post-thumb

2010 alaska

Day 9: Shelvin, Minnesota

Okay, so the town is really Shevlin, not Shelvin, but we got a good chuckle out of this.  Scott thought it said Shelvin and said his dad should move there.  Don is a super duper shelver.  He is so much of a shelf maker that the new owner of his old home, which happens to be in our neighborhood, asked Scott what was with all of the shelves.  Every nook and crany is filled with them.  He is very organized and everything has a place.  Well, sometimes a few of them.  Wendy, Scott’s mom, teases that some days he puts her under W for Wendy, M for Meme, or  W for wife.

read more
post-thumb

2010 alaska

Day 8: Thursday, June 10th: The Shower

Ahhhh……Can you hear me back in Illinois?  My shower was that good.  I haven’t had a shower since Day 3.  Brooke fell asleep on a scenic driving tour of the Mississippi headwaters or Itasca Park.  That was at about 5 pm.  She slept until 8 pm.  I only know this because Scott told me so.  I wasn’t there because he said the most beautiful words during dinner, “you can take a shower all by yourself if you want to.”

read more
post-thumb

2010 alaska

Day 7: Wednesday, June 9th - Continued

We tag teamed again today.  Scott stayed with sleeping Cody and I took Brooke on a several hour tour of a Forest History Center in Grand Rapids, MN.  Cody was not in same shape I left him when I returned, but we’ll get to that later…

read more
post-thumb

2010 alaska

Day 7: Wednesday, June 9th: Greer Lake Campground to

Cody slept in until 6:15 and Brooke slept until 8:00.  The Cody separation technique is working, at least on the two mornings that Scott stayed with Brooke.  I get to potentially sleep in tomorrow.  We’ll see what happens…  Of course sleep in is a relative term considering our Minnesota rooster greeted us with a hearty Good Morning at 4 am again.  We thought someone at the campground on Monday night was playing with a bird call.  There was no way such a ridiculous sounding bird really existed.  Turns out since there was no one else at our campground last night that such a bird must really exist.  He only makes noise at around 10 pm and 4 am.  We will try to get a recording of the crazy bird.

read more
post-thumb

2010 alaska

Bug catcher Brooke

Brooke loves catching and examining the creatures which crawl upon the tent. This morning we found a slug and three caterpillars. Now if we can only convince her to let them go :)

read more
post-thumb

2010 alaska

Day 6: Tuesday, June 8th: Rain, rain….

The beautiful sunrise from yesterday morning is hiding behind gigantic storm clouds today.  Everyone, including Cody, fell asleep shortly before ten last night.  At least Cody postponed his official wake up until 6:45.  Scott took Cody into the van this morning while Brooke woke up.  Yesterday this worked beautifully.  Brooke and Scott didn’t emerge from the tent until 8:15.  It took them a little while to wrap up the tent mats and sleeping bags, but they basically had three hours extra sleep past Cody’s 5 am wake up call.

read more