Alaska Trip - Saturday and Sunday

Last week we went to Anchorage to visit Mom and Dad who are serving a mission up in the frozen white North. We took a lot of pictures. So we'll have to post them in groups.

Saturday
Saturday (June 12th) we finally went to visit my Mom and Dad in Anchorage Alaska. We drove to Phoenix early Saturday morning and then we flew (on Alaskan Air, not US Airways) from Phoenix to Seattle and from Seattle to Anchorage. The girls did really well for such a long time sitting in one place. We had a two or so hour layover in Seattle where we had lunch and walked around. We arrived late Saturday night and Mom and Dad met us at the airport while we rented a car. We followed them from the airport to their apartment and had dinner and went to bed.

Sunday
We went to church with Mom and Dad. Rachel was apprehensive about attending Primary in a strange new place, but she was able to calm down and had a good time as the only girl in a class full of boys.
After church, we decided to take some pictures with Mom and Dad while the girls were dressed up.

My parents' apartment is close to an elementary school, so we took the girls on a walk and went to play on the playground. Rachel made an important discovery on our walk: Anchorage is covered in dandelions! She was so excited to pick flower after flower. She gave them to Grandma and Grandpa when we got back from the playground and Grandma put them in a vase on the table.


The first thing we played on was the swings. Annie and Daddy had a good time and Rachel decided to stop collecting dandelions and join us.


The playground equipment included a tunnel and Annie was so excited to be inside of it!


Eventually, Rachel decided to join her. You can also see Daddy at the far end of the tunnel.

Grandma and Grandpa had stocked up on some fun surprises for the girls which they gave out during the week, the first one being this bib Annie was wearing with a polar bear on it which said, "Top of the food chain, Alaska."

After a few rounds on the slides, we went back to Mom and Dad's place for dinner and to give Grandma and Grandpa their flowers.

It was nice to have some time to hang out with Grandma and Grandpa before their duty called them back to work at the mission office during the week. While they worked we played. More to come on our fun adventures during the week...