Project 52 - Week 35

Week 35 ~ August 28- September 3

The boys and I decided to go and make a second attempt at seeing the Bore Tide.  (Well, I decided and the boys had no choice but to come along)  A bore tide is a wave that forms at the front of a tide as it come into a small space.  Alaska has the only bore tide in the U.S.  The wave is bigger on days when the tide is particularly low (around full and new moons) and there are charts to tell you when good days to see it are going to come around.  Search for bore tide on youtube and you can see people surfing it!

The tide can be seen from several spots along the Seward Highway.  We stopped at three turnouts on our drive (two looking for the bore tide and one just for fun)

At our first stop we got to check out an old train.  The big circle on the front is a giant snow plow!

Our second stop was at Beluga point.  Looking away from the water here we spotted 3 Dahl Sheep/Mountain Goats!  We got to see them through a telescope near the road, but they were still too small/fuzzy to determine which of the two animals they really were.  You can't tell but they are in this picture.  They are tiny white specs near what looks like a mound of dirt.

While I was lamenting the fact that I couldn't zoom in far enough to take a picture where the goats were visible, William had the genius idea to take a picture through the telescope!  So glad he brought his camera along because his was just small enough to fit inside the eye piece of the telescope.

These are the mud flats at our next stop, Beluga Point.  We waited here until about 30 minutes after the tide was supposed to come through.  The tide was obviously coming in when we left, so we thought maybe there wasn't a good wave this day.  The boys had fun running around and climbing rocks while were were here.

This is the view from our next stop, Bird Point.

We waited until 45 minutes after the wave was supposed to roll through here and it finally came!  It is the squiggly white line in the middle of this picture.  I wish we could have seen it at Beluga point because we were much closer to the water there.

10 on the 10th ~ November

1. Snow, snow, and more snow!  The snow has arrived and we have already gotten a ton!

2. We went trick-or-treating on base with our friends this year.  It was a lot of fun taking my "little zoo" around!  William was a zoo keeper, Ben was a lion, and Eli was an elephant.

3. We had parent/teacher conferences for both William and Benjamin.  They are both doing great and their teachers had nothing but good things to say!

4. We are back down to 7 hours and 42 minutes of sunlight.  The daylight savings change has really made it get dark early.

5. My current animal sighting count is 1 beaver, 3 mountain goats/Dahl sheep (they were too far away to determine which one they were), 2 bald eagles, 2 bears, 8 adult moose, and one baby moose.

6.  James finished his training to be an instructor pilot!  He came home last Saturday at 1AM.

7.  William's teacher approached me with the suggestion that he move up to second grade.  After talking with her about it we have decided to let him go to the second grade teacher for math until Christmas.  If that goes well, then he will be moved into the second grade full time after Christmas break.  I'm really nervous about it, but he is so smart and need to be doing harder work.

8. Don't forget to make a giant wish tomorrow at 11:11:11 on 11/11/11!

9.  William got a Nintendo DS for his 7th birthday (Ack!  When did he get so old?).  He and Ben are amazed at how good James is at playing his Super Mario Bothers game.  James keeps trying to tell them that he was playing Super Mario LONG before they were born.

10.  The new game system may have something to do with the boys wanting to do a Super Mario Bros theme for next years Halloween.  The good news is, I get to be the princess!

Project 52 - Week 34

Week 34 ~ August 21-27

This week we decided to check out a park near William's school.  It turned out to be mainly used for disc golf.  I was surprised at just how many people were there palying.

This is Peter's Creek.  The area we live in is called Peter's Creek.  I'm not sure it should be called a creek.  Looked more like a good sized river to me!  The waster was moving VERY fast and was quite loud!


Walking down the paths.

Taking a look at the river.  (Many of my first pictures are of the kid's backs because William was in a bad mood)

They loved playin g with the chains on the disc golf things.  (William got over his bad mood when they started playing with these)

New School Year

ETA: I am obviously still catching up.  These are from August when school really started.  :)

Time for a new school year!  William is in first grade this year and Ben is in Pre-K.  Ben is going to a preschool in Eagle River, so we have bit of a drive three days a week but I think he is really going to like it!