Wednesday, we were up early but it does not get daylight until about 830a so we exercised, destroyed USA Today and the local Anchorage paper and then headed towards Seward. Beautiful drive of about 3 hours through the Turnagain Arm area and lots of snow covered mountains. We saw a few moose on the drive down and seals and bald eagles in Seward. Good conversation with one of the locals telling us about the fishing travails
in the area. Halibut was just in season and expensive! On the ride back we stopped at an animal refuge and saw bison, bears, bear cubs, reindeer, moose and various other animals. Good times!
Thursday morning we woke to snow that all totaled probably 4.5-5 inches. Enough to shut down most southern cities for a couple of days but just a "dusting" as they called in Anchorage. It did not slow them down a bit. We watched alot of NCAA March Madness both Thursday and Friday. We got out and did a little trip to Wasilla, saw the Iditarod starting point, checked out Sarah Palin's house, drove to a ski resort for the view of Mt. McKinley and Friday night began the Youth Evangelism Conference and my buddy Jeff Wallace did a great job of sharing the Word. I taught sessions on Saturday and so enjoyed being with the youth leaders from Alaska. Great people who love God and love students. Sunday consisted of church in the am, more basketball, some rest and packing for the return trip home.
So much fun to spend time with my brother. He is a great guy that God is obviously using to make a difference in people's life and in my life this past week. The picture above is a shot of us yesterday as we were parting ways in MSP as he headed to Kansas City and I flew towards Nashville. Great times with a great brother.
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