We're Here!

We're here! Ed did real well. We'll know exactly how well by how late he sleeps tomorrow. We're about to fall asleep for the night and Ed has been out for an hour or so. Den says he's very excited to have reached his 50th state before 50.

As we were flying in, I began to realize what makes Alaska so spectacular, so far anyway, from the plane it was just mountain after mountain after mountain. As far as you could see. In the distance they were snow capped jagged peaks. In the foreground they were not as snow capped, but every bit as jagged. It's 1:00am our time.

Gave Den the SLR to take pictures out the window. Now this is a man who isn't a big picture taker and I wondered if he was going to smoke through a memory card in the 40 minute flight. He barely dropped the camera from his face. People were perring out in both directions, as I looked up at the rows in front of us, nearly all the heads were turned to the windows.

Ed fell asleep just as we rolled out to the rental car. Here he is before we put him in his porto-bed. The other is as we were flying into Sitka.

G'ma and G'pa OH get in tmr. We haven't decided what we'll do tmr or the next day, but there is plenty from which to chose. We'll have internet until we take the ferry on the 4th, then I'm thinking it will be at least 2 or 3 days of silence.