wahoo!
i would like to say that i never thought that alaska would be windy. it is. very windy.
the other day we played tag in a large public park thingamy. i smacked my head and got bruises in many places. it was a fantastic game.
earlier in the day we had cleaned and organized the woelfel family garage-- well some of it, the thing is huge. i organized the largest tool box i have ever seen and found a really sweet set of chisels i plan on playing with soon.
then we went to an old abandoned mine. there were some walkways and a lot of collapsed old buildings. it is now a state park site or something but we had a lot of fun. there was a small hike where we got to see all of the areas of it-- it was founded sometime in the 30s and continued production of gold until sometime around 1947.
yesterday we drove to the edge of the denali park and tried to see mount mckinnley. it was too cloudy around the mountain. i kept looking and thinking "i don't get what we can't see. there are mountains and they don't look that spectacular." then they drew my attention to a sign (where i was promptly glad i hadn't opened my mouth on my thoughts) which had a picture of a mt mckinnley. in frount of it was what looked like foothill mountains-- a range about half as tall. that was what we could see. they looked like normal mountains, nothing to sneeze at but about what i was used too. they were decently large. mckinnley is huge.
alaskans also seem to be a little overly proud of the spiffiness of there mountains. they keep saying that theirs are more impressive and larger and more majestic and are very proud of the glacial cut that most of them have.
i have given up politely telling them that while their mountains may seem pointier the rockies are nothing to sniff at. some of them are very impressive yes, so are many of the rockies, we also have pointy mountains and glacial cut mountains and volcanos and high mountain towns. we have mountains that are awing to look at and to look off of. they are not the only people with nice mountains.
and bozeman is at a higher elevation than they are so niner niner boo boo. (had to throw that in)
that is all for now.
the other day we played tag in a large public park thingamy. i smacked my head and got bruises in many places. it was a fantastic game.
earlier in the day we had cleaned and organized the woelfel family garage-- well some of it, the thing is huge. i organized the largest tool box i have ever seen and found a really sweet set of chisels i plan on playing with soon.
then we went to an old abandoned mine. there were some walkways and a lot of collapsed old buildings. it is now a state park site or something but we had a lot of fun. there was a small hike where we got to see all of the areas of it-- it was founded sometime in the 30s and continued production of gold until sometime around 1947.
yesterday we drove to the edge of the denali park and tried to see mount mckinnley. it was too cloudy around the mountain. i kept looking and thinking "i don't get what we can't see. there are mountains and they don't look that spectacular." then they drew my attention to a sign (where i was promptly glad i hadn't opened my mouth on my thoughts) which had a picture of a mt mckinnley. in frount of it was what looked like foothill mountains-- a range about half as tall. that was what we could see. they looked like normal mountains, nothing to sneeze at but about what i was used too. they were decently large. mckinnley is huge.
alaskans also seem to be a little overly proud of the spiffiness of there mountains. they keep saying that theirs are more impressive and larger and more majestic and are very proud of the glacial cut that most of them have.
i have given up politely telling them that while their mountains may seem pointier the rockies are nothing to sniff at. some of them are very impressive yes, so are many of the rockies, we also have pointy mountains and glacial cut mountains and volcanos and high mountain towns. we have mountains that are awing to look at and to look off of. they are not the only people with nice mountains.
and bozeman is at a higher elevation than they are so niner niner boo boo. (had to throw that in)
that is all for now.
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