The Last Few Days...23

Travis and a sea otter (3)
"Elephant Rock" and my parents in their kayak (3)
A silly picture :)  (3)
View on Kayak Trip (3)
All the families in the Backroads group(1)
Holly, erin, River guide, Mom and Dad(1)
Dad me and anne in our river gear!(1)

(1) Alright back to July 22: We woke up early and got right on the road for a rafting trip on the river. Our tour guide was awesome and while we were out there we saw tons of eagles and and 5 bears...yeah thats right 5 brown bears all together, just lounging around in and around the river. It was great :) After I bought some really cool earrings that are made from a bonsai tree. After that we went on a 5 mile hike (and kinda run on the way back) but at the end of the hike there was a waterfall that had salmon trying to swim up it... straight Discovery Channel! 

(2) July 23

I was crazy today and woke up early to go on a 4 mile run with Holly, Erin, Travis, Nathan, and Kendall. It was so beautiful out though and definitely worth it. Then packed up in our buses for a 2 1/2 hour bus ride to a park in Homer. Heres where the real craziness begins... I did a 32 mile bike ride and there was a lot of up hill areas...only 6 people out of the whole group did the 32. It was really hard but the views were AMAZING and it felt good to work that hard and succeed. We ended at our hotel on Homer Spit. (I forgot to mention that we found an alive starfish on the road while we were biking in the mountains ...so we put it in a bag with water and let it loose in the ocean later! ) Later we went and ate dinner "down town" and saw Captain Jonathan from the Discovery Channel show, "The Deadliest Catch". We talked with him for a while! Christian was super pumped, because he really likes that show. We checked out the shops too and I found a sweet wool sweater to keep me warm in NZ. (I also didn't really have my camera today...sorry)

(3) Today July 24

We woke up and went out for a sea kayak trip around an island near Homer. We took these little boats out to the island then went halfway and stopped for lunch. Right before lunch 2 boys tipped in the water...whoops! Lunch was great tho. Then back on to our kayaks for the rest of the island. Throughout the trip we saw a lot of wildlife: eagles, otters, jellyfish, anemone, and seals. All the guides and boat drivers were awesome too. Tonite is kinda our farewell dinner. It went so fast. Im off to NZ soooo soon. yipes, keep praying!