What We Did Over Summer Vacation

Remember the list of things I wanted to do this summer? Well as I mentioned Monday it's officially fall, so here's what we got 'crossed off' the list!

1. Visit Palmer and the Colony House Museum. Maybe even during Colony Days!
2. Ride somewhere on the Alaska Railroad.
3. Ride somewhere on the Alaska Marine Highway.
4. Visit the city of Kenai.
5. Visit the city of Homer.
6. Visit Soldotna.
7. Go to the Alaska State Fair.
8. Spend a few hours at the Anchorage Saturday Market.
9. Take a glacier cruise (maybe with these folks or these folks).
10. Take the kids to Seward to the Alaska Sealife Center.

Sooo...5 of out of 10 doesn't seem so great. Until you think about all of the other things we did that I hadn't even heard of when I was making the list!

Here are a few:

• visited Crow Creek Mine in Girdwood
• visited Hope and their museum
  
• took a dog sled ride and kennel tour with Seavey's Iditaride in Seward
• went clamming
• visited the Pratt Museum in Homer
• took the girls for pony rides at the Anchorage Market
• took the Portage Glacier Cruise
• Visited the Begich Boggs Visitor Center (Portage Glacier)
  
• watched salmon migrate in to spawn
• caught a salmon with my bare hands
• went halibut fishing
• took the kids to the Alaska Museum of Natural History
• hiked
• went berry picking
  

So all in all, it was a fantastic summer! Many thanks to my fantastic hubby and all of our guests for tolerating us dragging you all over the Kenai Peninsula. And potential visitors next year, take note...we're planning to explore the parts of Alaska north of Anchorage next summer. Study up! ;-)