Anchorage AK August 28

Arrived Achorage 8:45pm on the 27th. Ted picked me up went to his house. Talked until late and went to bed.

August 28. Got up, played with dogs, threw balls. Ted and I went to Snow City Cafe for breakfast and the Alaska Native Heritage Museum in the Wells Fargo Building, that was created by the Alaska Bank president somebody Rasmussen and then when Wells Fargo bought the bank they kept the museum and the Rasmussen Foundation and Rasmussen family donated more art and money to the Anchorage Museum. Went downtown again and went to the store that sells premade Qiviut items and looked at those then went to to the Woolly Mammoth yarn store and bought some very very very very very expensive Qiviut yarn that I will use to knit some mittens. Also bought another skein that I sort of couldn't resist because it was so beautiful and I was on vacation spending money.

Lady working in yarn store was from Minnesota. Moved there in 1975 when her husband was transferred for BN railroad and then they were going to transfer him a few years later to someplace Texas and they didn't want to go there and stayed in Alaska. Lots of Minnesotans in Alaska. Here's maybe why, related to the Matanuska Colony?

Ted didn't feel well and left me downtown and went home to see about getting pre-op EKG. Turns out he was a bit dehydrated.

I wandered around and did two geocaches and went to the Anchorage Museum. Art, Smithsonian exhibits, lost Franklin expedition, etc. Ted picked me up at 4:30 and we went to the airplane lake and had a drink and watched planes, then drove around a bit until we went to meet Cathy, Kirsten, Shirley, and Ivory at noisy and hot restaurant. Was great to see them and they were like normal and it was like we hadn't not seen each other in years and years although much has changed for them all.

Went home, went to bed. We were tired.