cream sundaes made up by Alice and her kids. The Sundays were very good. Then we played a game of Yahtzee, which I’ve never played in my life. I’ve seen the commercials when I was a kid. I’m glad they chose this game because strategy, but a lot of luck which helped me out and I actually won this game. So I’m gonna frame the winning thing assuming it makes it through the Alaska trip in one piece. I don’t win games like this very often so it was fun. We had a good time. Mitch coaching us really helped. Well after that, we all relax and then it was time for us to get ready pack and that’s what we did. We gotta get up very early tomorrow morning for a flight to Anchorage Alaska.