Wednesday was another rainy day in Anchorage. Lucky for us we'd planned to go to the Natural History Museum for the morning. It turned out to be a bit less exciting than the Anchorage Museum and Imaginarium we'd gone to on Monday. Rachel got excited about posing as an Eskimo:
and holding a dead fox:
but besides that she wasn't all that interested in the rest of the museum, besides the little kid play area at the back that had boxes full of rubber pieces, kind of like sand boxes, with shovels and dinosaur toys and such.
Here's the Eskimo Dad:
Annie, true to form, got excited any time she saw anything furry with eyes. She starts kicking her feet and breathing fast, and occasionally growls. It's pretty entertaining.
Jake and Rachel did manage to squeeze in a ride on a mammoth:
We headed back to Grandma and Grandpa's apartment for lunch, and when it was still mostly raining, we scrapped our plans for the afternoon, which was going to be either that bike ride we couldn't go on Monday because of the weather or a hike. When the rain let up for a little while we decided to go on a walk. Rachel, of course got to work on her favorite Alaskan pastime: dandelion picking.
We saw some pretty flowers, mostly blue bells and dandelions.
I did see lots of fireweed that was not yet in bloom and it reminded me of last time I was up in Alaska working near Denali in 2001 and all the beautiful pink fireweed flowers. It made me wish we were there a month from now when the fireweed will be pink and the blueberries will be ripe.
It started sprinkling again, but luckily we were already on our way back to the apartment, where we spent the rest of the afternoon playing:
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