Alaska winter 2022 memories

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Anchorage, Alaska was beautiful!

We were invited up to babysit the granddaughters. Grandparents have a difficult time resisting an invitation like that, right?  We decided to drive to Chicago in order to take the direct, early morning flight to Anchorage in order to have time to adjust to the 4 hour time difference. The roads were great, the hotel was very, very clean and had good beds plus there was a good brewery close by for dinner.


We had the opportunity to do so much with girls!








Illustrated story by June.



I did Celia's hair and she protested heartily so I took a photo to prove that she did indeed have a 'pony'!


Endless fashion shows!








So much energy!!
Thanksgiving Day dessert

Have you heard of turduckon? this is a piecake something or other. Pies are baked into cakes. Pumpkin pie in a layer of pumpkin cake, Pecan pie in a layer of chocolate cake and Apple pie in a layer of spice cake! I'm not quite sure HOW it is done but it was very tasty!


It was cold there!!

There was not much fresh snow and roads were clear!




We also enjoyed spending some time with the other grands!



We got home safely, drove back on clear roads again and happily slept in our own bed!  
We came home suffering from nasty head colds and coughs but no covid. 

Two days after we left, they got 2 feet of snow in one night!! We  appreciated missing that one! 








A light-show walk at the botanical gardens!  It was cold!

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