Some pretty pictures and a funny story!

Here are some pictures from my recent travels! The one above and below are from the Portage Lake trip we went on. It was a really great day and I liked the iceberg cause if you look at it long enough it looks like a bird sitting on the ice--just proves how artistic mother nature truly is!

This is Curtis--we have been paralleling for awhile now--that means that we are on the same tour with two groups and just follow each other around. We are on our second 10 day tour and think we will be doing the next tour together as well--we are acting like an old married couple--it's been fun though. Just friends for those of you who may be wondering.

We are on the Yukon Queen boat coming from Dawson City to Eagle, Ak and saw a bear which doesn't normally happen so of course I took pictures of this cute and cuddly bear. He was swimming across the river (the Yukon) and when he went of the side a bit he stopped then pulled a fish out of a hole or something then carried it up the rest of the way.
This is 5 Finger rapids which is on the way from Whitehorse to Dawson City. It's a pretty great day so I decided to do my group pic there so meet one of my favorite groups.
Ok now for the FUNNY story...the first thing I thought was you know whats funnier then seeing someone fall is watching a fat person fall!!--so we got into the hotel in Fairbanks and I run inside to drop off my bags to get ready to hand out the key packets. I start to walk away from my bags and don't realize the that my bags strap is still wrapped around my ankle and I go down HARD!! I went down on my one knee then cont. to fall on my face. Luckily my guests didn't see me except for two of them and unfortunately everyone else in the lobby saw me including some of Curtis's group who all of course ran over to me asking how I was and I just said I was find and didn't want to talk about it!! LOL it was pretty funny not to mention so humiliating but hey what can you do. Anyway this is my knee--I iced it last night cause it was pretty swollen. Oh well there's my funny story of the day!
Alright well thats it for now--have a glorious day!

What a slacker I am

So it's August 1 and I thought I would greet the new month with my monthly post. LOL Well thats what it appears I have been doing. I just don't ever have anything exciting to say--plus I'm on facebook too so anyway enough about that. Ok whats new....

Miles and Becky are having a BOY!!!! I am so excited for them--it was pretty funny when they found out they were expecting Brayden said don't worry about having it if it's not a boy! Or something like that and well he got his wish. They are in SLC right now and hope they are having a great time.

Nothing new with me--just working a ton and enjoying it most of the time. My tours have been going really well so far and I will be busy for the rest of the summer so thats good. I am still working on what I will be doing this winter and will give an update if I ever make up my mind. Right now the options are...Alaska (yikes--upside being there when the baby is born and being able to see family more often), NYC (applying for a job where I would be able to use my Russian and possilbly travel over there), SLC (don't want Sadie to feel left out, but it's not likely :), and California (cause - well I have always thought it would be nice to live somewhere warm), and last but not least Texas-- anyway I need to go where there's work!

Well I have a few more hours of sitting here at the Westmark hotel in Fairbanks unless the rest of my group miraculously shows up then I can go home. There are so many fires going on right now I smell like I've been sitting around a campfire. I am hoping it goes away soon cause my guests want to be able to see the sights! But hey what can you do. Thats it for now!