Saturday began with a trip to the farmer's market and subsequently eating our way through the market with the purchase of 3 vanilla cream horns, one almond cake, one rhubarb cake and one reindeer hotdog for Dan. Then it was the large bag of sugar kettle corn for sharing... imagine a large steaming kettle in which popcorn, sugar and a bit of salt are dumped and stirred into an amazing confection of light, airy, just-sweet-enough, with a bit of saltiness, warm popcorn!!
After snacking on all things good at the Alaska Farmer's Market, we went to the Alaska Bird Observatory for some owl fun!! Observe our observations....
After that it was lunch at the Chowder House!! Very good smoked salmon chowder and build-yer-own sandwiches. Tate had nothing except a cookie! And then was subjected to the photography show. Here's how he enjoyed it...
Since Adrian and I were going out that night by ourselves and leaving the boys to fend for themselves I decided that a nap was not needed for Tate (hahahaha) and we proceeded to the Large Animal Research Center on the UAF campus. We saw the cool musk ox and caribou through the fences and hiked around the property with Inai.
There was lots of hiding in the woods and Tate finding us. And lots of running!! We got home and like I said Adrian and I were off to a girl's night out party with some crazy, funny, very wonderful Alaska-living women, complete with fabulous fish tacos, wine and fancy bejeweled, flowered, toe-polishing. I haven't been to something so girly since I was... well... a girl!! Adrian said it was over-compensation for living in such rough climates - I can believe it!! So I have pretty blue toenails with white flowers painted on them - because... when in Rome!!!!
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