chuckles and the birthday girls

chuckles, bonzai, and adam

getting ready for the ride of our lives

the moment i fell in love again with sitka, i felt like i was in a good dream

team del sol alaska

the sitka gang, and how i love those guys.

pretty cute if you ask me

it's always like this in sitka...

playing on the see saw

us being extra tough in our xtratufs

i wish i could claim this one, bon's foot against a fresh bear paw print in the sand

best birthday suprise ever.

thumbs up for a good time, and indeed we had ourselves a pretty good time.  chuck, our landlord who also owns a cool knife and bizaar shop up the street from us took us out for a scenic boat ride and some four wheeling to the north shore of kruzof island.  it was completely breath taking.  we started up this winding path covered in dark black bear scat (from the berries of course) we hit some wide open fields where bear spotting is a norm but we didn't spot any this time, we continued to machine our way through a mossy oak labrynth to find the beautiful beach break through the canopy of trees and take our breath away.  i felt like i was in narnia on the beaches of new zealand, for a second i even daydreamed i was there.  it was amazing, the boys cruised off on the quads up and down the beach found a hammock to lay in, and explored while bon, chuck and i chatted away and got some teeter tottering in.  we all zipped along the beach back into a quiet cove and had a little rest and ate some munchies.  i even drank a victory dr pepper at the top of the summit (i've been off caffiene for 4 months) and it tasted darn good.  we ended the night with some van winkles, squeaky the water boy, and of course a birthday peanut butter bombe.  22 feels just right to me.  xoxo.