The term for telling the dogs to pull forward is, “alright!” Meryl especially enjoyed giving the call:)

Soldotna Dairy Queen stop on the drive to Homer! Once the only Dairy Queen in the state, hours from Anchorage, always a stop regardless:)

Sasha, Mark, and Lainie arrived today! Why not sightsee to the top of the mountain and eat dinner with a view? (The kids had yet to eat ‘inside’ a restaurant since the pandemic began, what could go wrong?)

Fresh air with a heavy hand of minerality. So maybe we have a bit longer until they’re ready for multi-course meals:) Someday, endurance will get them to dessert. For now, not a bad place to rock out.

Snow plow, snow balls, snow ball throwing, SNOW!

Bakery and a bike rack, what more can you ask for?

Literally! We were stuck here for a while. Playgrounding yet again:) Turns out Elderberry Park has this cool pulley set-up to bring sand upwards to then pour into various PVC pipes outwards.

Swinging and watching the trains go by. Also, wildfire smoke blew into town today. It’s been a hot and dry start to the summer up here and the fires are already extensive.

The sands of time these days:)

I didn’t catch the whole course, but Meryl found herself squeezing into the front at the finish!