I got an awesome bike, man!

The sun is out! We're taking full advantage of it. I found myself a bike on Saturday. First garage sale we went to. It's an old specialized hardrock. It's pretty sweet. We put Drake's kiddie carrier on it and took some test rides around the trailer court. We went fishing at Eagle Beach. I'll put pics on. Other than that, I'm just trying to decide if I want a job or not. It would probably be a good thing. It will just be difficult riding my bike to work, or organizing the commute with the jeep. I don't know. Drake is into spelling words. They sound a little like this "a-a-t-a-a-t-a-a-b-u-h-a." He says that spells nap time. The whole time I ride my bike, he says "Whee". And "Look at the beautiful nature mom!" Here's some pics. The first one is when Bryce, Drake and I drove up to the ski resort. I think it's called EagleCrest. It was crazy. One lift. There were tons of people hiking the day we went there. It had just dumped a foot or more. The reason Drake's not in the pic is because he was asleep in the car. The second pic is us riding our bikes around the block. The third pic is Drake helping me cook. He loves to help out. He knows the drill. Which knives he can use, washing his hands, etc. He can chop stuff so well that I actually use it in our meals. The fourth pic is him when we went to Eagle Beach. We wanted to go fishing. We ended up going on a little hike, then had a picnic. Yogi Bear did not attend, thank God. The last pic is me on my sweet new ride! I know you're all jealous.

Bryce is at work. He's expecting a 12 hour day today. Good times. Drake and I are going to go to some yard sales to try to find me a bike. It's too expensive to be driving around all the time. Gas is $3.75/gallon. Ouch.
Drake is making friends in the trailer park. Of course they're all older than him, but I think he prefers it that way. He was hanging out with them yesterday and he was getting bullied by a little girl. He was trying to be nice and avoid her, but finally he got pissed. I had to go out and tell him if he fought, he'd have to come inside. It's so crazy being a parent. I'm out there with my hands on my hips being authoritative. It's just laughable to me.
Anyway, we're enjoying AK as much as possible. Going to the beach and hiking (When I feel comfortable enough to. I'm afraid of going by myself. I don't want to run into a bear or some wierd person.)
Take care everyone!

Finally a day off! I got to do a few glacier tours so far this week, they went well and the tips are nice. I have today and tomorrow off then the tours pick up this weekend. We went to eagle beach today to take Drake fishing, he fished for about 3 minutes and then said he was done. Got to wheel the jeep around a little but there is a lot of snow on the wheelin trails so we had to be careful. Didn't want to get stuck in bear country. Beautiful day here in ak, hope everyone is doing well.

Hello Everyone, I passed my 135 checkride yesterday, after an intense week of training. I start flying tours on saturday. These are some pics that I have taken over the last week and a half. On saturday night we fed 10+ eagles, pretty cool stuff, there was a seal playing in the river behind the house we were feeding the eagles at, but i couldnt get a shot of him. Anyway, I now have to learn all about the glaciers b/c I will be the tour guide as well. I will be taking tourists from the airport to the Herbert glacier, hiking around with them for 20 mins and then flying them back to the airport. we also transport workers to the numerous gold mines in the area and workers for the repeater stations on top of the mountains. Definately the most intense flying that I have done. there is a pic of one of the helipads we take workers to, and one of the crew of us up here, hope everyone is doing well. Drake really missess utah, he always talks about Allie and Tailie and Connor and Taylor. Sorry I havent been answering my phone, I am at work from 6 am to 7pm, and dont have alot of time to talk. Enjoy the pics, cheers