I wore drake out

Drake and I are at a pizza shop in Juneau. It's about 2 miles from home. We walked. What can I say, I'm getting trailer fever. The only thing that sucks about it is that I have to carry him home. 2 miles. What was I thinking? I was hoping it would wear him out, but...
Bryce has been in training for the last 2 days. He's not getting paid for it. Sweet. Thank God for the funenjoyment of unemployment. We also found out that if there is any sort of serious injury, we'll have to be flown to Seattle, so we have to work on getting health insurance. Great, that's only like $300/mo. Sweet. I haven't been too diligent at finding a daycare. It almost seems futile. What's the point of getting a job when daycare is $35/day?
Other than all this complaining, things are going well. Bryce got to fly an Astar yesterday. His excitement was overshadowed by his new boss's impatience. He's stoked he flew, but he's nervous about a million other things. I keep telling him he's a kick butt pilot and he should just relax.
Drake is already over the glacier. When I suggest going to check it out, he's like, "No, not the glaaaaacier!" We went to the skate park here yesterday. It's sick! They've got a nice 4 foot halfpipe with an extension. They had some tabletops set up too. Drake was rolling down the pyramids all by himself. He was stoked. He wanted to roll down the huge 15 foot wedge on his stomach. What a frankenberry! I was skating the ramp and he tells me "Just drop in Mom." What a frankenberry.
So despite the frustrations, we're having fun and sticking together. We'll survive this crazy adventure, and if we don't atleast we'll all be crazy together.

We live in a van down by the river

Almost. We live in a trailer down by the channel. (Gastineau Channel) We're on Douglas island. We finally got a place on our anniversary, which was Wednesday, the 16th. It was funny when we were signing the rental agreement and Bryce was like, "What's the date today?" He was so busted. We've just been getting moved in. We bought a 13 inch tv. It's pretty sweet. Life in the trailer has been different. Drake keeps saying "I miss my home in Utah." Bryce and I agree with him. Bryce just keeps reminding us it's only for 6 months.

Bryce went in for his first day of training today. I think it's kindof an informal thing, considering tonight they're having a bonfire. Monday is his real first day of training. After we dropped him off, we came up to the Mendenhall Glacier. There's an Earth Day event up here. Is it Earth Day? The Glacier is so beautiful. One can't imagine how awe-inspiring and breathtaking this part of the country is. When I see pictures of Alaska, I'm always like, "Wow, how beautiful." Let me tell you, no camera can capture the true and entire "picture". The wildlife is so plentiful. We see Golden and Bald Eagles just chillin all over the place. It's cool. Everyone has to make sure they lock their garbage cans so the bears don't get it. Even downtown. Crazy. The only animals I don't like here are the damn ravens or crows or whatever. They're freaking huge and annoying. I know I'm kindof a dork, but the trees and plants here are so beautiful too. On the way up and now that we're here I'm always wondering what type of pine tree that is or how that fragile looking flower can survive in this cold, constantly changing weather.

Juneau itself is pretty dirty and not taken care of. The part where the cruise ship passengers hang out is nice, but the rest of it is so gross. You'd think that being in such beautiful surroundings would encourage people who live here to keep the town kept up. It kindof reminds me of Pittsburgh. The homes downtown are really close together and on narrow, winding streets.

Hopefully they'll figure out, and in the meantime, I'll help out by keeping our trailer and trailer park clean. ;)

Check out the van down by the river: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2897606002265599151&q=van%20down%20by%20the%20river&hl=en

Still on the hunt

We're still hunting for a home in Juneau. We have some promising leads, but half are ghetto and the other half are expensive. Yes, we're opting for the ones that are a little more expensive. (I know, what a shocker huh, for those of you that know how cheap I am.) We've been staying in the Juneau hostel (http://www.juneauhostel.net/). It's actually very nice. The hosts have a 3 year old that Drake runs around with. I asked Drake what he'd like to say to everyone that reads the blog. He says "Hi". That's it. We drove around for freaking ever today, looking for a place to live. It was horrible. I'm really getting crabby, I feel bad for Bryce and Drake. We went to this awesome place for dinner. Their pizza was rockin! I think I'm going to get a job there. I already have another job lined up, but this one is more accomodating to our schedules. So the last two days have been horrible, and I've been exhausted every night, so no blog. Too bad, so sad. But, yes, we're here, we're stoked, and we're gonna have a good time! p.s. I love Juneau. p.p.s. Yes the pics of the goat and buffalo are real and taken directly from the Jeep.

We made it...

Here are some photos from the journey, sorry we missed a few days of posting. we are currently looking for a rental in Juneau. These pics are from the alcan... and yes that is a giant beaver.